Raping The Pink Panther
I can’t say I have ever really cared for the Pink Panther films, possibly due to seeing them in probably the worst order (Trail first). Whilst the law of diminishing returns was clearly embedded in the series, there are some nice gags for five year olds (Kato) and the summing up scene in A Shot In The Dark is a nice deconstruction of all country house mysteries. That said, as Blake Edwards was happy to constantly piss on his own creation I have felt rather ambivalent towards the recent remake.
No more: Watch The Trailer and feel soiled.
Steve Martin should have learned with Bilko. To be fair, he should have been banned from ever appearing in a film again after Bilko. But this? Where is the humour value in putting someone pretending to have a silly French accent in a film with a French actor with a real French accent. It makes, like the rest of this film, no sense…
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