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Kondom des Grauens (1996)
sexy and hysterical
I saw this film last night on the LOGO network. As I suppose I should have expected, the show ran longer than the time LOGO had alloted for it, so I didn't get to see the whole thing -- my DVR cut it off early. I have to say, nevertheless, that I was having a great time watching it! The notion of killer condoms terrorizing New Yorkers is just too damned funny! The effects are hokey to the point of ridiculous -- the condoms are alternately cute and muppety or terrifyingly huge and ferocious. Too silly. The performance of the lead character, a a police Inspector, is actually quite good. He plays a rough-hewn gay cop looking for love in all the wrong places. His friend Bob (Bobette) is a former cop turned drag queen. And the love of the Inspector's life is -- well, you'll just have to see for yourself. All of this, plus an international conspiracy to purify mankind...
Justine: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997)
unbelievable
I saw this film on television in the summer of 2004 while in Oaxaca, Mexico. Soft porn at its most ridiculous. The writer and director obviously thought that they were on to something with the sexual escapades of a college ingénue and her professor, but they should have thought a little longer and harder... The film makes (many) references to other Justine films, so I guess someone has been supporting this franchise. The "plot" is idiotic -- sort of a girl's pornographic "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark", and yet it still manages to be convoluted. Impressive. You will see a lot of Justine and her breasts, and you'll even see some unseemly sex scenes, but your view of the professor seems to have been sanitized.
Happy viewing? I don't *think* so.
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
the funniest movie ever?
I saw this movie in 1975 at the theater, and I am still enjoying it twenty-nine years later. It is the funniest of the Pink Panther films by far. The original Pink Panther flick, starring David Niven, was a dud, but this film got the formula precisely right. Sellers as the bumbling Clousseau was right on target, and Kato was never funnier. Herbert Lom, as Chief Inspector Dreyfuss, has never received the acclaim he deserved for his performance as the man driven insane by Clousseau's antics. And, alone among the PP films, this one has a fair plot, involving the Lord and Lady Litton. Catherine Schell, as Lady Litton, is hysterical, as she is unable to restrain her genuine laughter at many of Sellers's greatest comic moments.