I’m not sure why, but I keep writing about the Steve Martin Pink Panther movies. A day or two ago I put up an assessment of sorts about The Pink Panther 2.
I think it may be because I was surprised when I liked the first one. I was expecting a mess with that one, as many people did, because it seem such an ill-conceived notion: redoing a role that Peter Sellers had established and more or less owned. All my scribbling was really just me trying to figure out why I felt it worked. What had they managed to do?
My take on The Pink Panther 2 begins this way:
This movie suffers from comparisons. As discussed in my review of Steve Martin’s first The Pink Panther, it gets compared to the Peter Sellers’ movies and that actor’s performances as Inspector Clouseau. This second Steve Martin film, The Pink Panther 2, suffers from the same fate but also from comparisons to the first movie with Martin as Clouseau … (read more)
