Inspector Jacques Clouseau, a name well known to criminals everywhere and anyone else he comes across as well.

But while his approach may be unorthodox and often very strange, he always manages to solve the crime in his own special way.

Maybe it’s because his deductive powers are so inadequate, his grasp of the obvious so elusive, his command of the language so severely limited and his physical coordination so completely lacking.

Clouseau (Steve Martin) and his new assistant, the steadfast, stoic Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno), follow a tangle of clues that leads them all over Paris and, eventually, New York City.