Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Red-Barracuda Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers buried the hatchet and returned after more than a decade to make another film in the 'Pink Panther' series, with Sellers once again essaying the inept Inspector Jacques Clouseau. In this one we also see the return of the character Sir Charles Litton, with Christopher Plummer very nicely taking on the role originally filled by David Niven. The plot revolves around the theft of the extremely valuable diamond the Pink Panther by a skilled cat burglar. Clouseau is quickly requested as the man to crack the case.It seems that as the 'Pink Panther' series went on, the comedy became broader and broader, with everything else becoming more and more marginalised. This is certainly true here but it does have to be said that the balance is still good enough. I actually rather liked the crime sub-plot involving the theft and the Littons. This material gave the film a sort of James Bond type of glamour which I felt was an effective counter-point to Seller's bumbling comedy. Sellers is still good, in what amounts to a series of set-pieces which mostly seem to involve ludicrous disguises and slapstick. His performance does however, lack some of the subtle brilliance that he brought to the role in the first two films in the series and the humour overall is noticeably more hit and miss now. He is joined again by two other regulars in Herbert Lom and Burt Kwouk, as respectively Chief Inspector Dreyfuss and Clouseau's martial arts obsessed valet; while it was certainly nice to see them again here, these are pretty one-dimensional characters and their antics get slightly tiresome after a bit. On the whole though, despite a few cracks in the seams, this is definitely a good entry in this series. The balance between comedy and story is sensible and the exotic international flavour adds additional production value.

bigverybadtom Ironically, the best part of the movie isn't any of the comic scenes, but the part at the beginning depicting the elaborate way the thief gets past all the traps to steal the Pink Panther jewel. While the comic scenes with Clouseau are funny, they don't all necessarily add to the storyline. In "A Shot In The Dark", Clouseau's repeated gaffes serve to ultimately drive Commissioner Dreyfus crazy; in this movie, most of them seem to just serve as filler entertainment, such as the part where he is disguised as a hotel room cleaner and has everything go wrong when he tries to do that job.The movie's other major problem is that Christopher Plummer was a poor substitute for David Niven as the Phantom. Niven was suave and cool; Plummer was a thuggish brute who resorted to breaking bones-rather unlike how a suave cat burglar is supposed to behave.This could have been a much better movie than it was.

jzappa Where Blake Edwards was once a handler of comedies combining slapstick, sophisticated wit, melancholia and social criticism, which was nearly forgotten by the time he's sold out this far into the eponymous franchise, because this one is just slapstick. Nothing else. He's mostly celebrated as the creator of the Pink Panther series. But this one's problem is how it drags. There isn't any anticipation felt or even created, any comic anguish, that nearly Hitchcockian suspense where time suddenly dilates to allow a burst of laughter.Other than the usual homage to the silent cinema of Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Leo McCarey, the Clouseau films seem to reveal preoccupations that come up again and again in Edwards' work. Clouseau is very much a hysterical white male and much of the series' humor comes from the ludicrous gap between his presumptions of cultural superiority and his idiotic behavior. He feels free to treat his Asian manservant Cato brutally, and proclaims his mastery over women, yet he is spectacularly inept at everything he attempts and is constantly humiliated. Clouseau's humiliations are particularly evident in a subtext of the films involving his predominant sexual embarrassment and failure.An elaborately original cartoon throughout the opening credits gets this amusingly distracting movie off to a lighthearted start before the bungling Inspector is asked by an Arab government to help them trace the Pink Panther diamond, which has been stolen from their theoretically impenetrable national museum. Clouseau deems the burglary to be the graft of Sir Charles Litton, a.k.a. The Phantom. To facilitate his own protection, the cunning Litton embarks on his own to recover the offender while his wife Claudine deflects Clouseau.The action is not so much a slapstick aficionado's ice cream castle as a slapstick aficionado's house of Cheetos. Our inelegant star is disengaged by defective vehicles, a telephone, a doorbell, revolving doors, a vacuum cleaner, a lamp, a parrot, and the exceedingly fanatical Cado who is provided with secret hiding places and surprise Kung Fu assaults. The sight gags come on like lightning and frantically, but the story line flies in several directions at once, where the original Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark were methodically clever caper plots constructed out of their slapstick scenarios. Return of the Pink Panther is constructed right in synch with the brain's most rudimentary wavelengths, which is perhaps why it's a good house of Cheetos, a vegging-out flick.

andyetris This film compares favorably to SO much that hits the screen nowadays that it's well worth seeing; also it's a key part of the rest of the Pink Panther 'series' although not included in the box sets so far. We get the classic "minkey" sequence and meet Cato, for the first time, in one of the series' great slapstick routines. However the film has a sort of split personality and the current DVD transfer is too grainy for a large-screen TV IMHO. So, rent it, but I'd wait for something better if you're looking to collect.I wouldn't exactly say this movie sets the tone for the rest of the series. The original starred David Niven, with an all-star supporting cast including Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau. Then Clouseau became the star of "A Shot in the Dark," which didn't involve either the Pink Panther gem nor jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton. This film has them all, so tries to 'balance' the action between Clouseau and Sir Charles. It doesn't work, and probably as a result there were no more such attempts: the series becomes all about Clouseau, and that's for the best. I like Christopher Plummer, but the movie is too 'heavy' when he's on screen - probably the writer's fault. As for Catherine Schell, I'd look at her in anything (or nothing at all) and IMHO her acting compares favorably to at least Dyan Cannon's and Elke Sommers'. Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, and Andre Maranne are of course a terrific comedic supporting cast, but Peter Arne has to straddle the comedic and serious aspects of the film, which doesn't really work out.The story shifts back and forth between the perspectives of Sir Charles and Clouseau. The Pink Panther gem, nationalized by the government of Lugash after the events of the original film, has been displayed in the national museum until stolen in a great caper sequence. Against the wishes of his frustrated boss ("how can an idiot be a police officer"), Clouseau, who (sort-of) recovered the gem previously, is recalled from beat duty ("There was some question whether it was the man or his minkey who was breaking ze law") and put on the case at the request of Lugash police chief Colonel Sharky. Clouseau naturally suspects Sir Charles, particularly since his trademark, a glove embroidered with the letter "P," was left at the scene. Sir Charles, however, is surprised; he has been living in retirement and knows nothing about the matter until it is brought to his attention by his mischievous wife Claudine. Knowing he will be suspected, Litton sets off for Lugash to find the real criminal while Clouseau sets off for Nice to investigate Sir Charles' home - and wife. Clues lead both Clouseau ("I am NOT Guy Gadbois") and Sir Charles to a Swiss hotel (and the parrot sequence.) All is revealed in the final confrontation where more than one policeman proves to have been playing a double game.Someone here said it hasn't aged well but I'd say almost the opposite - the first time you see it you'll probably think it hilarious - but it may pall the second time around.