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Roberto Benigni is an undeniably gifted physical comic, but the misguided Son of Pink Panther betrays his energetic efforts with a painfully unfunny script.
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[Benigni's] cheerful physicality and soul -- combined with Edwards's continuing feel for slapstick -- give the tired routines of Son of the Pink Panther whatever life they have. Jul 23, 2014 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
[Benigni's] cheerful physicality and soul -- combined with Edwards's continuing feel for slapstick -- give the tired routines of Son of the Pink Panther whatever life they have.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Edwards actually sets the stage at the end for a sequel. Is there anybody out there who would want to see it? More to the point, would Edwards want to make it? Jul 23, 2014 | Full Review…
Edwards actually sets the stage at the end for a sequel. Is there anybody out there who would want to see it? More to the point, would Edwards want to make it?
Peter Rainer
This movie will finally kill off the series. Jul 23, 2014 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
This movie will finally kill off the series.
Jay Boyar
That there are any laughs at all is due almost entirely to Benigni. He's not remotely like Sellers, but he's a creative physical comedian. Jul 23, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
That there are any laughs at all is due almost entirely to Benigni. He's not remotely like Sellers, but he's a creative physical comedian.
John Hartl
To be fair, Benigni does the best he can with the supremely unfunny material. Jul 23, 2014 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
To be fair, Benigni does the best he can with the supremely unfunny material.
John Petrakis
Outside of the James Bond films, it's hard to think of a series as passé as Blake Edwards' Pink Panther comedies. Nov 6, 2009 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
Outside of the James Bond films, it's hard to think of a series as passé as Blake Edwards' Pink Panther comedies.
Ty Burr
What's missing? Zest, creativity, density, paprika, astonishment, speed. Most of all: speed. Slapstick is like basketball -- if it doesn't happen fast, it doesn't happen. Jul 23, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
What's missing? Zest, creativity, density, paprika, astonishment, speed. Most of all: speed. Slapstick is like basketball -- if it doesn't happen fast, it doesn't happen.
Stephen Hunter
Stay away at all costs. Do not be lulled by nostalgic memories of Inspector Clouseau's malapropisms; do not be fooled by slick print or TV ads; do not let your kids talk you into it. Jul 23, 2014 | Full Review…
Stay away at all costs. Do not be lulled by nostalgic memories of Inspector Clouseau's malapropisms; do not be fooled by slick print or TV ads; do not let your kids talk you into it.
Todd Anthony
Each new installment has become like a visit with old friends who are often annoying and frequently boring, but are missed in some strange way when they're not around. Jul 23, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Each new installment has become like a visit with old friends who are often annoying and frequently boring, but are missed in some strange way when they're not around.
Counting the animated TV show, this is the Panther's ninth life. Color him dead. Jul 23, 2014 | Full Review…
Counting the animated TV show, this is the Panther's ninth life. Color him dead.
People Staff
The kidnapping plot is inane, the slapstick inept and the cast ineffectual. All in all, mind-bogglingly bad. Jul 23, 2014 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The kidnapping plot is inane, the slapstick inept and the cast ineffectual. All in all, mind-bogglingly bad.
David Parkinson
Each routine was done better -- and funnier -- long ago by Sellers. Gags about getting drunk, mispronouncing words, dressing up in disguises, executing pratfalls and other inane physical bits have become old and tired. Jul 23, 2014 | Full Review…
Each routine was done better -- and funnier -- long ago by Sellers. Gags about getting drunk, mispronouncing words, dressing up in disguises, executing pratfalls and other inane physical bits have become old and tired.
Roger Hurlburt
Com toda certeza o pior filme da sà (C)rie A Pantera Cor de Rosa.
Super Reviewer
I am surprised this one was made so recently. I liked the opening credits with the animated pink panther brought to life to direct an a cappella performance of his theme song. Unfortunately from there it is just an excuse to milk the franchise for a few more dollars, while the laughs have become very strained. It's also an excuse to bring back the older generation of Lom, Cardinale, and Kwouk. Benigni is explained ridiculously as the son of Jacques Clouseau. So he has a funny Italian accent instead of a funny French accent. He bumbles and stumbles and spouts off Shakespeare and other poets, you know the usual Benigni type humor. Davi is not too bad as a bad guy. And Farentino is quite pretty though often drugged into a stupor as the damsel in distress. The plot is not important in the least and that just makes it all the more sad.
Ten years after Peter Sellers died, Blake Edwards feels the need to make another sequel that is both tactless and unfunny.
Benigni is simply fantastic!
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