PINK PANTHER 2 IS STILL CONFUSING
11.07.08Maybe it’s because the original came out the year my dad graduated from high school, but I just don’t get The Pink Panther. I like Steve Martin, but there’s really absolutely nothing about this that appeals to me. Am I too young? Or maybe not sophisticated enough to appreciate retarded slapstick of this caliber? Are they being ironic? I can’t even tell anymore.
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Do I like “slapstick”? Yes, but probably because my definition is different.
On the other hand, the Pink Pussycat is spectacular.
The Peter Sellers versions are awesome. High Thetan levels may block its humor.
However, the Steve Martin remake(s?) are an abomination. Why remake something so perfect with something so over the top awful?
Black Panthers hold their fists in the air to signify solidarity; Pink Panthers use their fists for other things.
I saw 13.78 seconds of a trailer for the first Pink Panther remake and pissed blood for like, two days.
Wierd.
Maybe if you think of it less as a slapstick comedy and more like the defiling and rape of a corpse.
i had to register just so i could comment on the sad decline of the once terrifically-funny Steve Martin. THIS is what he has been reduced to? And please tell me that wasn’t comedy great John Cleese in there too?! Oh, the humanity. This is just awful…can President Obama pre-emptively ban a movie from theaters?
Pink Panthers have great camouflage in their natural hunting grounds: Amusement park cotton candy machines.
I’ve always wondered what the Naked Gun is like in France. I’m still wondering.
My third-grade soccer team was nicknamed the Pink Panthers because of our base-issued uniforms.
I got red-carded as often as possible…
Does anyone actually remember the original? Because I do. His “little yellow friend” that would attack him all the time? So racist, yet so funny.
Exit, stage left!
*softshoes off stage*
oops! Wrong gay feline.
I don’t know about any pink panthers, but I’ve been cleaning up with the silver cougars at Shady Acres.
Someone put him out of his misery and shoot an arrow through his head already.
Pink Panther = Diamond
Black Panther = A different suit.
i had to register just so i could comment on the sad decline of the once terrifically-funny Steve Martin. THIS is what he has been reduced to?
This is much funnier if you put on a helmet and read it like Howard Cosell.
You guys think Jean Reno and Natalie Portman still have like a friends with benefits thing?
Stoney, what isn’t?
Schindler’s list Donk.
Nevermind. That was still pretty funny.
I was going to ask why nobody bothered to make the cartoons into a movie, as awesome as they were, but a Disney exec with an itchy fuckup finger might be reading this.
As a punishment to Steve Martin for making another Pink Panther, someone should do a remake of The Jerk with Norm MacDonald.
Naw slyOn, the remake should star Chris Tucker. Kick the legs out from under that movie starting at joke ONE!
I used to love Steve. The drunk test scene in The Man with Two Brains kills me everytime.
“Damn your drunk tests are hard!”
HAhahahHA! (see)
Duly noted, Direcrapmuttbaskettastic. The other alternative:
“Rob Schneider! Dee der dee dee dee der, The Jerk! Rated PG-13″.
I hate the Pink Panther. Who the fuck uses a cartoon mascot to sell fiberglass insulation that looks like cotton candy? Assholes that who. My childhood consisted of waiting to pass insulation.
Vince, this is what happens when your only idea of humor involves a Judd Apatow movie: a constant stream of dick jokes, drawing dick jokes, masturbation jokes, fart jokes, and shit jokes.
Most of the people who spend money on movies disagree with you since the movie made 82 million in the U.S.
Go watch another stupid movie about some loser who chases his ex to Hawaii or something. The rest of us will enjoy real comedy.
Will do!
Look, like I said, I like Steve Martin, I just don’t get Pink Panther. I like a lot of other old comedy shit – Three Stooges, Monty Python, etc. – I just don’t get the Pink Panther thing. I won’t say it’s solely because it’s slapstick, because the Three Stooges were almost entirely slapstick, but something about Pink Panter just seems really dated to me. And don’t tell me I don’t understand it because it’s so witty and intelligent, it’s about a fucking French dude who falls down. Oh, and keep telling me how much money it made as an explanation of how good it is. Know whose comedy albums make a shitload of money? Larry the Cable Guy.