Pink Panther 2
by Harald Zwart
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Actor: Alfred Molina, Andy Garcia, Emily Mortimer, Jean Reno, Steve MartinDirector: Harald Zwart
Brand: Sony
Writer: Steve Martin
Producer: Ira Shuman
Producer: Robert Simonds
Writer: Blake Edwards
Writer: Maurice Richlin
Writer: Michael H. Weber
Writer: Scott Neustadter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM
Movie Reviews of Pink Panther 2
Movie Review: Uninterested in Cinema Legacy? This Pink Panther is for you
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with many of the comments in the four star reviews. There's a problem with humor, and that is most people consider their opinions absolute. They aren't. What's funny to a brilliant 30 year old is not the same as what's amusing to a sub-normal 5 year old. Different types of people, different humor: There is no absolute standard.
Lower ratings here compare Martin to Peter Sellars, in the sense that Sellars did a perfect job -- that any performance needs to match his. That's really quite beside the point. What's happening is Sellars created a character that, like Sherlock Holmes, appears to have staying power. Martin demonstrated the potential. Someone else will need to be very, very good indeed to create a plausible alternative to what Martin's created.
He and John Cleese are better than the originals. The orginals were Keystone Cops: superficial, frenetic. It's amusing that some reviewers in Rotten Tomatoes said Martin and Cleese were just stringing together slapstick moments. Not at all. Martin and Cleese added perspective and continuity. Emphasized the successes and created a reality that was never there in the often tedious originals.
Martin and Cleese are not junior in their profession. They didn't make this movie because they were forced to, but because they had something to say. They succeeded.
Summary of Pink Panther 2
PINK PANTHER 2 - DVD Movie"Let me bring you up to speed. We know nothing. Now you are up to speed." Thus is the bumbling, deadpan persona of Inspector Clouseau, as re-invented by Steve Martin, best summed up. In this sequel to the 2006 remake of the classic Peter Sellers films, Martin gets crisper direction and a smarter script than he did the first time out. Martin, to his great credit, has never been afraid to make himself look foolish or to take pratfalls--and if the viewer finds these remakes to be less satirical than the original Sellers films, he will still be letting our great laughs and chuckles through the course of the film. And what a cast! Martin is joined by John Cleese, Jeremy Irons, Lily Tomlin, Jean Reno, Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai, Emily Mortimer, Alfred Molina, and Andy Garcia--all of whom seem to be having a delightful romp--a feeling that?s contagious. The story picks up where the last film ended, with Clouseau?s having saved the precious Pink Panther diamond in Paris. Since then, Clouseau has been reassigned to parking-ticket duty, to keep him off the frayed nerves of Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Cleese). But a band of international thieves is wreaking havoc on the world?s treasures, and, before you can say minkey, the priceless Pink Panther goes missing, again. If plot?s a bit predictable, it?s no matter, since the phun is in the haplessness of Clouseau and the rings of nuclear fallout that surround him. And you may never pronounce hamburger the same way. Evair!--A.T. Hurley
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