Steve Martin is funny, wait... let me explain

OK, about a million years ago I started this blog, simply to be able to leave comments on a few other people's blogs that I frequented. For whatever reason I was moved to write about the fact that 'The Pink Panther' is coming out in th theaters. This looks so many kinds of terrible that I long for the days that bad SNL sketches got made into movies. The original Pink Panther was a brilliant movie and was a highlight of Peter Sellers career. This has Steve Martin using an accent lusting after thirty plus years younger Beyonce and seeming to focus on broad physical comedy. Now Steve Martin is exceedingly talented, as far as multi talented 70's era comedians I put him in the Martin Mull, Fred Willard, Robin Williams class, but lately, his need for money seems to outpace my need for taffy (and as we all know I am a man who loves his taffy). Bringing Down the House wasn't the worst movie ever, but two Cheaper by the Dozens and a Pink Panther later, remakes that can have mass appeal seem to be all he is capable of. Eugene Levy was in Bringing Down the House as well as an even more stereotypical pointless character, but he has his Christopher Guest movies that remind us that he is still awesome. To be fair, Steve Martin is a renound artist and musician in much more niche worlds that I would have no idea where to consume or how to critique. I still think he is funny, despite a very tepid episode of SNL he showed flashes of well acted irreverance, especially when he was in kissing distance of Will Forte. So anyway, I guess I have to rent The Jerk, Man with Two Brains, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, or just see that sketch where he delineates his christmas wishes, but please stop ruining classics or remaking bad movies (I'm talking to you Guess Who, Shaggy Dog, Herbie, and on the TV Front Dukes of Hazzard, and Bewitched) Please come up with original bad ideas versus rehashing old bad ideas and ruining good ones for a new audience. Steve Martin should know better, and if any of this seem long winded and rambling, Welllll exccuuuuuuussseeee... meeeeeeeeee.