This definitely wasn’t the best movie, but I found myself laughing hysterically at some points. I was expecting not to like this, so perhaps that is why I was pleasantly surprised.

Despite the fact that there were moments I found quite funny, it wasn’t very entertaining on the whole. Steve Martin did a very good job with the role, though. I did not like Kevin Kline at all. I thought he was just crap at almost every scene he did.

The obvious danger of attempting to remake such a classic film is that it will be compared in every way to the original. I was a bit skeptical about how Steve Martin might reprise Peter Sellars’ zany detective role, but he did a wonderful job, as did director Shawn Levy in honoring Blake Edwards. From the initial cartoon credits to the inevitable triumph of bumbling over evil-much to the chargrin of Dreyfuss (played remarkably well by Kevin Kline)-this movie is a complete treat. It even has better eye candy than the original, in the breathtaking beauty of Beyonce Knowles. The gags in this film have been updated to include cell phones and email, nonexistent in the Sellars era, and are guaranteed to have you LOLing if not ROFLing. See it!