A highly awkward and tepid climax ends things with a whimper.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 31, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

There are some beautifully constructed, elaborately inventive sequences of mayhem involving sight gags; then there are the scenes in between, when people talk. These are mostly disappointing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

This revisiting of Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau catapults Martin so far beyond the pale of authentic comedy that there can be no hope of return.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 19, 2009

Steve Martin is back doing the fur-nay ack-saynt (now increasingly eun-fur-nay); and with this film he's very much channelling the spirit of the final Panther movies from the original series, when Peter Sellers had nothing to offer but despair.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 13, 2009

Like an (even) less amusing Mr Bean, Martin now looks just that bit too old and creepy to be gurning through this predictable gamut of feeble slapstick.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 13, 2009

A mirthless shot in the dark that misses the target by some distance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2009

Martin fumbles it from the off. And that, in a nutshell, is reason enough to avoid this as one might any other calamity.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Feb 12, 2009

The entire film is a tedious string of pratfalls.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 12, 2009

Cheap-looking, and peddling a humour that charitable folks will call broad and the rest of us will call unfunny, Pink Panther 2 may still appeal to audiences in non-English-speaking countries where physical comedy in the Mr Bean mould prospers.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 12, 2009

A comedy with no redeeming features that may be, in what is now a depressingly competitive field, Martin's worst film to date.

| Feb 12, 2009

Possibly the most excruciating comedy of the year.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2009

feel free to sing along here: "It's a stinker, Pink Panther, your heart'll sinky-dink panther. And it's as plain as your noooose . . .You couldn't make a weaker, truly aby-si-mal, ranker Pink Panther from heeead-to-toooooes."

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 12, 2009

Martin has a few inspired moments but in order to get to them you have to wade through a mosh pit of unfunny gags.

| Original Score: C | Feb 9, 2009

Remember when Martin was funny?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 6, 2009

What is our reward for the collective effort of this prestigious assembly? One of the most dreadfully unnecessary movies in recent memory.

Full Review | Feb 6, 2009

The soundtrack makes generous use of trombones to indicate humor.

Full Review | Feb 6, 2009

One can only hope that something good is coming from all the bad movies that Steve Martin has been appearing in.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 6, 2009

Wasn't it bad enough the first time?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 6, 2009

There's a difference between kid-friendly and just regular old dumb.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 6, 2009