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This film is not bad. No, it is in fact EVIL. Pure Evil.

posted 16 years ago by HapHazzard
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The great creative force behind the Universe has reanimated the corpse of Peter Sellers, and he is shambling, stumbling, and dragging his way slowly, oh so slowly and inexorably towards Steve Martin. And when he finds him, he is going to smack him in the face not once, not twice, but roughly twenty five million times.

Steve Martin, save yourself from the threat of a zombie smackdown. Sellers has been dead for over two decades, and he's still a thousand times more talented than YOU. We used to enjoy your work - hell, you've made some funny films, but not for a long time now....and remaking The Pink Panther is an impossible task for someone at the height of their game, let alone someone on the downward slide of crappy 'family' comedies and money-motivated career choices. You failed the first time. People actually vomited from the violent nausea induced by your first Pink attempt. This film is worse. I actually died for three minutes and had to be resuscitated by a paramedic. Do you really want to kill a good portion of your audience...? STOP DESTROYING THE LEGACY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIE COMEDY SERIES OF ALL TIME.

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[–] criztu 16 years ago

maybe Steve Martin needs money to fly into space aboard a russian rocket !

[–] Scifi71 16 years ago

Evil?

[–] HapHazzard 16 years ago

Evil incarnate. Somewhere, some diabolical demon posing as the Hollywood exec who authorised this eyeball abuse is laughing, knowing he brought civilisation one step closer to Hell.

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[–] aciolino 16 years ago

Well said.

Unfortunately, Martin's ego is such that I fear (deeply) that what we have to look forward to is a re-make of Chaplin's "City Lights," with that monstrous ego in the lead.

Then, Keaton's, "The General," and why not, "It's a Wonderful Life?"

Zombies unite!

[–] rneil95 16 years ago

[–] HapHazzard 16 years ago

What I don't get is why you use the term "destroying the legacy." The legacy is still there. They're not burning every copy of the original in existence. You can still watch the originals. You don't have to watch these.

No, I don't, nor will I ever again. However a lot of younger people are watching these films and will never find the original films, will only know of Martin as Clouseau. As with lots of youger people, they will think of older films being somehow inferior to the modern version and will be much poorer in experience for it.

It's a tender love song, very beautiful. {Whats it called?} Lick my love pump.

[–] Ikonoeirei 16 years ago

As what, compared to knowing the Pink Panther as a cartoon, rather than a rock? Or not even knowing about it at all? With how ubiquitous the internet has become, many kids are looking things up whenever it strikes their fancy. They are watching this, look up pink panther on wikipedia, and find out about the originals. Stop running around, Chicken Little. The sky is still up there.

[–] HapHazzard 16 years ago

Ikonoeirei, some of them may well become aware of the originals, but how many of them will watch them? Hardly any at all....and if nowadays most people under 20 who know of The Pink Panther associate it with Steve Martin's abominations - they'd be better off never having known the Pink Panther at all. Some classics just shouldn't be touched, man, end of story.

It's a tender love song, very beautiful. {Whats it called?} Lick my love pump.

[–] ruderabbit 16 years ago

I appreciate what you're saying, I hate all these remakes. The most recent classic-raping would be TAKING OF PELHAM 123 and they have "ruined" great films like THE HEARTBREAK KID, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, PLANET OF THE APES, WILLY WONKA, the list goes on and on. But, let's be honest, while the PINK PANTHER series had moments of absolute genius, it was a pretty spotty affair overall. A SHOT IN THE DARK (the funniest) and RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER (just the coolest, imo) are by far the best films in the series. STRIKES AGAIN is okay, REVENGE pretty much sucks, the original PP is good but dated, and the movies "made" after Sellers' death are truly crap - sins of Blake Edwards himself! So, let's keep things in perspective.

[–] HapHazzard 15 years ago

Can't agree with you about the original Panther films being spotty - not the ones that starred Sellers, anyway. Every Panther film he made was just wonderful to me, they got funnier as they went and only slid after his death, getting worse and worse but it shows the truth to some of my statements - there is no Pink Panther without Peter Sellers. I mean, the first was a star vehicle for David Niven that was basically stolen by Sellers' performanc, hence the sequels starring Sellers. If even Blake Edwards, the guy who created it on film, couldn't recapture the majic without him, what on Earth was Steve Martin thinking...?

It's a tender love song, very beautiful. {Whats it called?} Lick my love pump.

[–] Scifi71 16 years ago

Ouch

[–] darkcollins 14 years ago

Ed Sikov, in his very fair and wonderfully written biography of Peter Sellers called Mr. Strangelove, notes the failed attempts by other actors (Alan Arkin, Roger Moore, Ted Wass, and Roberto Benigni) at playing Clouseau or Clouseau-types (before the Steve Martin remake/reboot), and quotes a member of the Peter Sellers Appreciation Society named Maxine Ventham, who says, "Clouseau would be unbearable-and is unbearable when played by other actors-if he didn't have those sad, vulnerable, dark eyes peering out at the world" (pg. 344).

Watch any of the original PP films with Sellers and I think most would agree.