The Pink Panther [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of The Pink Panther [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: This is a really bad film
Summary: 1 Stars
This is just about the worst film I have seen. I have only seen it because I suffered through it being turned up loud and stuffed in front of me while I was on a bus journey in Cancun.
There are many reasons why it is awful but here's a couple:
# Steve Martin's accent is rubbish throughout. It's inconsistent. It isn't remotely French and it's not funny.
# In the original films the slapstick was so great because you didn't always see it coming. In this one it's so lazily plotted, acted and directed that you can see and hear the jokes coming from light years away with your eyes closed and your ears plugged. I know because I tried.
# Clouseau was always funny because he was so blissfully unaware of the havoc he causes. Steve Martin is only too aware - and smug about it too which just makes you wanna slap him with a kipper.
# It's awful cos the originals were so good. Please don't watch this film. Do yourself a favour and get the originals from 'A shot in the dark onwards'...!
The Pink Panther Film Collection (The Pink Panther / A Shot in the Dark / Strikes Again / Revenge of / Trail of)
Movie Review: Stupefying
Summary: 1 Stars
Stilted, vapid and utterly predictable. And that was just Beyonce. The rest of the movie was even worse. There was exactly one laugh in the whole thing -- the end credits list a dialect coach for Kevin Kline! In one scene he's English, the next he's kinda-sorta French, and in the next he just gives up altogether.
You know how in Jerry Lewis movies you can always tell what the gag is going to be about 10 seconds before it happens? Every time? This movie bests that by about 15 seconds.
Movie Review: Conceived for teenagers
Summary: 2 Stars
The hero is a clumsy oaf and unsuccessful with women, spends lonely time on the Internet, but he redeems himself..... clearly the target market for this semi-amusing product is the male teenage crowd who can identify their own problems with those of the protagonist (a similar marketing profile was created for Robin Williams in "Man of the Year"). There are a few funny sight gags but this is corporate comedy from the boardroom. The phony French accents are to die for (not). OK if you have a couple of hours to kill.Movie Review: Sad remake of a classic film
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is an embarrassment and it's hard to believe that Steve Martin had a hand in writing it.
The plot is the coach of the French national soccer team is murdered in front of a stadium full of fans and his ring, made of the Pink Panther diamond, is stolen from his finger. Police director Dreyfuss decides to assign the most inept inspector he has so he can solve the crime himself without the attention of the press on him. He gives the job to Clousseau, played by Steve Martin, and Clousseau bumbles his way through the investigation.
The case at the center of the movie is uninteresting and nothing Clousseau does during his investigation lets the audience in on who might have done it. Clousseau suddenly figures it all out and explains it to everyone in the last five minutes of the movie. My real complaints are with the attempts at humor. Every pratfall and joke is telegraphed. They weren't funny to begin with, but when you know what's coming, it's pointless. For all his bumbling and stumbling, Peter Sellers still played Clousseau with subtlety. Martin plays him too broadly, turning him into a cartoon.
I like Steve Martin and think he is very talented. There were some other very talented people in this movie like Kevin Kline and Jean Reno. Unfortunately they were part of a bad movie.
Movie Review: Headache-Inducing
Summary: 1 Stars
I remember seeing the regular Pink Panther movies (with Peter Sellers in it). I remember them being funny. I don't know how Hollywood pulled this one off. It wasn't funny at all. It just seemed like everyone was trying too hard to be funny, and at times, it had its moments, but too few and far in between. And they've got the nerve to have a sequel? Ooookay, whatever.
The only thing I liked about the disc was the video that Beyonce performed: "A Woman Like Me." After hearing the song itself, I listened to the commentary, and even the producers/directors said that she knows her voice (top-notch), but her acting...she still has a way to go. Either way, I still like the song.