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The Pink Panther
2006 · Film · 93 min
Directed by Shawn Levy
ComedyMysteryCrimeAdventureFamily
When the coach of the France football team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium at the end of a game, and his huge, expensive ring with the Pink Panther diamond disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector – Jacques Clouseau – to the case.
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And the thing is there is plenty of new content targeting that generation that is very good. There is a lot of changes in cultural values and norms that just aren’t captured by all our old 1980’s movies. For example views on gender, race and sexuality are wildly different than what we encountered as 80’s kids. Not to mention socioeconomic and geopolitical changes too.
That isn’t to say that 1980’s movies are garbage. Far from it. It’s just like the parent said… trying to get 12 year old me into old junk like pink panther or whatever cartoons were watched in the boomer era.
I mean hell, half the plot lines in older shows don’t work if everybody has a powerful internet connected computer in their pocket.
Perhaps that's because you haven't been watching much children's entertainment in the last 30 years?
See eg https://www.netflix.com/sg/title/81154166
> Weren't 1940s animation shorts aimed at adult cinema goers?
Tom and Jerry were invented in the 1940s, but eg the 1960s episodes used the same format. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry for a timeline.
See https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon for many more examples, though far from exhaustive.
As an 'intermediate example': Pucca has dialogue, but also very strong visual story-telling that means you can understand what's going on without the dialogue.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Animation/Pucca says:
> Pucca became popular worldwide because it relies on visual and gag humor rather than language, much like The Pink Panther, the Road Runner and other pantomime cartoons. Though the series has since picked up dialog, translation has worked well enough and the series remains mostly silent. Both show leads, Garu and Pucca, are Heroic Mimes, though they do laugh, sigh and make other sounds.
When was the last time MGM did something truly creative? They pretty much just churn out the same formulaic franchise films every 2-3 years (James Bond, Rocky/Creed) or do pointless reboots (Robocop, Legally Blonde, Pink Panther). The studio has already gone through bankruptcy and layoffs and is on its last legs. There isn't too much left for Amazon to ruin.
Step away and do something completely frivolous for a few hours. Usually a pink panther film I have seen countless times or FPS going after zombies. I need to access another part of the brain and "turn off" the area that has been overworked. At least that is how it feels.
I'm from the UK and loved my occasional childhood holidays in France or Portugal for a chance to buy Lucky Luke and Pink Panther comics. For some reason Asterix and Tintin were popular in the UK but other Franco-Belgian comics didn't take off. There were a few 70s prints of Lucky Luke and I have one translated 1970s Iznogoud but they went out of print quickly until Cinebook [0] started selling new translations about a decade ago, and the characters are much less well-known here than on the continent.
I think Gaston is still unavailable in English - I'm not such a fan of Spirou and Fantasio but I recently bought Cinebook's "The Marsupliami Thieves" as it was the only Franquin book available in English, sadly.
By the way, a recent HN thread on internationalization mentioned how few really well localized film translations there are and gave Shrek and Frozen as examples of good ones. The English translations of Asterix were brilliant and full of English-specific puns, presumably replacing original French puns (I have read some of them in French but my French is not really good enough for wordplay).
(edit: Although obviously the UK has its own tradition of kids-including-girls-friendly comics: Beano, Dandy, and many others. And for a modern equivalent I like the Phoenix comic [1]. But comic book shops here are mostly also very full of superhero comics and adult manga and not young-girl-friendly.)
[0] http://www.cinebook.co.uk [1] http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/
The adventures of Teddy Ruxpin is what I grew with in Bulgaria - it was very popular show (also Pink Panther, Flinstones) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Teddy_Ruxpin
we still use some of the abbrevations from the movie (LB) but in Bulgarian when we talk to other people