The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther is a British-American media franchise primarily focusing on a series of comedy-mystery films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The franchise began with the release of the classic Pink Panther film in 1963. The role of Clouseau was originated by and is most closely associated with Peter Sellers. Most of the films were written and directed by Blake Edwards, with theme music composed by Henry Mancini. Elements and characters inspired by the films were adapted into other media, including books, comic books and animated series. The first film in the series derives its name from the eponymous pink diamond that has an enormous size and value. The diamond is called the "Pink Panther" because the flaw at its center, when viewed closely, is said to resemble a leaping pink panther. The phrase reappears in the title of the fourth film The Return of the Pink Panther, in which the theft of the diamond is again the centre of the plot. The phrase was used for all the subsequent films in the series, even when the jewel did not figure in the plot. It ultimately appeared in six of the eleven films. The first film in the series had an animated opening sequence, created by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, featuring The Pink Panther Theme by Mancini, as well as the Pink Panther character. This character, designed by Hawley Pratt and Friz Freleng, was subsequently the subject of his own series of animated cartoons which gained its highest profile when aired on Saturday mornings as The Pink Panther Show. The character would be featured in the opening of every film in the movie series except A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau.

Production: MGM/Columbia
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
PG
Year:
2006
93
$82,226,474
Website
28,780 Views

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
I've got Bizu in the interrogation room.

Ponton:
What's the plan?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
I'm going to give him the "good-cop / bad-cop" routine.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
You are the soccer player known as Bizu?

Bizu:
Yes.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
You were acquainted with Yves Gluant?

Bizu:
I am glad he is pushing up daisies.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
He is not pushing up daisies, he is dead!

Bizu:
It's an idiom.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
You sir, are the idiom!

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
Now, unless you want to spend the rest of your life in prison, you will answer the next question: Did you kill him?

Bizu:
I would have loved to have killed him, but some lucky bastard beat me to it.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
You disgust me. I'll be right back! [leaves room]

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
[re-enters room] Cigarette?

Bizu:
No. Thanks.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
Good for you. Bizu, I knew you didn't do it; someone else did, and they are trying to set you up.

Bizu:
You'll help me?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
Of course I'll help you. Now, do you have any idea who else might have done this terrible thing?

Bizu:
His partner in those stupid restaurants, Larocque.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
Raymond Larocque, the casino owner.

Bizu:
Gluant would steal money from the restaurants and use it to gamble. My guess is Larocque got fed up and had him killed.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
Bizu, I like you. I'm going to help you. You and I are going to make a great team. [leaves room and shuts door]

Inspector Jacques Clouseau:
The good cop / bad cop routine is working perfectly.

Ponton:
You know, usually two different cops do that.


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