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Reviews Counted:127
Fresh:16
Rotten:111
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Underutilizing its talented cast, The Pink Panther 2 is little more than a series of lame slapstick gags.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Apr 2, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $35,922,978
Synopsis: With 2009’s THE PINK PANTHER 2, Steve Martin once again dons the mantle of the giddily absurd Inspector Clouseau. This time, the bumbling French lawman, relieved of meter-maid duty, attempts to... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Andy Garcia
Director: Harald Zwart
I laughed more times than I thought I would so that is a big improvement on the previous film which almost made my toes curl. It will keep the kids quiet over half term and it won’t be the worst film you see this year.
The most casually catastrophic addition yet to the 45-year-old franchise.
Steve Martin again steps into Peter Sellers’s long-vacated shoes and finds his feet are so small he can’t stand up to original bungling French cop Inspector Clouseau.
A mirthless shot in the dark that misses the target by some distance.
Top CriticMartin fumbles it from the off. And that, in a nutshell, is reason enough to avoid this as one might any other calamity.
Moronic, but even moronic humour can be passingly entertaining, in parts.
The entire film is a tedious string of pratfalls.
Top CriticCheap-looking, and peddling a humour that charitable folks will call broad and the rest of us will call unfunny, Pink Panther 2 may still appeal to audiences in non-English-speaking countries where physical comedy in the Mr Bean mould prospers.
2009 will struggle to produce another comedy quite as bad as The Pink Panther 2.
The animated title sequence is fun. Besides one set-piece involving a burning restaurant, the rest of the movie isn’t.
In the interests of full disclosure, the 2006 version of The Pink Panther ranks amongst my three most excruciating cinema experiences of all time. This sequel is no better.
A predictably woeful affair that achieves the not inconsiderable feat of being even more unbearable than its 2006 predecessor.
A comedy with no redeeming features that may be, in what is now a depressingly competitive field, Martin’s worst film to date.
Possibly the most excruciating comedy of the year.
Lazy, poorly written and badly directed comedy that completely wastes its talented cast and doesn't have a single laugh in it.
There are a few inspired lines of dialog and a couple of moments where the slapstick actually works, but this sequel to the surprisingly not-awful remake is strictly for kids.
feel free to sing along here: “It’s a stinker, Pink Panther, your heart’ll sinky-dink panther. And it’s as plain as your noooose . . .You couldn’t make a weaker, truly aby-si-mal, ranker Pink Panther from heeead—to—toooooes.”
This sequel to Martin's dire 2006 not-a-remake requires an autopsy, not a review, to establish cause of death. To start with, Steve Martin simply does not understand Jacques Clouseau.
The Pink Panther 2 is like the meat that Jeff Goldblum sent through the teleporter in The Fly: looks familiar, tastes weird.
Not a very good film, but at least it's a painless one. It's not irritating -- which, believe me, is a step up.
February 08, 2009:
While Martin's all purpose good cop/bad cop excels at flaunting his dark side when beating up children, burning down ritzy restaurants more than once, and ogling every woman in the vicinity, it's a tad too polite for audiences weaned on grossout. 
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