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Oy. I can't stand even watching the comercials for that movie.

Lord in heaven

Steve Martin used to be funny. What the hell happened to him?

Can't that idiot take a fucking hint? Peter Sellars was funny because he was Peter Sellars. The man managed to upstage David Niven. You can't simply ape his performance and expect the same result.

I don't think he's even bothered about the comedy any more to be honest. He's still got some name recognition, and he just seems content to whore that out for whatever paycheck he can get, regardless of how stupid and unfunny the result is.

The only thing good about the first remake was Kevin Kline. That's it. Steve Martin looked like he was about to crack up every time he spoke a line. Peter Sellars was so magnificent as this role I thought he really was an incompetent French policeman. The man knew how to sell the character of Inspector Clouseau. Please Steve Martin, no more.

Rewatch The Jerk, and then watch any of his more recent stuff; the decline in quality is drastic, and rather sad. He's a bit like Eddie Murphy in that respect - they both used to be funny, and now settle for whatever work comes their way...

I suppose I can't blame him. If somebody came and told me I could make a stupid and unfunny movie every few years for a million dollars a time, I'd jump at it.

The problem is that he used to be very funny, so now he knows that he can just live off his reputation for being funny, without really putting any effort into it.

GrahamKennedy wrote:I suppose I can't blame him. If somebody came and told me I could make a stupid and unfunny movie every few years for a million dollars a time, I'd jump at it.

Didn't Michael Caine say "I never saw Jaws 4, but by all reports it was awful. I did, however, see the house that it bought, and that was lovely"

Yes indeed he did. And who can blame him

I never saw the first Pink Panther remake, and I won't see this. But yes, it's a shame, because Steve Martin's SNL work, as well as films like The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, and The Man With Two Brains were so great.

He caught Chevy Chase-itis