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PINK PANTHER 2 is getting way too good of a cast for what it's likely to end up being...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Let me get this out of the way. I love Steve Martin. That's why it saddens me to see him doing crappy movies. He could still do amazing work and still does from time to time. SHOPGIRL wasn't the best movie ever, but compared to the CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN series it's a magnificent achievement.
I tried watching his PINK PANTHER remake. I did. I tried watching it on an airplane, I tried watching it on TV... but I just couldn't bring myself to finish it.
Amazingly, the much whispered about sequel is actually going forward with a cast that kind of pisses me off. It's too good. I'm going to have to watch the first all the way through now and sit through this one in the theater... Here we go... John Cleese, Alfred Molina and Andy Garcia have joined the flick.
Cleese will be Chief Inspector Dreyfuss while Molina, Garcia and Aishwarya Rai will be detectives and experts who join up with Clouseau to stop an artifact stealing thief.
Damn!
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AISH BOLLYWOOD 4evr
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It was as close to a life story of myself that I will ever see on celluloid...but wow, being from an intellectual south asian background sure is mundane. why anyone would make a movie about a typical indian college PHD immigrant story is beyond me...Godfather on the other hand....
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and find the funny. What happened to The Man With Two Brains or All of Me?
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and I still regret it. Stinking pile of garbage. The whole production should be put on a rocket with all existing copies of the film and shot into the sun! And not a day too soon!
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....once and for all. How many more sad footnotes to a great comedy career does he want to add??
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screw this
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Like an elderberry plant.... Actually, they are good for you.
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... name me John Cleese's last GOOD movie. For that matter, Molina & Garcia too - and don't give me that Ocean's crap, 'cause it won't stick.
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that had to do w/ that piece of shit movie they made.
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Aug 09, 2007 4:15:09 AM CDT
Can someone place Steve Martin in a chair & tie him up?
by filmcritic3000
I mean, the man's talented. The novel "Shopgirl" was terrific. But instead of getting the brilliant Steve Martin of years past, we're getting lame-ass bullshit from hack directors like Adam Shankman, Shawn Levy and Harald Zwart. His last good movie was "Bowfinger" and while that wasn't a four-star film, it wasn't "who the fuck greenlit this piece of shit" bad like the last 9,000 movies Martin's been in.
As a previous poster said, Steve needs to find the funny again. -
And can't help but think what actors can do to a movie, eh.I haven't see Stardust yet.
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said recently that all british tv comedy should be made the american way. what a load of bollocks. I love Star stories. I would love to see them have a right good at cleese. Cleese is far too wealthy to give a shit anymore. In fact they all are. I loved plain early travel series. around the world and pole to pole etc. the rest i think are boring. What wont be boring speaking of travel series, is the new series of three men in a boat in which Dara O briain(another guy i cant stand, though mock the week is good) rory McGrath and griff rhys jones have to start their journey where they finished and in Griff's boat. O' Braian said that that all the camaraderie that was built up after the first series, ended about 5 seconds after this trip began. Back to Cleese, Well, sitting in your Beverly hills Mansion, complete with swimming pool gives one a perspective on life that cant be summed up thus. I dont have to work again, I am a comedy god. You all hated the first movie, well, i have more money then you. so sod off......
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Gone is the Monty Python/ Fawlty towers genius. A fish called wanda was really the last time he was funny and he followed that with the execrable Fierce Creatures. Check out his annoying Harry Potter cameos for the very embodiment of smug twat. with the rest of the pythons- only Gilliam is still great: Palin makes shitty travel documentaries aimed squarly at middle aged women, Idle had to rewrite Holy Grail for Broadway, Chapman obviously is dead, and fuck knows what Jones is doing now.
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we're shit at aping American comedy- witness the unfunny mess that is My Family.
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For the love of all humanity kill this abortive incubus before it rots its way from the screen to infect all film lovers with it's putrid festering laugh vacuum.
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You're right though nothing can stop Emily Mortimer looking as hot as a very hot thing with a special reason to be HOT..!
