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2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Red-Barracuda Revenge of the Pink Panther was the film which marked the last time Peter Sellers would play the bumbling French detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau before his untimely death two years later. He would feature in the later Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) of course, but seeing as his appearances in that film were made up exclusively of old out-takes, this one is the true final film really. In this one Clouseau is mistakenly thought to have been murdered by a gang of drug smugglers. He uses his anonymity to assist him bring the crooks to justice.This seems to be generally considered to be the weakest of the Sellers 70's comeback Panther films. This is probably a fair assessment, although I wouldn't say there is a lot in it, as while this is clearly an uneven comedy, the other 70's entries are too and this one still has some good scenes and is overall quite an enjoyable watch. Like seems to have become the formula, in this one Clouseau sports all manner of disguises, including a Godfather impersonation. There are, in fact, more disguises here than ever before which isn't necessarily a good thing, as when Sellers is in disguise, he is less Clouseau. Pound for pound, there are probably fewer genuinely funny Sellers moments in this one, with the most amusing scene in fact belonging to Herbert Lom when his Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to give a memorial speech praising Clouseau, where he continually fights uncontrolled laughter. Another memorable moment occurs when Clouseau returns to his home to discover that his manservant Kato has turned it into an oriental themed brothel! Pleasingly, this sequence features the spectacularly gorgeous Valerie Leon as a leather-clad dominatrix replete with whip. The plot runs through the motions and eventually winds up in Hong Kong, which quite a few films did in the 70's. Essentially, while this in a lesser Clouseau outing, it still was very likeable all the same.

Steffi_P The Pink Panther series, as with many such outstanding comedy formulae, hit a peak and went into inevitable decline. The characters and the way they played off each other could always be relied upon to unleash a wild stream of gags, but the trouble is there wasn't enough flexibility in the format, and without novel situations each new movie began to resemble the last.Just as the previous picture (The Pink Panther Strikes Again) spoofs the James Bond franchise, Revenge of the Pink Panther takes off the gangster movies of the decade. It is a little heavier on plot than most Pink Panther pictures, and perhaps a little haphazard in its construction (numerous outtakes would later make up a large chunk of the follow-up, Trail of the Pink Panther). The jokes do not come quite so thick and fast as they used to, which is a shame because director Blake Edwards only really thrived on the slapstick comedy. Thankfully this is still of a high calibre, and there are some great examples of those trademark exaggerated gags, such as the assassin tripping on a baton then falling through several floors. A pratfall is never just a pratfall in an Edwards comedy.But altogether the comedy is on smaller scale than it was in the previous picture, which on the plus side allows for more business from main man Peter Sellers. The story here focuses a lot on Clouseau's mastery of disguises, giving several opportunities for Sellers to try out different comedy mannerisms. The Swedish seadog routine is one of the funniest scenes of any Panther movie. Sellers still had his brilliance at timing and silly voices, although his energy and enthusiasm were clearly beginning to wane.Sellers passed away before another Pink Panther movie could be made. However, as Trail of the Pink Panther and Son of the Pink Panther showed, the flogging of this dead horse continued even after the literal death of the star, a star without whom the series could not have existed in the first place. Still, while far from perfect Revenge of the Pink Panther gives us a final opportunity to see him in one of his greatest roles, before the series really started to turn bad

TheLittleSongbird I do not think Revenge of the Pink Panther is the best in the series(Shot in the Dark is hilarious), but it was a funny and pleasant diversion. The plot is a bit of a less though, and while I liked the music in general some of it got a little repetitive or interfered too much in some scenes. Also there is the odd bit of slow pacing. However, I actually kind of liked it. Peter Sellers is a sheer delight as Clousseau, and Herbert Lom was good also, his eulogy scene had me in hysterics. And there is some decent scripting, however I did find the sight gags more memorable, especially the scene in Clousseau's apartment about twenty five minutes into the movie, the funniest moment of that particular scene was when he fell through the ceiling when it was cut through. I quite liked the production values as well, they weren't what I call exquisite, but they were pleasant enough. Overall, decent but I do agree it is uneven at times. Worth watching for Sellers, but for those looking for a more structured plot they'd better see Shot in the Dark for example instead. 7/10 Bethany Cox

jzappa The sixth film in the Pink Panther film series, Revenge of was the last installment featuring series star Sellers, who died in 1980. You've got to hand it to Blake Edwards. Unlike countless directors who give great franchises their A-grade launches only to let other hired hands and marketing people butcher the rest of the series, Edwards butchered it himself, striving to keep the series active with Trail of the Pink Panther by making the most of unused footage of Sellers from previous Panther movies.But even before the patchwork was employed, there was this sleepwalk of sub-cheap kiddie humor. Horrendous puns, slapstick gags and disguises are the material of the comedy that, for no particular purpose that I can think of, has Clouseau, at one point and another, masquerade as a woman, a peg-legged sailor who carries an inflatable rubber parrot on his shoulder, and as Toulouse-Lautrec. In the original Pink Panther, and its fortuitous sequel A Shot in the Dark, Inspector Clouseau plays first a supporting role as the central jewel thief's incompetent antagonist and then a pawn in an elaborate murder mystery, supplying slapstick comic relief to films that were otherwise subtle, lighthearted capers, a somewhat jarring contrast of styles not atypical of Edwards' films. The popularity of Clouseau caused him to become the main character in subsequent Pink Panther films, deadening the impact of his character and trading wit for tedium. And aggressive to the cultural identities of their audience.Utterly racist, the film shows crude and archaic stereotypes are everywhere. It shows Cato no respect whatsoever, prefixing his every reference with the word "yellow," having him convert Clouseau's apartment in a brothel---sorry, "Chinese nookie factory"---the moment news of "boss's" demise leaks to the press, and hampering him with a pair of Coke-bottle spectacles for the climax, the better to bring into play the signature ridicule of Yellow Peril. Later in the movie, Clouseau dons a Mr. Yunioshi-like disguise similar to Cato's for no reason whatsoever, which is not to pardon Edwards, who gratuitously introduced Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Sellers unreservedly sought a kind of catharsis in later years through an adverse handling and cartoonizing of Asians in Murder by Death and The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu, while Clouseau's increasing dependence on puns and malapropisms here is an indicative precursor of Sellers' physical decline, and the series'.Despite being warned by Cato, Clouseau drives toward the location tipped off by an apparent informant as the whereabouts of an important criminal, but his car and clothes are stolen at gunpoint by a transvestite criminal named Claude Rousseau. Rousseau drives into the trap and is killed by Douvier's men. Subsequently, the majority of people believe Clouseau to be dead, and as a result of this assumption, Clouseau's mad boss, ex-Commissioner Charles Dreyfus, again played by the exceedingly funny Herbert Lom, is deemed sane, and is to be released from the Mental Asylum to try and crack the case, only to continually see Clouseau. This is the high point of hilarity in Revenge of, the plot having set it up that Dreyfus would think Clouseau is dead, so whenever Clouseau innocently appears, Dreyfus thinks insane thoughts after being deemed sane, thinking he's hallucinating or being haunted.Other than that, Revenge of the Pink Panther is scattered in its structure and not very creative in its situations. It's weary, apathetic, and only intermittently funny. Also, uncharacteristically, it ends peacefully, hinting at a shift indicative of an intended close to the series, a glum one.