…that not a single person went to see it? I am referring, of course, to the remake of Inspector Clouseau starring Steven Martin. Just seeing the commercial for this thing made me weep for my species. Is it conceivable that even a single person will pony up $7.00 to watch this?
I guess I just don’t understand the business model here. Can someone explain it to me?
Is it possible that some people like that Wild and Crazy guy enough to go see it?
I don’t plan to go to the movie, but it looked better that many movies that have been out lately including Steve Martin’s Cheaper by the Dozen movies.
I was a big Pink Panther fan as a kid and I still enjoy seeing then occasionally as an adult. This looks slightly better than the last 2 attempted to resurrect the series.
Jim
I forgot the links:
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) with only archive footage of Sellers
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Son of the Pink Panther (1993) with Roberto Benigni
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
I used to love the guy but now I’m just embarassed for him. It’s hard to believe that the same guy that played The Jerk, the dad in Parenthood wearing bathmats for chaps, Ruprecht in Dirty Rotton Scoundrels and I’ll even grudgingly give him an okay in LA Story is now confronting us with this drivel.
People will show up. That’s marketing.
Also, the business model for films is now:
As far as Steve Martin is concerned, his early films were crap. Then he started making some good ones. He’s gone back to ever worse crap these days, as he joins the bunch of actors who end up selling out to do “family entertainment” and homogenize their image.
OTOH, he may have had to do these so he could get Shopgirl released.
RealityChuck, you’re making me cry. You’re saying people will really respond to the marketing – the marketing I saw on TV – by actually going to the theater and paying their money? Or, more shockingly, by buying the DVD and bringing it home? Maybe you can brighten my day by suggesting some legal method to remove these people from the breeding pool.
Could be worse; could be Raul Julia in his final starring role, as the evil M. Bison from Street Fighter.
My six-year-old daughter wants to see this, based solely on the commercials she’s seen for it. Maybe I’m a sentimental old fool, but I’d prefer she was not removed from the “breeding pool,” if you don’t mind.
Rufus, there would be an automatic exemption for those under the age of 12. But seriously, would you take her to see it, knowing you would have to see it as well? And by the way, I think it’s rated PG.
The previews didn’t look bad to me. Frankly, the original Pink Panther movies weren’t what you’d call sophisticated.
You could make a movie with a clock ticking for 2 hours and someone would go to see it.
People go to see bad horror and action movies all the time(Underworld 1/2, Bloodrayne, Van Helsing).
People went to see Alexander and that was pretty pointless in every way possible(and I say that as a fan of historical epics).
People went to see DOOM(I might rent it on DVD, and get drunk, but a theater is out of the question).
I’ve gotten to a point where I’ll see a commerical for a bad movie and say “#1 at the box office”. I’ll usally be right.
Besides, The Stever Martin Pink Panther movie could be funny(Likely it’ll be stupid, but hope is still in the box), but I’ll wait for the reviews before I make an judgement.
This movie was originally supposed to be out last summer in August. I think the studios new it was a stinker and pushed it into the ‘no competition’ January season. As I recall this flick was originally Martin’s idea. He actually went to a fellow producer and told him he wanted to do this project.
The Peter Sellers versions were all about deadpan comedic timing and did it right.
From the advertisements for the Martin version it appears he really missed the mark.
Martin does a lot of “paycheck” movies, but manages to sneak in some sophisticated or artistic films in between. Man’s gotta eat.
In the last decade, he has done:
The Spanish Prisoner
Bowfinger
Novocaine
Shopgirl
I didn’t care for the Spanish Prisoner, but Mamet is considered high class.
Ilove me some Steve Martin. Dude’s versatile, you gotta admit. But frankly the only thing more painful than seeing Peter Sellers do an intentionally bad French accent is watching Steve Martin waste his own exquisite bad French accent in what will only look like a Peter Sellers impersonation. He would have been wonderful as the original, but I really can’t bear to think of him doing it now.
Awww, c’mon! I loved Van Helsing. That’s been sitting on my Tivo Now Playing List for three months now. 
You’re right about the other two, though. Sing a song of suckpence, those movies stunk.
He also writes clever, classy plays for theater. I’m doing his Picasso at the Lapin Agile right now (I’m Einstein). Great piece of writing.
I cannot believe you just lumped Underworld in with those movies. For the love of god man.
Upon reading the rollover preview of the OP I immediately came in to state that it looks 100X’s better than Cheaper by the Dozen 2. And I mean that in the same way that an ant is 100 times stronger than a termite.
Well, speaking as an unfortunate person who sat through Dana Carvey’s Master of Disguise six freaking times because it was her favorite movie of all time when she was three, I can say, without reservation, that I would have no problem taking her to see this. I have developed some heavy scar tissue on the brain from watching many many many bad films. I’m cool with it. I’m cool with the PG rating, too. She can handle it.
I admit, even though I’ve been a pretty big Steve Martin fan for almost 30 years, I think the trailer makes this look like one very unfunny comedy, and if no one else in my family wanted to see it, I definitely would not go out of my way to do so.
It has been claimed (in Pollock’s Skywalking) that nobody went to see American Graffiti 2.