Dreyfus needs a patsy for the media to follow around while he secretly solves the case, and so he recruits Clouseau, the clumsiest and most incompetent detective on the force, who is tricked into believing that he is actually leading the investigation. The story proper involves a famous soccer coach who is murdered – and the even more famous Pink Panther diamond, which is stolen from his body. A rather odd though impressive cast rounds out the rest of the supporting characters, including Beyonce Knowles, Kristin Chenoweth, and Emily Mortimer. But Steve Martin is now Jacques Clouseau and Kevin Kline is Chief Inspector Dreyfus. In 2006, the Pink Panther is still a diamond. Perhaps this is why the end result is an exercise in mediocrity and pointlessness rather than nostalgia and exceptional comedic timing. Bean than anything Blake Edwards would have devised. Here, Steve Martin doesn’t even try to outdo or even emulate that iconic comic performance instead, he dons the guise of a less realistic, less effective, and far less humorous iteration, seemingly based more closely on Mr. The one element that really drove the original film was Peter Sellers’ characterization of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, which can never really be replaced. Hy would anyone want to remake “The Pink Panther”? Surely there are other movies from the ‘60s – perhaps those that feature dated special effects, which have now come a long way – that could benefit from a 2006 modernization.
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