Through its admirably short 90-minute running time, The Pink Panther never made me laugh a single time, though Martin's clever wordplay yielded one or two chuckles.
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02/11/06
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
For those who recall Sellers and the role he made famous, 'travesty' seems to be the right descriptor.
02/11/06
Despite 'bending it a little,' Steve Martin manages to capture the humorous essence of Inspector Clouseau's character.
02/10/06
The opening titles with Henry Mancini's wonderful theme played under them comprise the best of this film. Then the movie starts and the entertainment stops.
02/10/06
Bland, unfunny and filled with crude sight gags that can't touch Sellers at his laziest.
02/10/06
As if the curse of the Pink Panther wasn't dire enough, Martin's Clouseau is haunted by more than the ghost of Peter Sellers. He's also being trailed by the old Steve Martin.
02/10/06
This movie leaves us with the stale whiff of fake nostalgia and something even more odoriferous: the smell of money.
02/10/06
It's time to let the Inspector rest in peace.
02/10/06
If The Pink Panther has any value at all, it's in the way its failure demonstrates the delicate nature of comedy, and the skill of other comedies by contrast.
02/10/06
By now, the panther has had a very long meow.
02/10/06
With so much resting on Martin, Pink Panther falls prey to the great equalizer of all star-over-substance comedies: the 45-minute mark.
02/10/06
Rent Sellers' greatest Panther film, A Shot in the Dark, stay home and laugh your head off.
02/10/06
Surprisingly lively and hilarious.
02/10/06
Not even the Rocky series is as willfully flogged as The Pink Panther, which is now on its eighth sequel, the third without Sellers.
02/10/06
Brilliant Martin, an intellectual comic who started his career slumming in sophomoric slapstick, is entirely too uptight to be genius Sellers' greatest creation.
02/10/06
Soul-quakingly lame.
02/10/06
The film has its stumbling points, but it offers a sufficient amount of laughter.
02/10/06
You could wander into The Pink Panther for any 15-minute period, laugh a couple of times and leave without wondering for a moment how things will turn out.
02/10/06
Under his coat, the Panther must be pink with embarrassment.
02/10/06
Martin does a good job stumbling into Sellers' shoes, and it's all funny enough, depending on your tolerance for slapstick and odd accents.
02/10/06
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