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...since the eighties. Maybe one or two decent 'straight' acting roles in that time (such as Grand Canyon and Spanish Prisoner), and an ever so rare comic effort that was actually entertaining (Bowfinger) but other than that it's been a damn long time since Martin did anything other than cashed a check. Sad, but true.
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say what you want about PP1, but that scene was hilarious.
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Yes, I worshiped at the altar of STEVE back in the 70s. His was the only "Fan Club" I ever joined - I've still got the "Steve Martin Is A Personal Friend Of Mine" bumper sticker, and the Wild and Crazy Times newspapers. Which makes it all the sadder for me to see what's happened to his career since, oh, 1990 or so. It's like watching Willie Mays when he played for the Mets: just plain sad. But at least Mays fans only had to endure a year or so of Old Man Mays flailing away - Steve's decline is slower and much more painful to witness.
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My 11 year old step-daughter loves The Pink Panther movie Steve made, part of the reason might be a singer that's in the movie. So, lets see if if this next one does as well without her.
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Is classic Martin. It's like the scene in Bruce Almighty where Bruce is fucking with Evan in that it's a truly funny, nay, hysterically funny scene in a POS film. Just give Martin complete control over the script and it will be funny, guaranteed (just look at Bowfinger).
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That could actually produce laughs..
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The touble was that Martin copied Sellars but he didn't copy Sellars in the ealry films where Sellars could get a laugh just by raising an eyebrow. He copied the Sellars from the latter films where he relied on stupid desguises, pratt falls, fart jokes and his terrible accent. Just rent 'A Shot in the Dark' to see comedic genius.
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ascel and frg. repeat after me: Peter Sellers was a genius and remakes are shit.I would actually consider the fact that an 11 year old girl liked it (and even then only for one reason)proof that it is shit
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no Cleese "as" Basil Fawlty= good. Cleese since 1997= shit.
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is putting his history and archeology degree to good use and is doing stuff like The barbarians and is a writer and ocassionally does tv adaptations such as the big budget wind in the willows christmas spectacular last year. He also turns up sometimes in newspapers. And wrote a very funny column for the observer excoriating bush war on terror by likening him to a mad man who is looking for something in cul de sac while driving a sherman tank. He of course doesnt find what he is looking for and doesnt realise that he has destroyed the entire cul de sac. None of the pyhtons made any money out of it. Cleese however is wealthy because he set up Video arts and enjoys massive royalty checks from that. idle made fortune from Music and enjoys the revenue from the one foot in the grave song and the Rutles. Palin and jones however have not done that well out of pyhton. Which is why Palin had to do those travel shows. and jones you dont hear much from him.
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what is the point then?
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is quite possibly the hottest woman ever of all time.
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He was horrible as Nick. When he pitched up his dialogue may as well have been "Hi, I'm John Cleese and I'm in harry Potter". Horrid stunt casting.Also, Emeraldboy- jones has quite a good reputation as a scholar of Medieval English (I shit you not)- and stuff like Erik The Viking and even Holy grail are rooted in this. Just one correction, there was a documentary on Channel 4 a few months ago, and Idle was skint until he returned to rape the corpse of python with Spamalot.
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a memeber of Destiny's Child get's murdered. It was the only good bit of Freddy v Jason. Kelly Rowland getting hit in the head with a machete made me smile for days.
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and remember the night when they comprehensibly carved up the holy grail. The problem with the pythons is that the material has aged and it is now dated very badly. Yes they were groundbreaking for their time(the 1960's). it was considred fresh. The war gave birth to the goons and by the time python came the goons were considered passe. now, today it is the pythons who are very old, rich men. It was all very cambridge and oxford. and this was all around the time of tolkien, when you think about it. Stuffy old men, women knew thier place and that is what Carol Cleaveland found out. As paddy kielty pointed now it all about celebs. I am celebrity, Celebrity big brother and of course fame academy, celebrity love island. Which is why we need Star Stories more and more.
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I saw that documentary and very good it was too. If you read Bob McCabes book Pyhtons by the pythons, which will be the only Biography of the group. They techically havent disbanded. thats is for the person who cleese killed them off. They possible have been but. The pythons legacy means that they will be the pythons forever. they dont need to reform. They even created the concept of the mockumentary. there were regions in the UK that could get the pythons. so the pythons would create "serious" programs anout differrent things. The pythons called them Mock docs. the goodies reformed but without bill oddie. He did some video stuff for them. but did not appear on stage with graham and tim in their tour.
