I hate to slam the film after one of our PA friends said how cool it was for him to work for his idol, Steve Martin, but... this movie is terrible. Awful. We are all dumber for this movie's existence.
The original Pink Panther series was made in the 60s and 70s -- around the same era as all those grindhouse and blaxsploitation films. They were full of bumbling, sexist, racist characters. Inspector Clouseau beats on his Chinese houseboy, and everybody laughs. Send in the hot secretary for sex! The 60s were an interesting time.
If you wanted to revive this series, why not go Austin Powers style? Instead, the Pink Panther 2 takes all the campy xenophobia and sets it in the present day. It doesn't play anymore. At best, The Pink Panther 2 is annoying and stupid. At worst, there were probably children that left the theater spewing outdated racial slurs.
I'm angry at this movie. It took legendary actors and made them look like jackasses. Steve Martin, fine, go ahead and humiliate yourself... but Alfred Molina? Andy Garcia? Leon... the Professional? Why? Why did you do this to yourselves?
This movie shot here in the summer of 2007, but the plot takes place in Paris; the locations don't look anything like Boston. Thank God. We don't want credit for this.
Final Score = F
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