The Pink Panther - A Pink Christmas
by Bill Perez
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Director: Bill PerezBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Pink Panther - A Pink Christmas
Movie Review: The greatest cartoon feline's Christmas Special plus two bonus specials
Summary: 5 Stars
The Pink Panther (as in the cartoon character)'s 1978 Christmas Special saw its official release on DVD in November of 2007.
When I first bought this DVD in late 2007, I was familiar with the Christmas special which I had on VHS but was on last legs and I had seen Pink at First Sight online but hadn't seen Olym-Pinks at all. Before I thought of buying it, at first I was like $14 for only 24 minutes but I was shocked and ecstatic at the same time that MGM/20th Century Fox decided to release the two subsequent Pink Panther TV Specials (1980's Olym-Pinks and 1981's masterpiece Pink at First Sight) on the same DVD as well. All specials were 25 or so minutes in length so almost 80 minutes of The Pink Panther's late 1970s/early 1980s TV specials.
"A Pink Christmas" first debuted on ABC (US ABC not the Australian counterpart) on December 7, 1978 and was adapted from the old 1906 O. Henry short story called 'The Cop and the Anthem' (makes mention of it in the opening credits) and is a wonderful lesson in counting in what you can have and cannot have in life and being grateful for it. The classic story makes a perfect adaptation to the world of the Pink Panther cartoon character. It's cold and Christmas time and the beloved pink cat is cold and has no food and will go at any costs to have food and shelter for Christmas. In the original book, the character in the short story was trying to get into prison so he can be warm and have food for Christmas. There is one scene where the panther to get himself arrested but requests ignored but all things end merrily at the end.
Then we go over a year and two months later to February of 1980 for Olym-Pinks (also originally aired on ABC). Olym-Pinks cashed in on the 1980 Winter Olympics that were held in Lake Placid, New York that year, and includes a series of classic Winter Olympic games played between Panther and the infamous 'little man' from all of the classic Pink Panther shorts (as the animators and late Friz Freleng referred to him).
Finally we have "Pink At First Sight" which aired on ABC on May 10, 1981. It's Valentine's Day and the cat has no love and only 6 cents and finds work as a singing/miming delivery man getting into all sorts of trouble along the way before finding the pantheress of his dreams at the end (I believe this would be the start point of The Pink Panther being a father in the animated series Pink Panther and Sons which debuted in 1984).
The Pink Panther Christmas Special DVD is a superb DVD and the Christmas Special is one of my all time Top 5 favorites (up there with Fat Albert's Christmas Special from 1977, Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales from 1979 (which was made by same animators as A Pink Christmas), A Chipmunk Christmas from 1981 and of course How the Grinch Stole Christmas from 1966).
Recommended!
Summary of The Pink Panther - A Pink Christmas
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