Pantomime is a 1996 five-song EP by Minneapolis alternative rock band Polara, released shortly before their second full-length C'est la Vie, their major-label debut for Interscope Records.

Though bandleader Ed Ackerson produced most of Pantomime and C'est La Vie himself, the band also worked with Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins), Sean Slade, and Paul Q. Kolderie on several tracks.

The Los Angeles Times pop-music critic Robert Hilburn said that "the music filters '90s sensibilities with all sorts of classic rock elements—from Beatles and Stones to R.E.M.—in the manner of Oasis and the Smashing Pumpkins.

"[4] Jenny Eliscu of CMJ New Music Monthly said that "the real meat of each Polara song is comprised of a sharp, shining hook, a bouncy rhythm and an immediately accessible vocal melody.

"[5] Bryan Carroll of AllMusic said that the EP combined electronica, "a progressive political sensibility, and a love of cavernously huge-sounding production with the conventions of alternative rock," but felt that the music "sounds flat and half-baked.