Title: Son of the Pink Panther
Release Date: 1993-08-27
Genres: Comedy
High essence:
"------------------------------------------------------- The press kit for Blake Edwards's eighth Pink Panther comedy makes no reference to Inspector Clouseau, the 1968 Bud Yorkin comedy in which Alan Arkin briefly took over for the late Peter Sellers in the role of the bumbling Jacques Clouseau.""As for the action-adventure plot concocted by Edwards and his co-writers, Madeline and Steve Sunshine, it's an incomprehensible mess involving a kidnapped princess and some manner of Middle Eastern palace intrigue."
Medium essence:
John Hartl:- Also back are Herbert Lom as twitchy Commissioner Dreyfus, Burt Kwouk as Cato, and Graham Stark as Dr.
- ------------------------------------------------------- The press kit for Blake Edwards's eighth Pink Panther comedy makes no reference to Inspector Clouseau, the 1968 Bud Yorkin comedy in which Alan Arkin briefly took over for the late Peter Sellers in the role of the bumbling Jacques Clouseau.
- Aside from the casting of Roberto Benigni as Clouseau's son - a goofy policeman who has inherited his father's accident-prone behavior as well as the inability to say bump - Edwards and his co-writers have little to add to the Panther formula but mayhem and sloppy slapstick.
David Mills:
- As for the action-adventure plot concocted by Edwards and his co-writers, Madeline and Steve Sunshine, it's an incomprehensible mess involving a kidnapped princess and some manner of Middle Eastern palace intrigue.
- Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982 and Curse of the Pink Panther in '83 both flopped.
- 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.
Low essence:
John Hartl:- Claudia Cardinale, cast as a princess in the first Pink Panther 30 years ago, turns up this time as Maria Gambrelli, who was originally played by Elke Sommer in the second Panther movie, A Shot in the Dark.
- Also back are Herbert Lom as twitchy Commissioner Dreyfus, Burt Kwouk as Cato, and Graham Stark as Dr.
- He's not remotely like Sellers, but he's a creative physical comedian, as he proved in his popular Italian comedy, Johnny Stecchino, and a pair of Jim Jarmusch's movies (Night on Earth, Down by Law).
- ------------------------------------------------------- The press kit for Blake Edwards's eighth Pink Panther comedy makes no reference to Inspector Clouseau, the 1968 Bud Yorkin comedy in which Alan Arkin briefly took over for the late Peter Sellers in the role of the bumbling Jacques Clouseau.
- After a sprightly credits sequence in which the animated Pink Panther takes over conducting duties for Henry Mancini, while helping Bobby McFerrin doodle with the Panther theme Mancini composed 30 years ago, it's mostly downhill.
- Aside from the casting of Roberto Benigni as Clouseau's son - a goofy policeman who has inherited his father's accident-prone behavior as well as the inability to say bump - Edwards and his co-writers have little to add to the Panther formula but mayhem and sloppy slapstick.
- At first, the body count even threatens to match the pile-up of corpses in Friday the 13th, as chief bad guy Robert Davi (the villain in the last James Bond movie, License to Kill) engineers the bloody kidnapping of an exotic princess named Yasmin (Debrah Farentino).
David Mills:
- Edwards also seems to have greatly overestimated the inherent humor in such recurring Pink Panther bits of business as Herbert Lom's facial tics -- the nerve damage that Clouseau inevitably caused his put-upon boss -- and Burt Kwouk's karate sneak attacks as Cato, Clouseau's faithful manservant.
- As for the action-adventure plot concocted by Edwards and his co-writers, Madeline and Steve Sunshine, it's an incomprehensible mess involving a kidnapped princess and some manner of Middle Eastern palace intrigue.
- Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982 and Curse of the Pink Panther in '83 both flopped.
- 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.
- And while Sellers got laughs with a goofy accent and the look on his face, Benigni throws his whole body into Edwards's gags.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sonofthepinkpantherpgmills_a09e52.htm
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1717902&date=19930827