I've seen most, if not all of the PP movies. But I get confused by the titles. Revenge, Return, etc. And some of them is not as funny. I wasnt sure if it is Revenge or Return.
So, can you put down the funny titles and the not funny. I wanted to purchase the funny ones only.
Thanks!
A lot of these movies are boring, others are pure cash cows.
Then there are the really weird attempts at something that didn't quite work.
Then there are awful remakes without Sellers, and that one mish-mash movie put together from leftover pieces.
In the earlier movies, the formula (if such even exists) hadn't quite been perfected yet, and they suffer from too much random stuff and boring "non-Sellers"-scenes, non-interesting stories and so on (this movie falls under that category - it's not QUITE there yet, even Cato/Kato isn't as funny as he's going to be later on).
Ultimately, this means that only 'The Return of the Pink Panther' is the PEAK movie in this particular 'franchise' (if you want to call it that).
I don't understand why they made the first movie (possibly the most boring movie ever), or the 'modern remakes' (possibly the WORST movies, at least worst 'reboots' or 'remakes' or 'sequels' ever, where the characters were not understood at all, and unnecessary crap was shoved in, perhaps in hopes that -something- would stick), but at least there is one redeeming movie.
However, even THAT movie comes with plenty of boredom - Niven would've been better in the role of the Phantom, this other, non-charisma dullface just doesn't deliver anything but yawns and boredom - simultaneously.
In 'The Return of the Pink Panther', Closeau's accent is the funniest, and people's reactions to him are the best, and his deadpan delivery of visual silliness is top notch, as well as Dreyfus is shown to be as mad, crazy and insane as he's ever going to get while still retaining his job, and after he loses it (in more meanings than one), what happens is just absolutely perfect and hilarious. Talk about the perfect ending to a movie!
I am watching these other movies just to see if any of them are any good, perhaps I have misjudged them. So far, it seems I was right the first time - the other movies are either boring, not fleshed-out enough yet,bad remakes with no value,etc
You could say this movie is pretty funny, but there's nothing in it that isn't done better and in a more funnier and energetic way in better movies, and Closeau is surprisingly dull and boring - as well as overly serious without much quipping - in this one. He even falls a bit towards the old 'Darling'-routine of the first movie, which almost made me tear out my hair.
It's supposed to be COMEDY, use funnier words than 'darling', damnit. There are zillions of 'terms of endearment' that would've been funnier than constant 'darling, darling'. It would've been comical if they had come up with some kind of original and inventive terms instead of 'darling, sweet darling'. This was done MASTERFULLY in the old TV show, ''Allo 'Allo', when they started calling each other names of vegetables and such, and climaxed the joke with mention of a 'heckuva soup' if I remember correctly. Beats repetition of 'darling' and 'sweet' ad nauseum without a punchline.
In that TV show, it was even done with a deadpan, serious delivery without ever trying to sound silly.
Sellers' schtick is very underdeveloped in this movie, he screams in an unfunny voice a lot, and makes other people scream unnaturally as well (In the 'explanation scene' near the end, just before he reverses into the table and accidentally turns it over, the all-white-dressed woman screams really annoyingly)
This is not yet a good movie, it's not yet particularly funny. It even opens slowly and annoyingly, we have to spend like 5 or more minutes with slow, crappy music while people just sneak from room to room. Yaaaaawn!
There's a definitely an argument to be made for this opinion.
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