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...Trail of the Pink Panther works surprisingly well. The first half of the film--in which Clouseau jaunts around England and France, wreaking havoc on two countries that already have more problems than they know how to handle--proves once again that the versatile Sellers was the funniest comedian...
...Indian sidekick you begin to wonder how Eddie Murphy, the star of Saturday Night Live, will fit into the serious plot. 48 Hours is obviously not Animal House. But then again, Eddie Murphy is not Steve Martin. Eddie Murphy is first and foremost a character actor; his funniest skits on the TV show are when he becomes Buckwheat, or a stereotyped bad dude. In 48 Hours, he checks the manta of Saturday Night Live and straightforwardly portrays a cool guy with a good sense of humor. He injects a gritty comic relief without destroying all the tension built...
Some of the funniest, most touching scenes are when the guys realize that there's some kind of a world out there, outside of Baltimore. They see a Bergman film and struggle with the symbolism. "I've been to Atlantic City hundreds of times, and I've never seen death walking on the beach," one of them says, but even if they seem a bit slow at times, one can almost feel them growing up all the same. When Boogie and Eddie are driving along and meet up with a suave, sophisticated horseback rider, who's the kind of self...
...cocaine, although it would seem somewhat destructive to have him advocating its use. If he is against it, his message is too subtle. If, however, we simply take Pryor at face value and don't worry about what he is trying to say, he is still one of the funniest comedians now working...
...elusiveness of view-point. If it seems at times to mock the absurdities of love--Matt exclaims of a wall the fathers built between the lovers' houses, "they built it ages ago... last month"--in the end, it reaffirms a sort of worldly-wise romanticism. In one of the funniest numbers of the play, El Gallo shows Luisa the splendors of the world, and gives her a mask to wear whenever a fire or assault mars the picture. Such sarcastic images continually surface whenever the play's world-view seems a little too rosy...