|

Now Playing
Critics & Publications
Archives: A-Z Index
Advanced Search
Upcoming Release Calendar
Weekend Box Office
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss Film In Our Forums

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

67
$9.99
75
24 City
66
Adoration
74
Afghan Star
48
Alien Trespass
56
American Violet
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
57
Away We Go
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
62
Big Man Japan
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
55
Brothers Bloom, The
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
xx
Call of the Wild
63
Cheri
62
Cherry Blossoms
63
Dead Snow
65
Departures
18
Downloading Nancy
58
Easy Virtue
70
End of the Line, The
77
Every Little Step
64
Examined Life
80
Food, Inc.
38
Gigantic
56
Girl from Monaco, The
67
Girlfriend Experience, The
87
Gomorrah
89
Goodbye Solo
63
Great Buck Howard, The
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
xx
Home
82
Hunger
91
Hurt Locker, The
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
81
Il Divo
54
Is Anybody There?
71
Jerichow
58
Julia
74
Lemon Tree
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
40
Limits of Control, The
42
Little Ashes
64
Lymelife
50
Management
57
Merry Gentleman, The
66
Moon
35
New York
62
Not Forgotten
xx
Offshore
78
O'Horten
64
Outrage
40
Paris 36
54
Pontypool
71
Pressure Cooker
52
Quiet Chaos
83
Revanche
67
Rudo y Cursi
86
Seraphine
65
Sex Positive
70
Shall We Kiss?
77
Sin Nombre
59
Sleep Dealer
74
Song of Sparrows, The
54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
82
Sugar
84
Summer Hours
61
Sunshine Cleaning
28
Surveillance
42
Tennessee
63
Tetro
64
Throw Down Your Heart
80
Tokyo Sonata
63
Tokyo!
70
Tony Manero
74
Treeless Mountain
88
Tulpan
74
Two Lovers
83
Tyson
83
U2 3D
60
Under Our Skin
69
Unmistaken Child
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
22
What Goes Up
45
Whatever Works
57
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
88
Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
Revanche
83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
Hunger
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
Tokyo Sonata
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
78
O'Horten
77
Every Little Step
77
Sin Nombre
75
24 City
74
Treeless Mountain
74
Afghan Star
74
Two Lovers
74
Song of Sparrows, The
74
Lemon Tree
71
Pressure Cooker
71
Jerichow
70
Shall We Kiss?
70
Tony Manero
70
End of the Line, The
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
69
Unmistaken Child
67
$9.99
67
Rudo y Cursi
67
Girlfriend Experience, The
66
Adoration
66
Moon
65
Sex Positive
65
Departures
64
Outrage
64
Examined Life
64
Throw Down Your Heart
64
Lymelife
63
Tokyo!
63
Cheri
63
Dead Snow
63
Tetro
63
Great Buck Howard, The
62
Cherry Blossoms
62
Big Man Japan
62
Not Forgotten
61
Sunshine Cleaning
60
Under Our Skin
59
Sleep Dealer
58
Julia
58
Easy Virtue
57
Away We Go
57
Merry Gentleman, The
57
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
56
Girl from Monaco, The
56
American Violet
55
Brothers Bloom, The
54
Is Anybody There?
54
Pontypool
54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
52
Quiet Chaos
50
Management
48
Alien Trespass
45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
Tennessee
40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
Downloading Nancy
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
xx
Call of the Wild
xx
Home
xx
Offshore
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
|
Pink Panther, The
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Releasing
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for occasional crude and suggestive humor and language
Starring
Steve Martin,
Kevin Kline,
Beyoncé Knowles,
Jean Reno,
Emily Mortimer,
Henry Czerny,
Kristin Chenoweth,
and
Roger Rees
In this action-packed comedy, the bumbling Inspector Closeau (Martin) takes on his most important case ever. (Sony)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
|
Comedy
|
Crime
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Len Blum (also story)
Steve Martin
Michael Saltzman (story)
Maurice Richlin & Blake Edwards (characters)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Shawn Levy
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 13, 2006
Theatrical: February 10, 2006
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
91
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The staging of the physical comedy in The Pink Panther is not always adept - director Shawn Levy is no Blake Edwards - but Martin, who co-wrote the screenplay, keeps spinning in his own orbit anyway. And what an orbit it is.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
Transforming Clouseau's perennial nemesis into a more urbane smoothie, Kevin Kline delivers like a pro.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Martin, who hasn't really clicked in a movie in years, hits the target this time with an Inspector Clouseau who is even more relentlessly annoying (and strangely endearing) than Sellers managed to be in his last several outings.

