Revenge of the Pink Panther
Peter Sellers' fifth and final (legitimate) performance as Clouseau, of Pink Panther fame, finds the bumbling detective the target of a French crime lord determined to boost him image by offing the notoriously hard-to-kill inspector. It's the most cartoon-like of the series (when Clouseau falls through a hole in the floor -- cut out in a circle beneath where he stands, natch -- his hat stays suspended in air on the story above), and the least memorable by a longshot. Never mind that it doesn't make a lot of sense to start with (no explanation is made for the reappearance of former inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), who disintegrated himself at the end of Panther #4), and the remainder of the movie is mainly one setup for Sellers to ham it up after another. Still, what a ham, eh?
Rating
3.0 out of 5 Stars
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- Director: Blake Edwards
- Producer: Blake Edwards
- Screenwriter: Ron Clark, Blake Edwards, Frank Waldman
- Stars: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Tony Beckley, Robert Loggia
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Year of Release: 1978
- Released on Video: 01/27/2009
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