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Article: The Panther's in the Pink.(Now Playing: Film reviews, diamonds to dross)(Pink Panther)(Movie review)
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- The American Enterprise
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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The Pink Panther movies were never known for their sophistication. In fact, sophistication--particularly of the snobby, artifical European variety--was always one of their main satirical targets.
That tradition thankfully continues in Steve Martin's The Pink Panther, a gleefully unsophisticated farce that nicely captures the ramshackle irreverence of the previous installments. Any movie that lampoons the Smart car is not trying to impress the beautiful people. (The scene in which Martin's inept Inspector Clouseau has difficulty parallel parking his Smart car in a gargantuan open space is one of this new picture's many absurd laughs.)
The overwhelmingly ...
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