The Pink Panther

Sacre bleu! Bumbling French police inspector Jacques Clouseau is back, and he's never been less funny. Despite the title, this weak addition to the PINK PANTHER series isn't a remake of the 1964 Blake Edwards classic, but a prequel that casts Steve Martin in the role Peter Sellers made famous then wore out over the course of four sequels (1982's TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER is a morbid hodgepodge Edwards cobbled out of old footage two years after Sellers' death). Clouseau, whose incompetence as a provincial gendarme has become the stuff of legend in Paris (he's seen arresting a basset hound and a baby before collaring Pierre Fouquat himself for the murder of Pier...