Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Melodrama of love and death...
...that he wishes he could be sorry for what he has done it really seems as if someone is forcing Teddy to act the way he does. The scene in which Teddy directs Ryder to gallop around the restaurant like a cowboy and threatens to force him to make love to Angel on the counter while calling the terrified boy a "fag" and "queer," is psychic and physical torture reminiscent of the rape in Deliverance...
...pulling up their Cadillac for a meal. Richard is cool, successful and wealthy, everything Red Ryder wishes he were and is not. Clarisse is a concert violinist with an $11,000 violin which Richard has bought for her, more to ensure her dependence on him than to show his love. At first, she is little more than an extension of Richard, he gets her everything he thinks she wants without listening to a word from...
...when he is smallest, and Clouseau's oblivious, unfazed determination is the perfect vehicle for him. But whenever these little men become romantic, as in Edwards' The Party or Strikes Again, Sellers begins to take himself more seriously (his narcissism, unfortunately, bleeds through even when these characters fumble their love-making attempts), and in Strikes Again he lost his timing and embarrassed himself. Edwards was lampooning Bond movies that time, and everything--including Sellers--was blown up to twice its size. Only the basic material remained thin, and Edwards stretched it until it snapped...
...look, the movie itself is pretty irrelevant. This is what you do: take someone you love or like a lot out to dinner on a Friday or Saturday night. Have a modest meal--some medium-priced seafood, perhaps (lobster is okay if you can afford it)--and a carafe of Chablis. Don't overdo it: you should emerge a wee bit sloshed and pleasurably filled. Skip dessert (that's the movie). Then go see Revenge of the Pink Panther. Make sure the movie theater is filled (there's nothing more depressing than watching a Panther movie in an empty theater...