75
Premiere
John Migliore
This one will make you laugh early and often, and send you out of the theater in a cheerful mood.

70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The best thing about the replica is how wholeheartedly Martin throws himself into the physical comedy, which is uniformly hilarious.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
This Pink Panther really doesn't have to achieve the heights of the original; it just has to be funny on its own terms. But it pales there too. Kline, a master of comic hypocrisy, deserves more screen time, Emily Mortimer is wasted as Clouseau's adoring assistant Nicole and Knowles is over indulged as Xania.

60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This slapdash farce, arriving three decades after Sellers last inhabited the role, sustains a baseline of good will that often spikes into delight at Mr. Martin's beguiling nonsense.
58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Martin makes a fine Clouseau, re-energizing musty old physical gags involving chandeliers and priceless vases, and rolling his tongue around a zesty form of pidgin French. If he ever finds his Blake Edwards, there may be hope for this franchise yet.

50
Variety
Brian Lowry
Neither the disaster one might have suspected nor a fully realized madcap farce; rather, Steve Martin's foray as Inspector Clouseau exhibits bursts of wild-and-craziness, but hardly enough to sustain even its relatively brief running time.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Martin's gift for physical and vocal comedy is as deft as ever.

50
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
An occasionally amusing but wrongheaded remake that arrives more than four decades after the original blazed across the screen.

50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Occasionally works and has a handful of great moments.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Even the cartoon Pink Panther in the credits seems off - at once too glitzy and too fey, more Peter Allen than Pink Panther.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Suffice to say that Shawn Levy, director of the "Cheaper by the Dozen" movies, is no Blake Edwards; for every finely tuned slapstick fillip, there's a ton of messy, family-friendly buffoonery.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The best sequence is a five-minute set-piece where Clouseau struggles with an accent coach to learn how to order a hamburger like an American.

40
Empire
Dan Jolin
With a better story, director and support cast, Martin could have made Clouseau his own. Still, it's not as bad as the one with Roberto Benigni.

40
LA Weekly
Christopher Orr
With the exception of one scene with an accent coach, his (Martin) Clouseau is flabby and obvious, like your dad doing an impression at the dinner table.

40
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Steve Martin can be a delightfully spasmodic clown, but his Clouseau makes no sense.

40
Village Voice
Ben Kenigsberg
The lack of energy suggests the film might as well have been constructed from outtakes.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Even with the inspired choice of Steve Martin in the Clouseau role, this "Panther" picture is more bumbling and fumbling than the blissfully oblivious, accident-prone Inspector.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Mr. Levy's cold, streamlined direction gives the movie the feel of a mechanical contraption manipulated by remote control with a nervous finger on the fast-forward button. Many of the jokes barely have time to register before we're on to the next stunt.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Martin, who plays Clouseau and wrote the script with Len Blum, has completely mishandled the character.

38
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Sacre bleu! Bumbling French police inspector Jacques Clouseau is back, and he's never been less funny.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
At every moment in the movie, I was aware that Peter Sellers was Clouseau, and Steve Martin was not. I hadn't realized how thoroughly Sellers and Edwards had colonized my memory.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The mirthlessly sadistic gags tend to target people in wheelchairs or hospital beds and betray a mild if all-encompassing disgust for the source material and the audience.

30
Slate
Dana Stevens
This movie leaves us with the stale whiff of fake nostalgia and something even more odoriferous: the smell of money.

30
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Most of the humor in The Pink Panther derives from Martin's silly French accent, especially when he tries to pronounce the word "hamburger." But zat joke, she ees not funny. And The Pink Panther ees, how you say, ze real dog.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
After a while, hearing Martin say ''Zee area eez zecure!'' doesn't cut it any longer, and that's pretty much all The Pink Panther has to offer.

25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The Pink Panther is supposed to use humor to uplift. Instead, I departed this movie feeling depressed.

25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Alas, this joyless affair doesn't have a clou.

25
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This, the 10th and worst-written entry in the series, would have been better
if it had followed Dreyfuss instead of Clouseau, or if Kline had been cast
as Clouseau instead of Martin.

16
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's pathetic.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A graceless, embarrassing effort.

0
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Sellers' comic mastery is completely fumbled by Martin and director Shawn Levy.

0
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Ultimately, one has to chalk up The Pink Panther to the good old traditions of Hollywood greed and chutzpah. Nothing this slapdash and badly executed is done for the love of movies.


The average user rating for this movie is 6.4 (out of 10) based on 59 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Read more user comments...
Discuss this movie in our forums |
|