I dont see why everyone hates this movie

the purpose is to entertain, nothing more

I disagree. The clear purpose of a remake is to remake the original. Therefore, the remake of The Pink Panther fails utterly in every aspect of its mission. If the purpose was merely to entertain then they could easily have made a crappy 'original' movie, rather than a blasphemous and painful-to-endure remake of a much-loved and inimitable classic.

The very nature of a remake implies "we can do it better than the other guys did." It's controversial enough remaking classic horror movies, but at least with those it can be fairly (if not always accurately) argued that the effects will be improved. But when you're remaking a comedy vehicle, which is what the Pink Panther Films essentially are, you are doomed to failure from the get-go. Clouseau will forever be Peter Seller's character. He created him. He owns him. No one else can be him, unless they're portraying Sellers as Clouseau, as in the case of Geoffrey Rush in "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers". In that movie it was an impersonation of the character in a biopic about its creator, and worked pretty well for that reason. (It was actually rather impressive, much like Robert Downey Jr in "Chaplin".)

Bottom line: It's very bad form for one comic to steal another comic's material! And that's exactly how this remake feels.

I'd suggest that you try out the originals (all of them), but as another poster has already observed, anyone who enjoyed the remake "won't get" the original.

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