Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
Forgotten for a reason It would be reductive to point the failure of Inspector Clouseau squarely at Alan Arkin. Don't get me wrong, he is woefully miscast as the bumbling French detective, but he is not the sole failure of this film. This is a cinematic omnishambles. Woah there Grezza! You're jumping the gun a bit! Alan Arkin? What's he got to do with this? Well, dear reader, after the success of the past two Clouseau films, The Mirisch company wanted another. However Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers had both fallen out with eachother and didn't want to do anymore. The Mirisch Company decided to proceed without them both, thus Inspector Clouseau was commissioned staring Alan Arkin as Inspector Clouseau and with Bud Yorkin as director. What could possibly go wrong? Inspector Clouseau bears as much resemblance to an Inspector Clousseau movie as Judas and the Black Messiah bears a resemblance to an Avengers movie. There is no soul of a Clouseau movie, only symbols. The obviou
