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(Hopefully) daily ramblings from the hazy mind of Hasief Ardiasyah

Monday, April 12, 2004

Laziness of the Pink Panther 

Got a couple of text messages to remind me that my work is due, and I still haven't done anywhere near 10 percent of it. Yikes. In typical fashion, instead of getting down to it, I ended up watching three (actually two and a half) Pink Panther movies on the MGM Channel. It's the Pink Panther's 40th anniversary, you see, so the movies are part of the channel's featured viewing for this month. Plus Blake Edwards' appearance on the Oscars got my curiosity going, so it all just fell into place.

Anyway, the movies were surprisingly risque. I guess I associate too much with the cartoon, which as it turns out has absolutely nothing to do with the movies - apart from the animated opening and closing sequences. Probably just playing off the whole 60s-70s vibe.

I think my favourite was Revenge Of The Pink Panther, 'cos of Cato getting more screen time and the plot was more down-to-earth than The Pink Panther Strikes Back (vanishing laser beam? Ugh.). They're going to make a prequel set for release next year, starring Steve Martin as Clouseau. But no Cato, just some French equivalent named Ponton, to be played by Jean Reno. I'd guess it's a political correctness thing, or maybe Clouseau just hadn't met Cato yet (this is a prequel, after all). Anyway, given the negativity from what I've read about the post-Peter Sellers franchise, here's hoping this movie will actually be decent.
posted by Hasief  # 4/12/2004 01:16:00 am
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