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- 1993
- PG
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 33 m
- 1993
- PG
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Charles Dreyfus encounters Jacques Gambrelli, who reminds him painfully of Inspector Clouseau, the man who drove him insane. With good reason: Gambrelli is Clouseau's son.
Directed By: Blake Edwards
- 1993
- PG
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 33 m
- 1993
- PG
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 33 m
Son of the Pink Panther
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2.8
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Summary Charles Dreyfus encounters Jacques Gambrelli, who reminds him painfully of Inspector Clouseau, the man who drove him insane. With good reason: Gambrelli is Clouseau's son.
Directed By: Blake Edwards
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
33
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
53% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
Blake Edwards returned to direct this time, and seems to have made the miscalculation that Benigni could carry the movie. One with less noble lineage, maybe. But the Pink Panther movies, largely because of Edwards' own brilliance at physical comedy, are very hard acts to follow. [01 Sep 1993, p.E3]
Benigni is no Peter Sellers, but the inanity of the film isn't really his fault. He tries hard, and his rubbery willingness to absorb any punishment and come up looking as if he's just swallowed a very cold carp isn't without comic potential. But he is continually betrayed by the lame setups.
Technically speaking, this feeble effort is the ninth Pink Panther or Inspector Clouseau comedy, but only the third without Peter Sellers. Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) does what he can as Inspector Clouseau Jr. (which isn't much, given the degree of prominence accorded to a hackneyed kidnapping plot).
What Edwards doesn't bring to the party is an entertaining story. Something about a princess abducted by evil Robert Davi, who has done some great movie bad guys, but seems uninterested here. Benigni deserves another chance to strut the stuff that has made him a box-office phenom in Italy. [31 Aug 1993, p.5D]
The one thing Edwards did right this time was to cast comic actor Roberto Benigni -- a big star in Italy -- as the illegitimate son of Jacques Clouseau, the accident-prone French detective who first appeared on the screen in The Pink Panther nearly 30 years ago. Benigni is enormously charming, a slight little fellow with a homely face that seems almost puppetlike and a flair for broad physical comedy.
Starring Italian comedian Roberto Benigni as the new bumbling inspector, it is a tired pastiche of recycled sketches and gags.
This movie will finally kill off the series.
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Awards
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 2 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
