Producer: Shawn Levy, Ira Shuman, Robert Simonds
Director: Harald Zwart
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Andy Garcia, Emily Mortimer, Yuki Matsuzaki, John Cleese, Lily Tomlin, Jeremy Irons
Music: Christophe Beck.

Film Released on: 30 June 2009

The film is the sequel to the 2006 film of the same name starring Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau. This time around, the inspector must team up with detectives from other countries to rout the daring cat burglar, The Tornado, who has returned after a decade of inactivity. Aishwarya plays a criminology expert from India named Sonia.

The classic Blake Edwards Pink Panther 2 films starring Peter Sellers as the clumsy Inspector Jacques Clouseau cast a long shadow over the current modern remakes starring Steve Martin as the iconic lead character. Any comparison would find the new film lacking in the sophistication of the original movies. So, it’s with a jaded view that I began viewing the new “Pink Panther 2” and I will be honest, my main reason for seeing this was to see how Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would do in a full blown Hollywood film, but I’ll talk more about that later.
To be honest, the best part of the ”Pink Panther 2” is the animated Pink Panther short that is shown while the beginning titles scroll by. The wit, humor and physical comedy harkens back to the original Pink Panther concept. Unfortunately, once the actual live action film begins, we are treated to a series of slapstick moments that seem to have been strung together on a wafer (or half a wafer) thin plot. Director Harald Zwart presents everything in a very straightforward manner that almost leaves the viewer with an extreme feeling of watching a generic movie in a generic world that fits every stereotypical mold you could ever imagine. In other words, there is none of the panache that Blake Edwards breathed into the classic films that this remake is based on.