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Sometimes sequels are inferior to the original but not in this case.
This is the 4th Inspector Clouseau movie (after PINK PANTHER, A SHOT IN THE DARK, THE PINK PANTHER RETURNS) and they had perfected it. The combination of action, the clumsiness of Peter Sellers's character, the music score by Henry Mancini, the fight scenes with Kato, the crazy Inspector Dreyfuss and of course the classic "DOES YOUR DOG BITE?" are all there in the right amount and combination.
Also, the movie is set during the time it was filmed in which was 1976.
If you only own Pink Panther movie ever, this is the one. The previous three movies are funny but IMO drag a bit at times.
The next one after this one (THE REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER) came close to this one but never eclipsed it.
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This happens to be my favorite Pink Panther movie so far. I have seen The Pink Panther, A Shot In The Dark, Inspector Clouseau, The Return of the Pink Panther, this one, and The Pink Panther{2006}. This one happens to be the funniest in my opinion. It has a great cast. Peter Sellers as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau, Herbert Lom as Former Cheif Inspector Dreyfus, Lesley- Anne Down as Olga Bariosova, Colin Blakely as Section Director Alec Drummond, and Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong. Now, I will give you a quote from this movie. Clouseau is at a German Hotel when he sees a dog.
He asks the owner of the hotel, "Does you dog bite?" The owner says "No." Clouseau reaches down to pet the dog. It bites him. Then he says "I thought you said your dog doesn't bite." The owner of the hotel says "That is not my dog." That was my review.
Jedi404
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Though the film has nothing to do with the Pink Panther diamond, the cartoon panther had become synonymous with the comedy series by this point. Thus the fourth Inspector Clouseau comedy was named THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN. Though it's a little over-the-top at times - particularly during the end - it's one of the very funniest entries in the series, ranking right behind the original THE PINK PANTHER as far as overall quality. The plot involves ex-Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) going completely mad and retreating to a European castle, where he kidnaps a brilliant scientist (Robert Vernon) and his daughter (Briony McRoberts) and creates a ray gun which makes objects invisible. Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), now promoted to the rank of Chief Inspector, sets out to stop Dreyfus, while being pursued by assassins from governments worldwide who want Clouseau dead after Dreyfus makes a demand: "Give me Clouseau, and we can all sleep happily."
The script, by director Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman (who wrote all the PINK PANTHER films of the 1970s), is a non-stop laugh riot, one hilarious moment after another, brought to life by outrageously funny performances from Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom. Perhaps the funniest moments come during the wonderful animated title sequences, which spoof hits from JAWS to the 1960s BATMAN TV series. Henry Mancini contributes another great score, while Tom Jones contributes the end song, "Come To Me".
THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN is at times brilliant and always outrageously funny. If you're looking to be completely entertained AND laugh your socks off, look no further than this film. This was the final great entry in the PINK PANTHER series; the subsequent film, REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER, proved to be less-than-stellar. It also marked Peter Sellers final appearance in the series, though he was resurrected through stock footage for 1982's TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER.
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Burt Kwouk is a welcome addition, back but
Lom and the castle bit is a bit much! I can
see how Dreyfuss would crack up in MY chief
Inspector were Clouseau!
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In my opinion, Blake Edward's "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" is the funniest movie of the Pink Panther series, if not the funniest piece of Peter Sellers' career, if not the funniest comedy in film history. It carefully balances the outrageous slapstick of "The Return of the Pink Panther" with the subtle, sophisticated humor of the original "The Pink Panther."
The film starts with former Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom, as always), a once proud detective turned psychopath by being repeatedly humiliated by Clouseau's mistakes. On the eve of his intended release from a psychiatric ward, Clouseau (Peter Sellers, naturally) pays a visit and, through a hilarious sequence of flubs, is driven back to insanity.
This is the most hilarious scene in the series so far, until after the opening credits. The credits themselves are lackluster. It's always good to see the Pink Panther and Clouseau's animated counterpart duking it out, and the credits follow a theme (now classic movies and television) instead of a random and abstract concept for once, but the randomness and abstractness of the opening credits to most Pink Panther movies make them more memorable.
Back to the movie, there's more hilarity with a fight between Clouseau and his Korean butler Cato (Burt Kwouk, as always). Dreyfus escapes and plots revenge. Clouseau assumes a series of wacky disguises to avoid the madman. Then a British scientist (Richard Vernon) and his daughter (young, lovely Briony McRoberts) are kidnapped. Scotland Yard calls Clouseau to the scene, where he searches the mansion for clues and then interrogates the staff in classic, drawing room style. Clouseau bumbles through this the way only he can, making it one of the funniest sequences in the entire series.
Turns out the cases are connected. Dreyfus has taken the professor hostage and forced him to build a doomsday device. He threatens to use it unless someone, anyone, can kill Clouseau. The plot is totally absurd, but so are the plots to most of the James Bond movies.
Clouseau's gifts allow him to bumble through the line of fire of the world's deadliest assassins, so lucky that they manage to kill each other without his even noticing. He's even so lucky that a femme fatale mistakes an Egyptian assassin (Omar Sharif) for Clouseau in the dark, then falls in love with the real Inspector Clouseau, mistakenly thinking he's the world's greatest lover. Lesley-Anne Down is the femme fatale, and she's definitely the sexiest actress to grace a Pink Panther film since Claudia Cardinale in the first movie.
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