[Boomer]

Just returned from Pink Panther 2. Slapstick and great lines, too. That's my idea of a perfect combination.

I have been a Steve Martin fan for a really long time, since the King Tut and Wild and Crazy Guys days. And throw in John Cleese and Lily Tomlin and it just gets better.

Lilly Tomlin plays Mrs. Berenger who has been hired to make sure everyone maintains political correctness and appropriate behavior in the office. Inspector Clouseau is impossible for her. She finally tells him that he is perhaps the biggest nitwit she has ever encountered. The stuff he sees when she gives him the Rorschach inkblot test is really funny, though quite politically incorrect. Lily Tomlin is wearing her hair in sort of an Ernestine style, too, which makes her even funnier, as she plays completely straight-faced off Steve Martin. The Inspector just does not get what she is trying to teach him. They are great together.

And the rest of the movie is funny, too. Well, I thought so anyway. Slapstick and great lines. That's all I need to make me laugh. One or the other. Both -- even better.

I liked the first Pink Panther Steve Martin did, but this one, I think, is a lot better.

And Henry Mancini is still playing that tune.

Boomer