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The Pink Panther Iamnot tryingto be mean, but this was the single most painful viewing experience I have had since I experienced a close-up of a cement pillar seconds before smashing face first into it. It is com- pletely devoid of laughs , other than t h o s e from its ^ leading actor and his team of business advi sors. What has hap pened to Steve v" pJ Martin? He's just not funny anymore. As a matter of fact he is quickly sliding into the smugly annoying, want-to- repeatedly punch-in-the- face Robin WilliamsLeague. Sure, that still leaves him higherthan the so-hideously- unfunny-I-want-to-eat-m y- own-eyeballs Whoopi Gold- berg/Billy Crystal League. However, he is sliding down that slippery slope just the same. The original Pink Panther series directed by Blake Edwards and starring the talented Peter Sellers was uneven but still hilarious. Sellers was a genius. I used to think that Steve Martin was one too but. after watch- ing his string of completely unfunny films starting with Father O f The Bride 2 right up to Cheaper By The Dozen 2, 1think he just plain hates his fans and has contempt so deep that he wants to punish them severely. The Pink Panther starts with the mur- fl der of a A$p» winnin g f \-^-// ^ s o c c e r rrZ /y coach who s// has hisprice- *// less ring, the Pink