The Pink Panther 2

Directed by Harald Zwart

Reviewed by Hayatul Husna

           

            The Pink Panther 2 is an American comedy film directed by Harald Zward. This film takes place at the Vatican church, France, and America. The main character is Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He is a police officer and he usually takes other job from his superior as a detective. In this movie he keeps the pink panther when the thief whose tornado is coming. Tornado steals the historical things in many countries. That is why clouseau asked to keep the pink panther.

            Now, he teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. They are Closeau, Inspector Pepperidge (Great Britain), Vicenzo (Italy), Kenji (an electronics specialist from Japan), and Sonia (Aishwarya Rai) (a researcher and criminology expert from India) Their mission: stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts. They plane to go to France to solve the case but clouseau refuse it. He said that the tornado is here so, I don’t need to go to France. But his superior does not care, he asked clouseau to go. Clouseau takes to go to airport with his partner Ponton. When he wants to leave suddenly he saw the news that the pink panther has been stolen too.

            The dream team began to solve the case by going to go to Rome to investigate Alonso Avellaneda who has a deal with tornado to claim his self to be a tornado. Nicole, the girl who loved by clouseau also comes with this investigation. At least he luckily lies to the dream team, in this investigation clouseau know that the real tornado is there but nobody believe him. They decide to continue the investigation in the night. When clouseau wants to solve the case by doing spy in a restaurant, unfortunately he looks Nicole having date with the man who joins dream team. Clouseau feels jealous he decides to stop the spying. He tries to separate Nicole and the man. At least he does the same thing like 3 months ago. The restaurant is burning done again.

            At the same time tornado steals pope’s ring in the Vatican church. In solving this case clouseau makes the foolish thing in the Vatican. People claim him as an idiot. And he is voted off from the team, no body care about that but Sonia does. Shortly, clouseau called to the office where he saw the tornado was killed himself. The dream team claim that tornado died by checking DNA. In that place is found the historical artifact that has been stolen by tornado but the pink panther not found. Tornado wrote the letter that he wants to keep pink panther because he likes it.

            In short, this movie is very good to watch. The combination of comedy, love, and adventure make it more interesting. So who is the real tornado? Does clouseau found him? What about Nicole? Will she comes back to clouseau? Watch it.