the possibly accurate nowFri, 07 Apr 2006
[09:21] Pink Panther (2006) - Rating: Worse than Ticker
Well, I used to rate movies based on how much better they are than Ticker, the current version of The Pink Panther has reset the bar for awful movies and scores a sum total of absolutely zero stars!
Even taken as a stand-alone move and not comparing it to the originals it really is bad. Not "so bad it's funny" bad, just plain bad.
- The accents were grating - I've read various arguments saying that they were meant to be - I don't buy it.
- The slapstick was minimally amusing (the catapulting ID card and the bathroom disaster for instance were funny) but mostly it was checklist comedy, sung to the tune of "Hot Shots" but really, really badly and out-of-tune (to stretch the analogy). There was even one scene that seemed to be wire-assisted (the Globe vs the cyclist), which just took the humour out if it for me.
- Mostly it's the puerile Americanisation (for want of a better term) of British humour. What's up with that car parking scene at the start, maybe one bump would have been amusing but the back and forth for no reason was just, well, pointless. That, followed up by the "Haha, his face is in her groin" joke really put me off from the start.
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