Pink Panther, Can Steve Martin Pull It Off???

[dynamix]

Anybody seen this yet?

Waddaya think Styxx, Does Martin have the chopps for this one?

[etLux]

Steve who? Martin? That Italian singer fellow with the moon-hits-yer-eye-like-a-big-pizza-pie tune -- used to be with Jerry Lewis? He's dead, isn't he? A wonder he's still acting... most people give it up when they're dead.

David.
www.DavidSosnowski.com
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[DPDAN]

Hi Erik,
I'll can't answer for Styxx, although he is very busy reading his Kontakt 2 manual. :p
As much as I like Steve Martin's acting, I would not want to watch anyone but Peter Sellars do any of those Pink Panther movies. I just watched "Revenge Of The Pink Panther" the other day and it is so great.

thar she blows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dan :D

[FredProgGH]

No. He will not pull it off and he's a whore and a jerk (no pun intended) for making remakes like this and the Ceaper By The Dozen flicks instead of great comedic films in his own style like The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and Man With Two Brains.

[CallMeZoot]

I'm with you. Steve Martin is very funny--in fact one of the funniest people out there in my opinion. But there was only one Peter Sellars, and when he died so did Inspector Clouseau.

I didn't think Geoffrey Rush did it well either. In general I have a problem with actors trying to imitate real people, especially real people who are/were in the public eye very recently. It's almost always very superficial--mannerisms, facial experessions, gestures, tone of voice, etc.--but they never get the *essence,* especially if the person they're imitating was a larger-than-life personality. It also strikes me as kind of morbid and disrespectful.

It's one thing to imitate a person, but to imitate a character that that person brought to life? That's like wearing the dead guy's underwear and giving his wife a foot massage. Sigh. Steve Martin is brilliant in his own right, he should stay out of other brilliant peoples' territory.

Oh, and let's not forget. Henry Mancini's dead too. His work was as essential to the Pink Panther as Peter Sellars'.

chris.

[thesoundsmith]

an Steve Martin Pull It Off? No.
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As stated above, his career is in a bad rut, remakes of classics instead of creating his own. He's funny, he's bright, but he is no Peter Sellers

[rikp]

FYI, I think that the movie got two thumbs down!!!!


Peace

rikp

[fastlane]

Michiel Medved's Review.


http://www.eyeonentertainment.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/eye_213_pinkpanther.mp3

[Styxx]

Honestly? I'm with DPDAN. There will never be another Peter Sellers. BUT! Steve Martian is a brilliant comedian in his own style and probably is about the only one who might have a good chance at pulling it off. Sadly, as a big BIG BIG fan of Peter Sellers and The Pink Panther movies ... I will not even bother to even rent the DVD when it comes out.
So there you swine!:D

[tgfoo]

I loved the original Pink Panther/Inspector Clouseau movies. I had actually planned to watch the new Pink Panther remake (despite the fact that I know most remakes are crap compared to the originals, IMO) but then I heard from several people that it was a complete let down. So instead I decided to save my 8 bucks and invest it in something more useful (like the original DVDs :D )

[dynamix]

Well, then. Wow! My greatest fears confirmed!

I heard Martin wrote this one from scratch.

I saw the promo and immediatly thought Kevin Kline would be better as Clouseau.

Well, I already have the PP DVDs...

I guess I'm just gonna save my 8 bucks too and put that towards a copy of 'Trains, Planes and Automobiles'...

One of Martin's finer films, John Candy RIP.

Any Bowfinger fans out there?

[jsp2]

I loved the Pink Panther movies as a kid... Hilarious.!!

But i'm not sure that form of nonsensical, clumsy humor is very funny these days... would be kind of like remaking "The Three Stooges" ...(hahaha... loved them as a kid too!!!)

Trains, Planes & Automobiles?.... perhaps one of the best comedies ever made!

I relay enjoyed him in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" too.... I was hoping the Pink Panther would be more along that line of humor rather than focus on the physical stuff..... but then that was the Inspector's character!


....perhaps i'll wait for the DVD

[Paul Blankenau]

I saw a bit of the preview; it was flat. If a comedy can't find one minute of good material for a preview, it's best to stay far away from the movie.

I agree that Mancini made big contributions to the original movies. Anyone hear a score for the new one?

[PaulR]

Well, then. Wow! My greatest fears confirmed!


The trouble is with this is - you get so steeped in the original character definition as played by Peter Sellars - who btw - was completely and utterly mad basically. It's like getting another comic actor to do his final scene as Dr Strangelove when he gets up out of the wheel chair and accidently calls the President mien Fuhrer for instance. It's almost impossible to imagine how much funnier that could be from anyone else.

Steve Martin was and is a tremendously funny actor. But you're never going to get stuff like Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid or The Man Who Had Two Brains from him again. Or Parenthood.

I liked him when he was doing standup. The bits with the balloons for instance.

[M.A.S>]

I have an odd and convoluted take on Peter Sellers and Steve Martin. And all things Pink Panther.

Sellers was a genius. Loved him in Strangelove.

Never liked the PP films.

Blake Edwards (original PP Director) created one of my top personal favorite films "The Great Race".

Still couldn't get into the PP films.

Hank Mancini of course was the musical voice behind both films as well as so many other Edwards projects. I knew Hank.

Still didn't get into the PP thing.

Steve Martin: Can't stand 'The wild and crazy guy' persona.

Yet, he created another of my favorite films: "L.A. Story".

No point to my rambling. Just thoughts.


Shutting up.



Michael

[dynamix]

Great Race and LA Story. Two great flicks.

And yes, Sellars was a egomaniacal maniac.

A fabulous HBO film...

'The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers' You've got to rent this sucker if you missed it. Geoffrey Rush is amazing as Sellers.

I too was amazed that there was not enough material to put together a decent trailer.

Seems our resident Clousseau expert Styxx has called it.

Hey Styxx! Holy Cow! You've got more stars than McDonalds has hamburgers!!!

[PaulR]

Hank Mancini of course was the musical voice behind both films as well as so many other Edwards projects. I knew Hank.


Don't forget Saul Bass.

[Styxx]

Hey Styxx! Holy Cow! You've got more stars than McDonalds has hamburgers!!! Wish they were pizzas. :D

[PaulR]

And lets not forget that other great Edwards/Mancini collaboration, Breakfast at Tiffany's. Not withstanding the totally offensive Mickey Rooney role of course. Tom

Yeah - I watched that on DVD the other evening - it's always good and it will take on an even more indirect significance at this years Oscars I suspect. ;)

Also - with Peter Sellars - a weird Blake Edwards one called I Love You Alice B Tocklass.

Hash Brownies!