The Pink Panther 2

2009 "Inspect the unexpected."
5.6| 1h32m| PG| en
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When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign Inspector Clouseau to a team of international detectives and experts charged with catching the thief and retrieving the stolen artifacts.

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Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Alexandr Orlov A wooden parody on something like humor. This can not even be called a french humor(a type like English humor or American humor), it's just an antics.
SnoopyStyle Tornado has stolen many of the world's treasures. A dream team of detectives is recruited to find the thief. Chief Dreyfus expects to be picked but they want Clouseau (Steve Martin). Gendarme Ponton (Jean Reno) is his sidekick and his assistant Nicole Durant (Emily Mortimer) is now his secret girlfriend. Dreyfus takes charge of the Pink Panther diamond and it gets stolen. The dream team with Italian Vicenzo Brancaleone (Andy García), British Randall Pepperidge (Alfred Molina), Tornado expert Sonia Solandres and Kenji Mazuto arrives in Paris. Mrs. Berenger (Lily Tomlin) tries to teach Clouseau some simple manners.I've never found Steve Martin's fake accent that funny. The movie has even more fake accents than before. I don't find many things in this movie funny. I love Martin and I don't hate the attempt. I'm just disappointed. The new franchise still misses Cato. In this one, they try to replace him with two little kids. It's not the same thing. Jean Reno is still not funny. The unfunny parts of the movie are the only compelling things. The romance with Nicole and the actual investigation kept me watching but that's not the point of a Pink Panther movie. It's suppose to be funny.
carbuff Very good, but not quite great. Nicely filmed in Europe with quite a few funny jokes and gags, but not really brilliant comedy. Even allowing for that, and I know that this is heresy, I'm starting to think that I enjoyed this film as much as the original Peter Seller's "Pink Panther" productions. Just so you know though, I also like Kraft American Cheese slices, so I might not be the best final arbitrator on taste.However, I can say with confidence that there was no bad acting or actors, lovely scenery, a bit of heartfelt sentiment, and nothing excessively crude, gory or violent, while still being mature enough to hold the attention of adults, meaning you can kill 92 minutes here without regret.
fedor8 Bumbling like a clown – while solving a case – doesn't make you Clouseau; it makes you an idiot savant. Why on Earth these nincompoops from 21st-century Hollywood studios would want to transform Clouseau from a dim-witted loser to a detective genius is beyond me. Perhaps their writers are too lazy of incompetent to conceive a plot that allows Clouseau to be clumsy AND solve a murder mystery by accident as he always does.The film has the same formula as the 2006 movie; it goes into brief sentimentality after the first hour and then Clouseau inexplicably solves the case yet again on his own, thereby rendering him a genius, not a buffoon. So what's supposed to be so funny in a genius solving a case? The director holds some blame as well. He is clueless about how to do comedy. Even with a top cast he doesn't get good scenes often, partly because he keeps cutting away to other actors' faces after every dumb thing Clouseau says or does – as if by watching their "perplexed" faces (but more bored-looking than confused) the gags will gain in weight. Their faces are often inexpressive, which, if anything, hurts the comedic momentum – when there is any to begin with. Clearly, the actors didn't get much guidance from a director who doesn't know anything about actors. Either that, or he just went through the motions, not particularly concerned about how this movie would end up looking once it's edited and ready for viewing.Martin has the right to change the character a bit to suit his own style. After all, he is so different from Sellers, nobody expects him to do a cheesy imitation. However, does that include talking like a gay man? Occasionally, he talks like he's gay. I'm not even sure he's aware that he doing that. Perhaps that's how he perceives a stereotypical, exaggerated Frenchman i.e. all affected and limp-wristed.