Son of the Pink Panther

Name: Son of the Pink Panther
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: August 27, 1993
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 33
Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Debrah Farentino, Herbert Lom, Jennifer Edwards, Kenny Spalding

1993

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: August 27, 1993 | PG

Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Debrah Farentino, Herbert Lom, Jennifer Edwards, Kenny Spalding, Mark Schneider, Mike Starr, Robert Davi, Roberto Benigni, Shabana Azmi

Summary: Charles Dreyfus encounters Jacques Gambrelli, who reminds him painfully of Inspector Clouseau, the man who drove him insane. With good reason: Gambrelli is Clouseau's son.

Director: Blake Edwards

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime

Rating: PG

Runtime: 93 min

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Robert Faires

Benigni isn't the brilliant comic actor Sellers was but this Italian star (also seen in Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law and Night on Earth) is a genuine clown whose ability to flail his limbs as if possessed by a Slinky makes him a rich comic lead. Read full review

Bill Cosford

Blake Edwards returned to direct this time, and seems to have made the miscalculation that Benigni could carry the movie. One with less noble lineage, maybe. But the Pink Panther movies, largely because of Edwards' own brilliance at physical comedy, are very hard acts to follow. [01 Sep 1993, p.E3]

John Hartl

After a sprightly credits sequence in which the animated Pink Panther takes over conducting duties for Henry Mancini, while helping Bobby McFerrin doodle with the Panther theme Mancini composed 30 years ago, it's mostly downhill. It's been 10 years since the last Panther installment, yet Edwards seems exhausted. Read full review

Tom Green

What Edwards doesn't bring to the party is an entertaining story. Something about a princess abducted by evil Robert Davi, who has done some great movie bad guys, but seems uninterested here. Benigni deserves another chance to strut the stuff that has made him a box-office phenom in Italy. [31 Aug 1993, p.5D]

Jay Carr

Son of the Pink Panther is merely lame and labored as it huffs and puffs over a plot involving the kidnapping of a Middle Eastern princess, Debrah Farentino, from her yacht anchored off Nice. With frequent explosions taking the place of wit and style, it plays like stuff James Bond left on the cutting room floor 30 years ago. [28 Aug 1993, p.26]

Ty Burr

Son of the Pink Panther isn’t an unwatchable mess like 1982’s Curse of the Pink Panther; it trots along quickly with series veterans like Herbert Lom adding needed class. But there’s a void at the center of this film about Inspector Clouseau’s long-lost son, and its name is Roberto Benigni. Where Peter Sellers’ Clouseau had a blissfully out-of-it officiousness, the Italian comedian’s sole shtick is to beam idiotically. He’s that ruinous oxymoron: an unsurprising clown. Read full review

Jay Boyar

This movie will finally kill off the series. Read full review

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FilipeNeto

Jun 5, 2022

People say that presumption is like holy water, each one takes what they want. And Blake Edwards, out of conceit, vanity, stubbornness or greed, could not understand that the entire Pink Panther franchise was long dead when he released this ultimate film, an inglorious, almost shameful swanPeople say that presumption is like holy water, each one takes what they want. And Blake Edwards, out of conceit, vanity, stubbornness or greed, could not understand that the entire Pink Panther franchise was long dead when he released this ultimate film, an inglorious, almost shameful swan song for a franchise that deserved to have had a most worthy and honorable end. In fact, with the death of Peter Sellers, the franchise lost all viability and continuing it, movie after movie, was a mistake that Edwards couldn't recognize.

In this film, the plot picks up several loose ends from the first films, over thirty years old, to build a new story where the princess of Lugash is kidnapped by a terrorist. In the middle of the escape, the terrorist is stopped by Jacques Gambrelli, a young policeman with little sense and very idiot, who lets him escape out of sheer naivety, and to the astonishment of Commissioner Dreyfus. Only later does it come to be discovered that this policeman is, in fact, the son of the late Inspector Clouseau and Maria Gambrelli, who the inspector had previously assisted in one of his cases.

The problem I felt the most with this film is the absolutely idiotic plot, and the almost crazy and obscene way in which Blake Edwards tries to make money off of past successes without giving us anything truly new and worthwhile. Slapstick comedy is very much present here, as it has always been in this franchise, but the resources used are old, worn out and not surprising us anymore.

The cast also leaves a lot to be desired, making me wonder how much they really wanted to be involved in a project so inevitably doomed. Herbert Lom and Claudia Cardinale try to do everything they can to save their work, but all their effort is ruined by the weakness of the work done by Robert Davi, Debrah Farentino and, most importantly, Roberto Benigni. The film could not be saved.

With lackluster but functional cinematography and an elegant and funny animated opening credits sequence, the film manages reasonably well on the technical aspects. The filming locations were well selected, but sometimes poorly used, the editing is neither the best nor the most inspired and the pace of the film is exasperating and tiring.… Expand

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