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The Pink Panther movie review

Over the years I have learned that it is perfectly safe to watch a Steve Martin movie for good laughs. Yep, I am talking about falling off the couch laughs and this film provides them in plenty. Actually, Steve Martin is as his very best as Inspector Jacques Clouseau who has been asked to investigate the death of French soccer team coach and disappearance of the Pink Panther diamond. In his quest for the killers with the help of Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno and you might recall him from The Da Vinci Code ), he must make a fool of himself at every point (after all he has been set up to fail by police chief Dreyfus played by Kevin Kline), including making a complete mess on his first trip to New York City , where he gets arrested at the JFK Airport . In the process of his investigations, he must also try to get information out of Beyonce (who plays Xania, a pop singer who was dating the coach). Strongly recommended for Steve Martin fans and comedy lovers.

Chocolat movie review

Here are some simple rules for life: Never join a religion that denies you chocolate , or for that matter, simple pleasures like food , unless you eat so much that you end with a health emergency . Never support the integration of church and state. It is always a dangerous mix regardless of how politicians and church leaders may want to help each other out to screw the people . Always enjoy what you have. On your death bed, you will not regret what you did, but would surely regret all those places that you did not visit or the time that you did not spend with your family or the things that you did not try. Chocolat is a great movie for anyone who likes chocolate or enjoyed "Like Water For Chocolate." Vianne (Juliette Binoche) and daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) show up in a tiny French village, where the main square appears to be literally just as big as my backyard (it is important to understand this because it shows how small the minds of the residents were). Via...

The Devil Wears Prada movie review

Most magazine editors become very powerful but Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue , is above them all. The top designers in the world have to be on good terms with her because Vogue is literally the Bible for the fashionistas and nothing gets inside the magazine until Wintour says so. She is reportedly the inspiration for the book and the movie. And those of us have had the misfortune of dealing with mean bosses know what it feels like and how frustrating it can be to work with nasty supervisor . Miranda Priestley (a role that was literally made for Meryl Streep ) hires yet another assistant Andy Sachs (I would have never thought that Anne Hathaway was such a fine actress) not just to answer phone calls or to act as an executive assistant, but also to bring coffee for her boss and be treated worse than a maid . It is the story of a right-out-of-college graduate with all the aspirations of making it big and always doing the right thing , but then finds out that the world of bu...