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Patrick kielty is an unfunny overexposed cunt only fit for fronting shitty BBC rip offs of reality TV. Star Stories does indeed rule all, tomorrow its simon cowell's turn. I hate newsnight review. I still haven't forgiven them for blowing the last shot of Blair Witch Project for me. Especially as it was the only good bit of the film.
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and none of them are ever likely to starve to death.
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In fact python quit at it's peak. I can watch life of brian over and over again.
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Our local NPR station had a bit this morning indicating that the production was budgeted at 70 million and that Boston will double for Paris.
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is the only film to recieve a lifetime ban in irish cinemas. It is now available on dvd. But the fact that it is stil banned in ireland's cinemas is an outrage.
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Natural born killers was also given a lifetime ban too but it like brian is available on DVD and can be seen on british tv. life of brian was on Rte once there a couple of years, they dont show it very often.
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I'm praying this doesn't suck.
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is now rather dated, with the odd classic sketch still funny 40 years on. The films though are all time greats (well - Holy Grail and Life of Brian are) and certainly have stood the test of time. Cleese however is a total and utter hack . Every role he plays and every film he "graces" with his presence is just an unrestricted turd. I didn't care for him much in the Bond films but at least they still remained decent. He also produces God awful cameos in TV shows that should know better. Lets have a quick look at some of the shit he's done of late: Shrek 3 (voice), Around The World in 80 Days, Will & Grace cameo, Charlies Angels 2 (God that cameo was awful), Pluto Nash, Rat Race. He was also in Fierce Creatures (shit), Splitting Heirs (also shit) - in fact using IMDB you have to go all the way back to 1988 and A Fish Called Wanda to find the last time this man made a decent film. Thats 20 fucking years. He has completely soiled the God-like comedy genius status he once earned by coasting on past glories whilst raking in the money churning out abomination after abomination. Clees: go fuck thyself.
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a collection of performers for a mere paycheck
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"Cleese has been a sell out cunt for ages" seriously I thought I wrote that and I said 'I don't remember making a post', you are talking like me, what the fuck cunt? stealing my fucking style?
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I see Cleeseitus spreading to old Ricky Gervais. Cleese came out with 2 great TV series, Gervais has done the same (fuck it I think Extras is a 1000 times funnier than most other shit). They then moved to America and started slagging off British comedy (Gervais belittles it all the time). Americans fawn all over them and tell them enough times that they are comedy Gods until they start to believe it. They then start making unfunny cameos in films they shouldn't even be in (-cough-Night at The Museum-cough-)until eventually you and they have forgotten why they were funny in the first place and they simply show up to make themselves even more disgustingly rich. Cleese took 20 years to do this, Gervias may do it in 5. He's not quite there yet, I am still hoping he carries on to bigger and better things - but the warning signs are all there.
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it's for this shit? What a waste.
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Molina's too good for this. After "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Spidey 2," I hold him in very high regard. Even if his character double-crossed Indy.
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I bumped into Cleese in the car park of Uphill Manor Hotel, Weston-Super-Mare in March 1999. There was no-one else about, at all, and I said "excuse me Mr Cleese, I'm a huge fan of your work and I'd just like to say thanks for making me laugh allot" and held out my hand for him to shake. His response was to ignore my outstretched hand, mutter something incomprehensible but decidedly unfriendly, and get into his Jaguar. Very very tall man though.
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Why someone who attained something akin to comedy god status in his own right feels content to rape the rotting corpses of Peter Sellars and Phil Silvers (yes, I saw BILKO) is beyond me. Make a film with Carl Reiner again before it's too late, you hack.
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...does the coloring and overall "look" of the Rush Hour 3 ad up top resemble the ads for Snakes on a Plane? Shamoan!
