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Hertz Chairman Frank Olson calls the practice "stupid and destructive," but his company is doing it. National Car Rental President Bemiss Rolfs admits that the strategy is "idiotic," but his firm is going along too. Both Hertz, the No. 1 rental-car company, and National, No. 3, have been "dragged kicking and screaming," as Olson puts it, into a gigantic giveaway game started by No. 2, Avis, last September. The giants of the rental-car business are courting customers with a growing array of gifts, from toy koala bears to vacations at resort hotels. This costly contest comes...
After some reflection, Lucero came around. "I'll agree with you. It was a stupid decision." Levitas harbored darker suspicions about the shredders: "I have in formation that they were heavily used at night and on the weekends. Anyone who believes that all this was done by a GS 7 [clerk] still believes in the tooth fairy...
...psychiatrist who becomes as batty and sick as most of his patients is filled with the actor's typical English bawdiness. His movements and lines seem overly staged, however, especially a clumsy sequence which places the doctor in Chloe's shower. Moore specializes in nincompoop bumbling, so such inevitably stupid scenes crop up frequently. One dinner Benjamin has with the board of psychiatrists contains a few funny lines, but the characters speaking them--including the victimized doctor--come across as inanely one-dimensional...
...turns in the plot occur with mechanical regularity and at dizzying speed. The cheapening effect they produce is heightened by tired cliches--false hair which falls off, embarrassing its owner; the villain's stupid bodyguard who is anxious for bloody 'action': the blonde who turns out to be not so very dumb. And neither the direction nor the performance adds anything to make these standard gags more palatable...
...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...