dkkane39

"Inspector Clouseau" is a film that's ineptitude bod almost everything imaginable almost rivals the ineptitude of Tommy Wiseau's "The Room". Is it as bad as "The Room"? No. However, this film is so badly written, so blindly directed, so in constant hatred of its audience that as you watch it you can't help but be offended. I'm convinced that tpeople who made this film hate movies. Hate making movies. Hate acting in movies. Hate everything about movies. It's almost a genius film if you see it as an anti-movie. It's so blatantly bad and on purpose that you are fully aware everyone hated being in this movie and making it. The contempt for the audience in this film is almost legendary. I've watched many episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTraxx and never have I ever seen a film have such contempt for its audience. Alan Arkin gives what I would call an "anti-performance". It is so evident in every scene that he hates being in this movie and playing this character. He sits in almost every scene in a stupor and a look that says "god, how did I get in this pile?" The writing is so bad. It's like an alien race who had no concept of comedy tried to make a comedy. It's "anti-funny". The whole film plays like a gigantic middle finger being shoved right in the audience's face. The filmmakers and actors are so completely drained of any enthusiasm and care that it's almost exhausting watching this movie. It's like listening to a person complain for two hours. There's a scene where Alan Arkin arrives in London and walks down the ramp off of the airplane and as he gets down the ramp he realizes he doesn't have any shoes on. But we the audience are never told why he doesn't have shoes on. Did he take them off on the plane to relax? Did he lose them somewhere on the plane? Did a missing reel just not get included back into the film? It's an attempt at humor that is so inept and bad that it's not funny, it's baffling. Another example of wtf, is Clouseau is getting a shave by the prison barber, when all of a sudden he's drugged and put to sleep. Then the prison barber opens a hatch in the room and just disappears down it. I have no idea what that hatch is or why it is there. The drugging is never explained and so a character literally before your eyes disappears with no explanation. If I hadn't mentioned it already, this movie is exhausting! Thank goodness that seven years later Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, and Henry Mancini returned to the series. "Inspector Clouseau" is so bad its a franchise killer. Yet, an even bigger franchise killer than Jaws: The Revenge and Highlander 2. Luckily, the franchise rebounded in 1975 with "The Return of the Pink Panther". If anything, I mean if anything "Inspector Clouseau" proves it is that not everyone in movies with the opportunity and means to make a movie should make a movie. Those sort of things should probably be left to the professionals.

This is clearly a film directed by a director who has no idea why science fiction is and what it should be. It's Payne's worst movie by far! It's like a combination of a bad rom com, lame sci-fi, and climate change message movies. It's a mess and it shows and by the end you're left wondering how many thing they could have done better to make a better movie. Skip, I wish I had.