Steve Martin steps into the Inspector Clouseau role and nails it with his most inventive and funny performance in years.
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02/09/06
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
Even if you give Sellers the edge in facial expressions, Martin is his equal in mangled verbiage.
02/09/06
Martin's Clouseau is as clumsy and hapless as his predecessor and probably more innocent.
02/09/06
Top CriticThe Pink Panther does justice to the old Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers crime comedies -- it's almost as good as the best of those films, far better than the worst -- but doesn't depend on viewers being familiar with them.
02/09/06
The most effective way of reviewing the new Pink Panther movie would be to issue two reviews. One would be a simply worded warning to adults: Skip it if you can.
02/09/06
The Pink Panther doesn't mess around. It goes south in a hurry.
02/09/06
The Pink Panther ees, how you say, ze real dog.
02/09/06
We responded to Sellers' Clouseau because his foolishness and fakery echoed something deeply human as well as hilarious. We respond to Martin mostly because he's a funny guy in a silly mustache, cutting up and trying to make us laugh.
02/09/06
This must be the first time that a great comic has taken over the signature role of another great comic and made it his own.
02/09/06
Alas, this joyless affair doesn't have a clou.
02/09/06
Despite a witty performance by Steve Martin, much of The Pink Panther feels like trying on old clothes that no longer fit.
02/09/06
Top CriticAt every moment in the movie, I was aware that Peter Sellers was Clouseau, and Steve Martin was not. I hadn't realized how thoroughly Sellers and Edwards had colonized my memory.
02/09/06
Top CriticMartin deserves another case as Inspector Clouseau -- and we deserve a better movie.
02/09/06
Darned if it isn't pretty good. Martin is not as distinctive as Sellers, but not many people are watching those Sellers films these days and Martin knows the most important thing about this character: silliness.
02/09/06
As is so often the case with Hollywood retreads, the joke is on us.
02/09/06
Cheaper by the Dozen may have affirmed Levy's credentials as a director of domestic comedy, but he seems clueless with this sort of banana-peel shtick.
02/09/06
The prospect of reviving Peter Sellers' Pink Panther character, Inspector Jacques Clouseau, may not tickle anyone pink, but Steve Martin's version isn't nearly as bad as you'd think.
02/09/06
To say that Steve Martin does justice to the `Pink Panther' film series is not to say that you should drop everything and run out to see Martin's `The Pink Panther.'
02/09/06
The one interesting feature is Clive Owen's brief appearance as a Bondian superspy, a vignette that hints at what kind of movies we might instead be enjoying had anyone seen fit to hand that guy the one role he was born to play.
02/09/06
Steve Martin is set up to play a role of bumbler and fumbler, but unfortunately the entire movie bumbles and fumbles.
02/08/06
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