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The Pink Panther 2 is a 2009 (2009 in film) detective comedy film directed by Harald Zwart. It is the sequel to the 2006 film The Pink Panther (The Pink Panther (2006 film)), a reboot of the popular comedy series. The film was released on February 6, 2009 in North America. In the film, Inspector Clouseau must team up with detectives from other countries to rout the daring cat burglar, The Tornado, who has returned after a decade of inactivity. Steve Martin, who reprised the role of Clouseau, originated by Peter Sellers, polished the original script written by Scott Neustadter and Michael M. Weber in November 2006. Columbia Pictures, partnering with MGM on the sequel, hired the team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel to perform a further rewrite in January 2007. Principal photography began in Paris on August 20, 2007, then moved to Boston several weeks later, where filming ended on November 2, 2007.

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai appears as the criminology expert, Sonia Solandres. John Cleese replaces Kevin Kline as Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Charels Dreyfus) with Jean Reno and Emily Mortimer reprising their roles as Clouseaus partner Ponton and Clouseaus girlfriend Nicole. Andy Garc�a, Yuki Matsuzaki and Alfred Molina round out the cast as detectives, Inspector Vicenzo Brancaleone, Inspector Kenji Mazuto and Chief Inspector Randall Pepperidge. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 23, 2009.