Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Eric Stevenson It's been too long since I've seen any of the "Pink Panther" films. It's so weird how we see opening and closing credits that feaure the animated Pink Panther, yet the movie itself isn't about him at all. I admit that the plot could probably be better. The main story is that Inspector Closeau has to stop a guy from taking over the world with a laser gun. I admit it is a little clichéd. Still, there's tons of great jokes especially in certain parts.My favorites are when he uses the mace to accidentally destroy stuff. There's these great bits with a drawbridge too. There's quite a few random explosions in the movie as well. We need to have more of that in comedies! While not that long, it does give off the feeling of an epic comedy because of how big it can get. It really is a James Bond parody. ***

Red-Barracuda Like many film series before it, the 'Pink Panther' series adopted the approach of going for greater levels of absurdity as it went on. To this end The Pink Panther Strikes Again is by far the most cartoon-like in the series up to this point. It is notable in giving Herbert Lom his most prominent role in the series and he uses the opportunity to chew up the scenery at every given moment. His Chief Inspector Dreyfuss escapes from the insane asylum that he was incarcerated in and transforms into a master criminal who kidnaps a scientist and forces him to make him a death ray which he uses to hold the world to ransom. His demand? Clouseau of course. This results in the inspector being hunted down by an assortment of international assassins.This is the first film in this series where the 'Pink Panther' name has been used in the title with no relevance beyond familiarity. The Pink Panther jewel does not feature at all, although we do get the animated character in more entertaining credit sequence shenanigans. But like is always the case in this series, Peter Sellers is the star attraction as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau. His comedy routines do once more rely a lot on disguises and slapstick, with much of his physical comedy in particular being excellent. The interrogation scene in the country manor, especially, being a sequence of comic excellence. As a whole though, this one was probably a slight step down from the previous entry The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1975). The more exaggerated tone diluted the humour slightly for me, making it just a little too absurd for my preference. Still, there remains a good amount of amusing comedy here and Sellers is very good again. Also, of note was an appearance of Lesley-Anne Down as a slinky Russian hitwoman, bringing a nice dose of sensuality to proceedings.

John austin For my money, The Pink Panther Strike Again is the funniest of all the Pink Panther movies.Peter Sellers is back as the clueless Inspector Clouseau. Herbert Lom is hysterical as Chief Inspector Dreyfus who has finally gone mad and kidnaps a scientist in order to construct a death ray.Clouseau's slow motion kung fu battle with Cato rates as one of the funniest slap stick bits of the 1970s. There are good comedy performances all around, and a cameo from Omar Sharif as the Egyptian assassin. The cross dressing butler, Jarvis, does a great job with "Until You Love Me," (voiced by Julie Andrews, who was married to Blake Edwards at the time).There hasn't been comedy like this in years. Peter Sellers makes the others look second rate by comparison.

OllieSuave-007 This is the fifth film in the original Pink Panther series, returning Peter Sellers as Jacques Clouseau, who finds himself a target from the mentally-challenged Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom). The intrigue starts when Dreyfus builds a Doomsday machine and then demand someone kills Clouseau, or else he will use the machine to destroy cities. This leads to endless fun adventures where 22 assassins from all over the world are tracking Clouseau, while he himself tries to find Dreyfus and commit him back to the asylum. Sellers' continued ineptness and bungling personality as Clouseau make this a very hilarious film as physical comedy and slapstick humor fill up the screen endlessly. The obsessive Charles Dreyfus brilliantly demonstrates how one's ineptness and clumsiness could drive someone off-the-charts, making him a pretty formidable villain in the film. Burt Kwok as Cato Fong gave another memorable and hilarious performance as Clousseau's servant/sidekick and Leslie-Anne Down as Olga gave a charming performance opposite Clouseau. The fun crime story, adventures, and non-stop physical comedy continue in this film, along with Henry Mancini's memorable music themes and the animated opening and ending titles featuring the Pink Panther cartoon character, with some great direction from Blake Edwards. Grade B+