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Title: Disappointing
Review: Why does Hollywood keep producing terrible remakes of classic movies? I'm a big fan of Steve Martin'a work- and yet I could not sit through this awful movie. Peter Sellers' Clouseau was a very nuanced character, a man who may have been incompetent, but who went about his business very seriously. He realized when he made a mistake, and much of the humor arose for Clouseau's attempts to recover from his mistakes. Martin's Clouseau, by way of contrast, is simply a clown, who blunders through thinks completely unaware of the havoc he is creating, or of any of the effects of his actions. I suppose if you've never seen any of the original Peter Sellers films you might find Martin's slapstick enjoyable, but anyone who finds Sellers' Clouseau to be one of the great comic figures of film will find this movie (and its sequel) to be a huge disappointment.
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