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...city, she was predictably the target of potshots from the right. The local political left, of course, was generally pleased with the antigun crusade of the moderate mayor. But not all factions on the left: more determinedly upset than any of the conservative gun groups was the White Panther Party, a ragtag tribe of about a dozen communards encamped in an electric-blue town house in-yes-the Haight-Ashbury district. The Panthers were formed in the 1960s, and they still adhere to a position popular with the far left in that frenzied time: revolutionaries need weapons...
Henning flew through the air, turned up side down and sideways and floated under an arch, dispelling any suspicions of guy wires. Women were levitated, dismembered and recombined. As the audience watched, Merlin disappeared, leaving only his costume behind. In a narrow cage, a panther turned into a chorine. A white horse vanished into thick air and reappeared on command All the while, the plot frantically expanded to accommodate the new effects...
...WAIT, YOU SAY, How come everybody's knocking this film? A legitimate question. There are three types of criticisms that have been leveled at The Trail of the Pink panther. They're all wrong. Here's why, in increasing order of frequency...
...movie simply isn't funny. This is the same old pretentious, anti-anti-intellectual garbage that a small coterie of snooty brie-toting critics have been shovelling out ever since the initial Pink Panther, and it's as stupid now as it ever was. Just because a movie is all slapstick and zero social commentary doesn't mean it can't be uproariously funny. So you want relevance? Trail of the Pink Panther is actually a symbolic indictment of supply-side economics during a recession-plagued post-industrial era. Satisfied...
...swung around--not just out of ordinary curiosity, but almost as if, in some bizarre perversion of Sensurround. Sellers had survived and Inspector Clouseau had fallen through our ceiling after yet another battle with Cato. Soon. Blake Edwards is going to unveil a sixth sequel. Curse of the Pink Panther, and I, for one, am going to be watching the ceiling...