2006 · comedy · mystery · crime
The Pink Panther
Directed by Shawn Levy1h 33m2006
When the coach of the France football team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium at the end of a game, and his huge, expensive ring with the Pink Panther diamond disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector – Jacques Clouseau – to the case.
Our read: The Pink Panther (2006) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · mystery · crime entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / mystery, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- redemptive
- tender
- twisty
- funny
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