Why is it called Pink Panther 2?

i get the impression from the trailer that the diamond was donated to a museum or something between the events of the '06 movie and this one...

i really dislike the "2" for the same reason Sylvester mentioned, but i guess this is the 2nd movie since the series rebooted, so it's not an awful concept... it would have been MILES better, though, if they'd gone with a better title - one similarto the Panther films from the 70s/80s... even "Pink Panther Deux" (which was one of the working titles) would have been better, IMO... it's amazing that such a small thing as changing "2" to "Deux" even makes that much of a difference (being that they mean the same thing), but for me, it does... "Deux" just feels more right, if you ask me...

but whatever...

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My issue is with the "2" in the title. When I saw the last one, I figured they'd call the sequel "Pink Panther 2" and told myself I wouldn't mind, but technically it's Pink Panther 11
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That's because Steve Martin and crew would like to pretend that the Peter Sellers films never existed and that Martin's "reinvention" of the character is the only valid "Pink Panther" in existence. They've wiped the original films from canon and want their own pathetic humorless tripe to be associated with THE Pink Panther franchise. If people dare find out there's a REAL "Pink Panther 2" film out there called "A Shot in the Dark", they'd watch it INSTEAD and find its 10 times more exciting, funny, and creative than this formulaic crap. Then no one would bother watching Martin’s crapfest when it comes to DVD. And we can't have that, can we?

After a certain point in the series, they just felt that the series was more about Inspector Clouseau than it ever was the titular Pink Panther - so they just called the movies Pink Panther whether or not the Pink Panther diamond was in the movie or not.