OllieSuave-007 The Pink Panther was gift-wrapping a basketball when it drops to the floor and bounces out the window, knocking the pointy-nosed man below on his balcony swimming pool and rolls down to the street. The Pink Panther chases the bouncing basketball into a zoo, which crosses path with an ostrich and two seals. The ball seemingly develops a mind of its own and decides to bounce away from the pursuing panther.For a cartoon, I thought a bouncing basketball with a mind of its own was over-imaginative and thought up with not much substance and clever ideas. The cartoon is basically just the Pink Panther chasing the ball around - not much to laugh about and not much entertainment to go out.Grade D---

TheLittleSongbird There are better Pink Panther cartoons but also worse, Pink 8 Ball while short of classic status is an improvement over the previous cartoon, the pointless Pink-In. Admittedly the ending is too ridiculous to really take at face value(yes even for a cartoon that even from knowing about the storyline that it was going to be a strange one), while elegantly coloured the animation is a little too simple and rushed-looking and the story is on the predictable side. The music though is zesty and almost seductive with the classic theme tune still not ageing a jot. There are some fun gags too, if very unusual ones, especially with the ostrich and with the ball impersonating a mannequin. It is true that Pink 8 Ball is in some ways a surreal cartoon, but amidst the silliness there is also a fair degree of charm and the pacing has zest(even with the ending and story not being as strong the gags keep things afloat), which makes that unusual feeling tangible at least. Pinky is still very cool and is always watchable, his comic timing without fault, but the basketball has the most effective gags and is the funnier character perhaps, but there have been more interesting support characters in the Pink Panther cartoons. All in all, an enjoyable if very strange entry(providing that you don't find it too weird to not properly like it) in the Pink Panther series, not among the best or the worst, more at a comfortable position in the middle. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Atreyu_II This cartoon is quite unusual. Funny, yes, but awkward and a little stupid, to be sincere. It's not one of Pink Panther's finest, but it is okay. Simple but unpredictable, acceptable artwork (without being fine) and some good gags.Here, Pinky lives an adventure with an infernal basketball. It starts by falling down the building and right on the little white man's head. As soon as Pinky recovers the ball, that's when strange things happen until the end. The ball wins a life and a mind of its own. The ball stubbornly refuses to obey to Pinky and, among other things, puts Pinky in trouble, makes Pinky follow it through the entire city and even becomes a giant basketball during some moments.The ending is the dumbest part: the basketball falls in love with another ball. Pinky never manages to recover the ball. The ball just won't take any orders. I wouldn't put up with that, I'd quit on the ball.

Spleen The Pink Panther chases a basketball with a mind of its own - literally, as it turns out: it catches a taxi, impersonates a mannequin head, falls in love with a volleyball, etc. Each strange turn of events comes across as just another desperate attempt to keep the cartoon going. If the basketball had bounced so as to LOOK as though it was obeying the laws of physics the surrealism might have had some charm and the contrivances might have had some zest ... hell, if the basketball had even had a minimal personality, the cartoon might have worked. The artwork is disappointing, too.