moonspinner55 Fifth in the "Pink Panther" series (sixth if you count 1968's "Inspector Clouseau", which starred Alan Arkin) opens with a promising set-up--Clouseau, who is marked for assassination by the millionaire businessman who heads up the French mafia, is mistaken for dead--but fails to come up with anything remotely funny following the introductions. Director/producer/co-screenwriter Blake Edwards (who also gets a story credit!) does some uncharacteristically lazy work here. Peter Sellers can't even get laughs dressed in transvestite's clothes or disguised as a mafia godfather. Edwards must have been relieved to close the chapter on Clouseau after this abysmal installment, though he was persuaded to piece together another film (1982's "Trail of the Pink Panther") from series outtakes after Sellers' demise. * from ****

gridoon2018 "Revenge Of The Pink Panther" is unlikely to be most people's favorite entry in the Pink Panther series, but it earns its place in the collection. It's far too slack in its pacing, but there are scattered chuckles throughout, though the single funniest moment, paradoxically, does not belong to Peter Sellers but to Herbert Lom; it's the scene at Clouseau's "funeral" where Dreyfus has to read an eulogy speech for Clouseau but cannot stop laughing! In fact, one of the problems of this film is that Lom is underused - usually when he appears on the screen he sees Clouseau popping up out of nowhere and he faints. And talk about "underused": it was a genius piece of casting getting the buxom Valerie Leon as a whip-wielding dominatrix - so why did they make her part so tiny? At least the gorgeous Dyan Cannon's role is bigger, and the final 15 minutes feature some good multiple-vehicle chases & stunts in the streets of Hong Kong. **1/2 out of 4.

studioAT In Inspector Clouseau Peter Sellers created one of the greatest comedy characters and he and Blake Edwards reunite for a fifth Pink Panther film featuring the inept Frenchman.After Return and Strikes again the Pink Panther series began to falter at this point as the character of Clouseau began to get more and more extreme and the plots of the film began to get more and more like a James Bond spoof with the ending in particular being totally manic.One thing that is nice about this film is that we see Clouseau walk off into the distance and this is made more poignant by the fact that we now know it would be the last time Sellers played the character. The series should have ended while it was still pretty much at the top of it's game rather than being followed up by the trilogy of films Edwards made in order to try to revitalise the franchise after Seller's death.

fr_7814 I simply could not get beyond the remarks regarding race in this film: "round eye," "yellow..." Yes, these were part of culture when the film was made; we look past them today. Although I am not Asian, I lived in San Francisco too long not to have Asians as part of my life; there, I usually came to the defense of native Mandarin, Cantonese, or Tagalog speakers. I did not find the gag with bad eyeglasses to be funny at all. It reminded me of the movie, "A Fish Called Wanda," with the man who stuttered. I have encountered too many Westerners who would think nothing of this poor taste. Instead of donating to the library, or another charity, I'll destroy my copy.I did like seeing the Silver Hornet and Cato's Peugeot.