Tweekums After a victory over the Chinese the French football coach, Yves Gluant, is murdered and the 'Pink Panther' diamond ring is no longer on his finger. Chief Inspector Dreyfus believes this will provide an opportunity to finally earn the Medal of Honour. To this end he brings in Jacques Clouseau, possibly the least competent policeman in France so that once Clouseau has totally failed he will be able to take over the case and look especially good. He promotes Clouseau to the rank of inspector and assigns officer Gilbert Ponton to work with Clouseau and report back to him. As they investigate various suspects emerges.I must confess that as I fan of the classic Peter Sellers films I wasn't too hopefully about this; perhaps because of those low expectations I ended up being pleasantly surprised. It might not be a classic but it provided more than enough laugh out loud moments. Steve Martin clearly isn't Sellers but once one has got over that his performance is enjoyable. The thing that stands out is the quality of the people in other roles; most notable Jean Reno who is great as Ponton; a far more subtle role. There are also solid performances from Emily Mortimer and Kevin Kline as romantic interest Nicole Durant and Dreyfus respectively. Singer Beyoncé Knowles also impresses Gluant's girlfriend. The gags are mostly fairly slapstick; I particularly enjoyed the running gag where his actions kept causing cycling accidents. The conclusion is a bit of a surprise as it suggests that this Clouseau is actually more competent than we might have thought. Overall I thought this was funny enough if you can divorce it from the Sellers films.

denno Everybody is wrong about this movie. It's actually not a pink panther movie but instead a promotional lengthy music video for Beyoncé.. By coincidence some stars (and has-beens) appear to have cameos. So if Beyoncé's acting and singing doesn't make you puke in your soup then Martin's horrible and insulting mock French accent certainly will.

mjmt-33282 Casting, costumes, locations, lighting, sets, stunts and everyone that makes a movie what it is are all superb. And Steve Martin and whoever else was involved with the re-creation, script and direction of Inspector Clouseau's character are comedy geniuses. It's so very funny, i think my favourite detail is his voice raising incredulity of (in PP2) why the Tornado suddenly "stops". it makes me laugh just thinking of it. along with the hilarious deliveries of;a kitten? who cares (when Ponton says it may be a trap)i think i'm very good at it (insight into Pope being spiritual)good one the case is closed then i am probably sitting on it (hat)and there is so much more, the couple of seconds scene of Clouseau walking from his taxi to Hotel entrance to meet Beyoncey is perfection. A character of great depth has been created.Watch without prejudice

Marko Zivanovic Before I went to see a movie, I knew it was going to be a comedy, a criminal plot. So I'm not expecting a detectives investigate. I wanted to relax, laugh and spend time. But the movie can only spend your time. The movie has a lot of celebrities such as Steve Martin, Jean Reno and Beyonce ... Jean Reno is a great actor, but he does not correspond to this role. While Steve Martin is doing well in this role. The story is nothing special. What I didn't like about the movie is bad humor. Humor boils down to the fact that Jacques Clouseau (played by Steve Martin)embarrass you in any situation and behaves like retard. It's not funny. Jacques Clouseau character was so irritating that I wanted to give my view. Maybe this will be an interesting movie for children of 10 years. I do not recommend this movie unless you do not like this kind of humor.