Martin plays Clouseau as a cartoon. We always are aware of the distance between the actor and the character, whereas with Sellers, Clouseau was a part of him.
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02/17/06
Pink Panther (2006)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:32
Rotten:106
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Though Steve Martin is game, the particulars of the Inspector Clouseau character elude him in this middling update.
Theatrical Release:17-03-2006
Synopsis: Reviving the beloved comedy franchise THE PINK PANTHER, the brilliant Steve Martin returns to his slapstick physical-comedy roots. After years of flirting with the world of high culture--from his... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, Beyonce Knowles, Jean Reno, Kevin Kline
Director: Shawn Levy
Reviews for Pink Panther
it’s sad to see [Martin] in a film that offers little other than stupid accents and broad pratfalls
02/17/06
A pale Pink Panther.
02/17/06
The Pink Panther moves Clouseau into the modern world while keeping the jokes older than dirt.
02/17/06
[Steve Martin's] Clouseau isn't all that funny because he's trying too hard in a part that requires effortless stupidity.
02/16/06
What is the point?
02/16/06
Fails on so many levels that it's ... well, it's not funny.
02/15/06
If You Go In Making Comparisons To Peter Sellers, You're Going To Be Disappointed.
02/15/06
Steve Martin humiliates himself in thie dreadful reincarnation of Inspector Jacques Clouseau. It's an acute embarrassment.
02/15/06
The most that can be said for this strenuously bland reconstitution is that Steve Martin was clearly alive during filming. But just how alive, unfortunately, is at issue.
02/14/06
If you can divorce yourself from total allegiance to the original %u2013 or if you have no allegiance to the original - then this is an enjoyable movie with some real laughs courtesy of a modern day comic genius.
02/12/06
While Martin leaps wholeheartedly into this role, his slavish imitation of Sellers' work is a bit thin.
02/12/06
...below average in every aspect except one: it -- like almost every other remake in recent memory -- is completely unnecessary.
02/12/06
...only manages to conjure up our nostalgic appreciation for the late and great Peter Sellers--this flaccid farce doesn't look pretty in Pink the millionth time around.
02/11/06
While the flat site gags never quite disappear, they're offset by an equal number of bits that'll keep you in stitches. It's good (mostly clean) light fun.
02/11/06
While it's not up to the Sellers ones from the '60s and '70s, like the Sellers-less Curse of and Son of, it definitely has its moments.
02/11/06
Yet another sad milestone in the valley of Steve Martin's career.
02/11/06
Enough, already. It's time for an intervention. Steve Martin, you're no longer allowed to work with director Shawn Levy.
02/11/06
A ninety-minute movie containing two or three big laughs, another two or three small ones, and eighty surrounding minutes of lazy, misguided, laughless tripe.
02/11/06
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02/11/06
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