PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN, THE (DVD MOVIE)
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Movie Review: The Pinkest Panther
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary of PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN, THE (DVD MOVIE)
The fourth Pink Panther film with Peter Sellers and directed by Blake Edwards is easily the most over-the-top but it's still pretty entertaining. The story finds Clouseau's former boss (Herbert Lom) totally insane after years of enduring the bumbling detective and sequestered in a castle with a death-ray gun. Clouseau has to stop him from using the weapon on the world and his efforts to do so make for some choice Edwards-style slapstick. The quotient of destruction (a Clouseau staple) is higher than average but there is also real wit--particularly in a final scene where Lom re-creates his most famous role as the monster from the 1962 Phantom of the Opera. --Tom KeoghSystem Requirements:Running Time: 111 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 027616905932 Manufacturer No: 1006392Similar DVD Movies
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