The Pink Panther...

There is something deliciously debauched and debonair about the Pink Panther in the cartoons. I am always reminded of Deam Martin when I see the big pink cat. I never saw the Pink Panther cartoons as a child, but I have recently started watching them, and they aren't children's cartoons as far as I can tell. Maybe not adult in the same sense as say Fritz the Cat, but in no way do I think your average 7-year-old would get the humour.

There is something decidedly sexy about the Pink Pather. Maybe it's his dead pan and sardonic manner. He never seems to let the situation get the better of him, always cool and suave.

It's ironic he started life as a bit of title credit humour in a comedy film, which has been tragically remade. This re-make disease of the modern film industry really leaves me respect the people involved in remakes. There's no point in updating a film classic, it rather rubs against the grain of the idea film classic. More to the point, making a film just to make money is a rather low manner of making film...