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The Pink Panther (2006)

February. 10,2006
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5.7
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PG
| Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery
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When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case.

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Ehirerapp
2006/02/10

Waste of time

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Stometer
2006/02/11

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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ChanBot
2006/02/12

i must have seen a different film!!

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Chirphymium
2006/02/13

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Tweekums
2006/02/14

After a victory over the Chinese the French football coach, Yves Gluant, is murdered and the 'Pink Panther' diamond ring is no longer on his finger. Chief Inspector Dreyfus believes this will provide an opportunity to finally earn the Medal of Honour. To this end he brings in Jacques Clouseau, possibly the least competent policeman in France so that once Clouseau has totally failed he will be able to take over the case and look especially good. He promotes Clouseau to the rank of inspector and assigns officer Gilbert Ponton to work with Clouseau and report back to him. As they investigate various suspects emerges.I must confess that as I fan of the classic Peter Sellers films I wasn't too hopefully about this; perhaps because of those low expectations I ended up being pleasantly surprised. It might not be a classic but it provided more than enough laugh out loud moments. Steve Martin clearly isn't Sellers but once one has got over that his performance is enjoyable. The thing that stands out is the quality of the people in other roles; most notable Jean Reno who is great as Ponton; a far more subtle role. There are also solid performances from Emily Mortimer and Kevin Kline as romantic interest Nicole Durant and Dreyfus respectively. Singer Beyoncé Knowles also impresses Gluant's girlfriend. The gags are mostly fairly slapstick; I particularly enjoyed the running gag where his actions kept causing cycling accidents. The conclusion is a bit of a surprise as it suggests that this Clouseau is actually more competent than we might have thought. Overall I thought this was funny enough if you can divorce it from the Sellers films.

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dutchfartpolice
2006/02/15

Why is it so hard to understand that most succesfull films, especially comedic films or films build on a single character are usually just succesfull because of multiple things comming together in a certain moment in time.The original pink panther is completely build on sellers. If anyone else had played that role back then nobody would have remembered the thing and no sequals would have been made. It would have drowned in the sea of mediocracy made every year.The original cast just had the right chemistry and sellers gave the inspector a certain flair that went perfect with the time and the scripts.Martin doesn't do a bad job and the film has a couple of funny moments, but it is just a mediocre film, filler to keep the screens going in the movie theatre. If you never saw the originals you might enjoy it as an easy to watch but forgetable movie. But it certainly isn't a classic.Anyway, that's why sequals rarely come close to the original and remakes almost always disapoint. Recreating whatever made a movie so good is often just impossible. Especially when americans remake foreign movies/actors it hardly ever ends well. I wont be watching any more of the current wave of remakes, it's just not worth it.

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stormhawk2018
2006/02/16

Shawn Levy performs a good update from Blake Edwards's "The Pink Panther" with gags that recall more situations of the type "Grab it as you can," but without losing that classic touch of the original film, striking to repeat both soundtrack and the magnificent animation developed in the initial titles of credit. While it is true that Steve Martin never reaches the degree of genius of Peter Sellers, it is also true that he plays his role very well, getting the audience laughing in their successive catastrophes, leaving no puppet head wherever it may be. Well backed by Jean Reno as his longtime companion, Beyoncé Knowles as the beauty of the turn and brief but intense interventions by the charismatic Jason Statham as French soccer coach and Clive Owen parodying James Bond, the film is a continuous sequence of comic sequences, humor to some extent intelligent, that will delight everyone. It would have been wonderful, if Cato Fong returned (this time played by Jackie Chan) and teamed up with Ponton, and have the soccer star David Beckham on this movie, but nevermind that! To put a sticking, the script misses somewhat to an actor of the stature of Kevin Kline, but the objective of the film, to make laugh to the most painted, is obtained with more. Highly recommended.

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Marko Zivanovic
2006/02/17

Before I went to see a movie, I knew it was going to be a comedy, a criminal plot. So I'm not expecting a detectives investigate. I wanted to relax, laugh and spend time. But the movie can only spend your time. The movie has a lot of celebrities such as Steve Martin, Jean Reno and Beyonce ... Jean Reno is a great actor, but he does not correspond to this role. While Steve Martin is doing well in this role. The story is nothing special. What I didn't like about the movie is bad humor. Humor boils down to the fact that Jacques Clouseau (played by Steve Martin)embarrass you in any situation and behaves like retard. It's not funny. Jacques Clouseau character was so irritating that I wanted to give my view. Maybe this will be an interesting movie for children of 10 years. I do not recommend this movie unless you do not like this kind of humor.

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