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Metascore®36 out of 100 | Generally unfavorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Provides genial chuckles, but it's never excitingly rude. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Serves up enough goofy pranks and fractured wordplay to keep the series purring along. Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith Phipps

    Plays like an undeserved victory lap for a series that only limped to the finish line the last time. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    Nothing is harder and more elusive than successful slapstick onscreen. Nothing. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Although the stunts come thick and fast in The Pink Panther 2, they are jammed together in a way that gives most of them barely enough time to register. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Peter Sellers was a genius who somehow made Inspector Clouseau seem as if he really were helplessly incapable of functioning in the real world and somehow incapable of knowing that. Steve Martin is a genius, too, but not at being Clouseau. It seems more like an exercise. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey

    There is no real plot, the movie's filled with friends of Steve, the comedy is terribly overplayed, or the comedy is overplayed terribly (again, you can choose) -- what you're left with is a bag of tricks that has seen better days. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Staff [Not Credited]

    Perhaps Martin should go back to taking chances and writing original work. Read full review

  • 38
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The breath of fresh air, to the extent that one can be identified in the staleness of this recycled refuse, is John Cleese. Read full review

  • 30
    Village Voice | Ernest Hardy

    It's Garcia, Molina, and Tomlin who give you momentary hope that the film might settle into a witty, irreverent romp. Unfortunately, their efforts are ultimately defeated. Read full review