Product Details

• Actors: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Shabana Azmi, Debrah Farentino
• Directors: Blake Edwards
• Writers: Blake Edwards, Madeline Sunshine, Maurice Richlin, Steven Sunshine
• Producers: Friend Michael Wells, Nigel Wooll, Tony Adams
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: July 13, 1999
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0792842154
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,828 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Blake Edwards, looking for some way to resurrect the Pink Panther series after the death of Peter Sellers, hit upon the idea of creating an illegitimate son for him (with Claudia Cardinale, who starred in the original film in 1963, returning as the mother). Edwards's most useful notion was casting Italian comic Roberto Benigni as the junior Clouseau. Benigni is a walking sight gag, capable of turning dross to gossamer with his sheer physical skill. Unfortunately, he's no Rumpelstiltskin--his powers only go so far--and there's too much straw for him to spin it all into gold; indeed, he gets buried, despite an energetic performance, in a limp plot about the search for a kidnapped princess. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Son of the Pink Panther, March 3, 2006

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Michael D. Vlasak "bond fan" (Endicott, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Son of the Pink Panther (DVD)

Funny in parts, but not up to the level of when Peter Sellers was playing Clouseau. Hebert Lom and Bert Kwok are the only actors that hold the movie together. The usual clumsiness was a
bit overdone.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good movie, don't buy it....., February 20, 2006

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Morley Dotes "morleydotes" (Flushing, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Son of the Pink Panther (DVD)

Okay, so I may be one of the few that enjoyed this movie. I did not have high expectations and knew it would be silly. It did make me laugh. So, I was so happy when Isaw that this was available on DVD. In this day and age of technology, it is completely unacceptable to produce a DVD with such poor sound quality. I don't know why it is, but I constantly had to raise and lower the volume. I have not had this problem with any other DVD, so this was a real disappointment for me. I bought this DVD for under $10 and I still say it isn't worth $5! The sound is horrible. If you have not seen this film and you are a fan of the actor or the series, then rent it, and you won't feel like a sucker.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Benigni could truley be Sellers' child, June 18, 2003

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PJ (Evansville, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Son of Pink Panther [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Despite the bad reviews this movie received, I rather liked it. Benigni was very convincing in his role as the Great Detective's illigitimate son, right down to stumbling around like an idiot, looking for a "cleau", being an officer of the "leau" and the giving and receiving of "bimps".