Think Pink? When it comes to The Pink Panther, don't think. You'll have a lot more fun that way.
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02/10/06
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
Martin (who also co-wrote the screenplay) is so uninspired and dull in this witless movie, he almost -- almost -- makes you long for Adam Sandler.
02/10/06
Martin and Levy fail to convince us of Clouseau's belief in his own reality. We find ourselves watching Martin riffing on Sellers rather than a legitimate if ridiculous character.
02/10/06
Whatever franchise value the Pink Panther name may possess, it might be time to put the Clouseau character to rest.
02/10/06
Peter Sellers was Inspector Clouseau. Steve Martin is merely playing Clouseau. Big difference.
02/10/06
Steve Martin is no Peter Sellers, but he still makes a winning Inspector Clouseau.
02/10/06
It is almost impossible to overstate how much we hated this movie.
02/10/06
it doesn't stink. Au contraire: It's good. Maybe not a masterwork, but good enough to redeem the series and its intrepid, mustachioed twit.
02/10/06
The trouble is the movie has little to offer except Martin's set pieces, which feel off-the-cuff, and, even in the roughly one-in-four times they work, far too drawn out.
02/10/06
The Pink Panther is like a pratfall that doesn't work. It should be funny, but it hurts more than it should.
02/10/06
The Pink Panther, while hardly the disaster it might have been, renders the love as labored as the pronunciation.
02/10/06
To get any enjoyment out of The Pink Panther, you have to forget that Peter Sellers ever played Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
02/10/06
You can see that Martin knows what he's doing. He's still got plenty of comic game. Now all he needs is a more consistently funny comedy in which he can really let loose.
02/10/06
It's not quite on the high comedic plane of 'Do you have a license for that moon-key?' But AM-bourg-airs will do. Just ask the kids.
02/10/06
The writers and director Shawn Levy also misunderstand comic math: In their world, something that's funny once will be four times as funny if it's repeated over and over and over. Actually, the inverse is true.
02/10/06
There's a fair amount of laughs and a breezy feeling of joie de silliness, even if the finished product isn't good enough to warrant an ongoing series.
02/10/06
Well, at least Steve Martin's trying to be funny again.
02/10/06
Painful...truly awful.
02/10/06
The Pink Painther is more like it.
02/10/06
[A] desecration of a comedy classic -- not a remake of the Blake Edwards films, it's more like fictional-character assassination...
02/10/06
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August 09, 2007:
Pink Panther 2 Adds Four to Cast
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