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...collection. As in the fat paycheck for his latest crappy re-make of a great or crappy comedy, or crappy sequel to aforementioned, equals another amazing masterpiece sangged at auction. Everyone knows this and we forgive him because he really is intelligent, charming, has great taste, and has, at one time, or another, made us laugh like hell. Nobody's making anyone see Bringin' Down the House IV, but everyone should also be wised up by now. As with Bowfinger, Martin will let us know the next time he makes something funny, should there be a next time.
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Steve has some gold nuggets in his backyard, but PP and probably PP2 are, like many of his recent films, hot steaming turds. Not sure why he does 'em.
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to be in this. Someone connected to the film must have secret naked photos of Alfred doing nasty things and threatened to take 'em public or something.
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all of me with queen latifah.
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It effects all once great performers. Remember Robin, whoopy, Martin short. The virus creeps up on them all very slowly and when they are least expecting it. turns once great performers into lumering zombies. It sucks away their creative juices and turns their careers to shit. This is off topic. but about ten years ago Tom cruise would be let in to nightclub in the world. This week, if there is any doubt that his credibility is all shot to hell, he and his soon to be ex-wife(rumours at this stage but they are growing everyday) Katie Holmes(she is said to frustrated with toms beliefs) were refused entry to a Nigthclub in St. tropez on the grounds that the club was packed. rival club let them and a person said he looked out of place disco dancing with one of those sticks that light up. Cruise's days are numbered too. If his new movie bombs in december, that list of people who queuing to work with him is gonna shrink something rapid. Sad to see all these people bombing, Martin, cruise, cleese, Murphy, who is next, i wonder? By the way has anyone seen vin Diesel's career lately. Looks like the kiditis virus has effected him to.
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he was the only french in the first movie...
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Didn't love, didn't dramatically loathe it with every crust of my being. Sure a lot of the jokes failed but it had a great energy. Bunch of prudes in here.I'd seen some of the latter Pink Panthers and it wasn't as bad as those.People need to get off the "remakes suck" band wagon and realise that they are just one of the many sub-genres currently floating around for filmmakers today.
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Had extremely low expectations, and it actually turned out better than I thought. Martin was hilarious -- you could tell he was NOT phoning it in. Decent dialogue, too. And Bonnie Hunt looked really hot.
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Beyonce's involvement. I'm surprised it made enough money to garner a sequel.
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Okay, it wasn't Wanda, but it's still hilarious. Especially as a companion to Wanda -- compare everyone's roles in the two films, especially Palin. And TWINE was a good Bond movie. Denise Richards was laughable, but the rest was very good (best theme song since Goldeneye, too). I'd been calling for Cleese to replace Q when the time came for years before that was announced.
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At least, she was in Fiece Creatures (the blonde girl)
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Or at least another project like it. I thought they were gonna be back back back after that movie, but they flushed it all away for bad family comedys with fat suits & Eugine Levy cameos! Bring on Chubby Rain & Fake Purse Ninjas!!
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I read a while back that they were going to make this a classier flick and not just some run-of-the-mill Americanized comedy. They should really call this one "A Shot in the Dark."
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is a fucking funny movie, and Sellars is awesome in it. Weirdly enough, the screenplay's by EXORCIST writer William Peter Blatty...
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No excueses. if this piece of shit can get a sequel, then Warner Bros better greenlight TMNT 2.
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I can't believe there's a sequel for this movie. I couldn't even watch the first 5 minutes of Pink Panther 1.
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That was the best one, hands down. Doomesday Machine, Lesley-Anne Down, Blake Edwards and Peter Sellars in their prime.
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The one thing that was funny in the first one was Steve Martin's French accent. For some reason, his accent amuses me. I enjoyed the movie very much. "I wood like to buy a demburguar". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK1tFCc5pAg
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Tony Wilson the man behind factory records and the hacienda club in Manchester died tonight of kidney cancer. He was 57.
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The last i heard they were talking to steve martin about reprsing his role from the first movie. The novie will be directed by adam shankman. Latifah will star and score the movie.
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I'm not a movie snob or anything; in fact, I usually enjoy stupid movies like the first Pink Panther. However, I must admit I fell asleep watching it. Possibly because I saw it on Thanksgiving. Anyway...
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just utterly exploitative and unnecessary.
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