It takes a great deal of skilled filmmaking to take the premise of an idiot Frenchman getting himself into a series of increasingly ridiculous situations and converting it into the most spectacularly unfunny movie ever made. That requires not only a complete misunderstanding of why the premise is funny in the first place but also the enthusiastic participation of a normally excellent comedian, a miscast tough guy and a wonderfully expressive actor phoning in his performance.
What a waste of the reels of film needed to project this onto the screen. Sadly I can’t even comment on the entire film, after forty-five minutes of not even smiling or reluctantly snorting at some piss-poor joke, I slept through the climactic central portion.
Cripes. What a waste of my time. I actually had to force myself to re-watch A Shot in the Dark just to see how even a bad Pink Panther movie is vastly superior to this steaming pile.