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75If you liked the first then you are going to like this one as Clouseau is offensive and outrageous, which is a perfect fit for one of the "Wild and Crazy Guys."
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67Provides genial chuckles, but it's never excitingly rude.
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63The results are, quite surprisingly, fairly charming.
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60Martin starts at the outrageous accent and spins out from there, and that's fine for this. And there are a few snicker-worthy scenes.
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60Serves up enough goofy pranks and fractured wordplay to keep the series purring along.
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50Peter Sellers was a genius who somehow made Inspector Clouseau seem as if he really were helplessly incapable of functioning in the real world and somehow incapable of knowing that. Steve Martin is a genius, too, but not at being Clouseau. It seems more like an exercise.
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50Nothing is harder and more elusive than successful slapstick onscreen. Nothing.
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50Level of humor: subteen.
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50The predictable script feels as if it were filmed right off the cocktail napkin it was jotted on, but at least the movie has an "Ocean's 11" sequel's worth of good actors, including Alfred Molina, Jeremy Irons and Jean Reno.
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50The story, of course, is a line on which to pin the comic set-pieces, and that's where Pink Panther 2 comes up lustreless. Zwart has no discernible sense of comic rhythm, beyond managing to punctuate scenes with a wall crashing in.
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A forgettable waste of time.
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50Although the stunts come thick and fast in The Pink Panther 2, they are jammed together in a way that gives most of them barely enough time to register.
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50Plays like an undeserved victory lap for a series that only limped to the finish line the last time.
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50The bloom is decidedly off the pinkish rose. Martin has a few inspired moments but in order to get to them you have to wade through a mosh pit of unfunny gags.
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40A mirthless shot in the dark that misses the target by some distance.
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There is no real plot, the movie's filled with friends of Steve, the comedy is terribly overplayed, or the comedy is overplayed terribly (again, you can choose) -- what you're left with is a bag of tricks that has seen better days.
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40My only question is this: In the context of these by-the-book pratfalls, is it funny enough?
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38There are three or four big laughs scattered throughout The Pink Panther 2, along with a smattering of decent chuckles. But all those moments combined account for maybe five minutes of screen time, which leaves you with another hour and a half of movie to sit through.
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38The movie hopes to be regarded as childlike too, but there's a difference between kid-friendly and just regular old dumb.
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38Perhaps Martin should go back to taking chances and writing original work.
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38The breath of fresh air, to the extent that one can be identified in the staleness of this recycled refuse, is John Cleese.
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30This comedy whodunit generates more laughs than its predecessor, which is to say, two or three.
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It's Garcia, Molina, and Tomlin who give you momentary hope that the film might settle into a witty, irreverent romp. Unfortunately, their efforts are ultimately defeated.
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30Costars John Cleese, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Andy Garcia, and Jeremy Irons look either bored or desperate, gasping for laughs in an airless screenplay.
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25Martin is a gifted physical comic. He deserves an original role tailored to his own talents. Watching something this borrowed just makes me blue.
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25Playing Clouseau's exasperated boss, Cleese rams his head into a wall minutes into the action. That's a powerful image, insofar as his headache was mine.
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25Even the great Lily Tomlin can't muster a funny reaction to a Polish joke. It's an everything-including-the kitchen-sink comedy -- and the sink has rusty pipes.
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20What I can't accept, however, is talents such as Reno, Garcia, Tomlin, and Molina wasting away in a movie like this. As punishment for their complete lack of artistic integrity, all four of them should be forced to sit in a room for all eternity watching The Pink Panther 2 over and over.
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20This time he (Martin) goes through the motions.
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10One of the most dreadfully unnecessary movies in recent memory.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 27
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Mixed: 4 out of 27
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Negative: 13 out of 27
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Johnm10Very under rated movie. A plus for Martin Fans. Glad I did not listen to the Critics.
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[Anonymous]8I don't care what people say, this movie made me laugh. it reminds me a little of police squad.