A broadway version of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” with Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce and Tim Curry sounds like it has a lot of promise. Who knows, though. Still with that cast it could be really funny.
A remake/prequel of/to “the Pink Panther”? Ok, skeptical enough. But Steve Martin as a pre-Peter Sellers Clouseau? No. First of all, Martin is too old. Second of all, Inspector Dreyfus IS Herbert Lom. I don’t see Kevin Kline in the role. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I don’t think that Martin can pull off Clouseau. What made Peter Sellers’ Clouseau so great a character was Clouseau’s absolute ignorance of his on incompetance. I don’t think Martin can pull it off. One characteristic of a Steve Martin comedic performance is an awareness of the absurdity of his character. And I think that would ruin Clouseau.
