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Reviews Counted:127
Fresh:16
Rotten:111
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Underutilizing its talented cast, The Pink Panther 2 is little more than a series of lame slapstick gags.
Runtime: 4 hrs 23 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:13-02-2009
Synopsis: With 2009’s THE PINK PANTHER 2, Steve Martin once again dons the mantle of the giddily absurd Inspector Clouseau. This time, the bumbling French lawman, relieved of meter-maid duty, attempts to... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Andy Garcia
Director: Harald Zwart
It’s been a long time (the 1980s, maybe?) since either Cleese or Martin was actually funny, but the director, Harald Zwart, compounds this by displaying zero sense of comedy, employing laboured visual gags and routines with no punch lines.
The producers appear to believe that farce (that most delicate of genres) is humour played with the utmost crudity.
Comedy crime caper is more miss than hit.
This revisiting of Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau catapults Martin so far beyond the pale of authentic comedy that there can be no hope of return.
There is something depressingly old hat about the slapstick in The Pink Panther 2, a movie whose target audience appears to be tiny tots and those with a high tolerance for jokes about people falling over.
Someone, please make it stop!
Steve Martin is back doing the fur-nay ack-saynt (now increasingly eun-fur-nay); and with this film he's very much channelling the spirit of the final Panther movies from the original series, when Peter Sellers had nothing to offer but despair.
Top CriticI laughed more times than I thought I would so that is a big improvement on the previous film which almost made my toes curl. It will keep the kids quiet over half term and it won’t be the worst film you see this year.
The most casually catastrophic addition yet to the 45-year-old franchise.
Steve Martin again steps into Peter Sellers’s long-vacated shoes and finds his feet are so small he can’t stand up to original bungling French cop Inspector Clouseau.
A mirthless shot in the dark that misses the target by some distance.
Top CriticMartin fumbles it from the off. And that, in a nutshell, is reason enough to avoid this as one might any other calamity.
Top CriticMoronic, but even moronic humour can be passingly entertaining, in parts.
Top CriticThe entire film is a tedious string of pratfalls.
Top CriticCheap-looking, and peddling a humour that charitable folks will call broad and the rest of us will call unfunny, Pink Panther 2 may still appeal to audiences in non-English-speaking countries where physical comedy in the Mr Bean mould prospers.
Top Critic2009 will struggle to produce another comedy quite as bad as The Pink Panther 2.
The animated title sequence is fun. Besides one set-piece involving a burning restaurant, the rest of the movie isn’t.
In the interests of full disclosure, the 2006 version of The Pink Panther ranks amongst my three most excruciating cinema experiences of all time. This sequel is no better.
A predictably woeful affair that achieves the not inconsiderable feat of being even more unbearable than its 2006 predecessor.
A comedy with no redeeming features that may be, in what is now a depressingly competitive field, Martin’s worst film to date.
February 08, 2009:
While Martin's all purpose good cop/bad cop excels at flaunting his dark side when beating up children, burning down ritzy restaurants more than once, and ogling every woman in the vicinity, it's a tad too polite for audiences weaned on grossout. 
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