Description:An extremely creative animation of the opening credits gets this thoroughly diverting movie off to a breezy start. Fans of the original comedy (1964) will feel right at home with the bungling Inspector Clouseau, one of the most inept chaps ever to enter the ranks for law-and-order. He is asked by an Arab government to help them locateAn extremely creative animation of the opening credits gets this thoroughly diverting movie off to a breezy start. Fans of the original comedy (1964) will feel right at home with the bungling Inspector Clouseau, one of the most inept chaps ever to enter the ranks for law-and-order. He is asked by an Arab government to help them locate the Pink Panther diamond, which has been stolen from their supposedly impregnable national museum. Clouseau believes the theft to be the work of Sir Charles Litton — better known as "The Phantom." In order to protect himself, the crafty Litton sets out on his own to find the cook while his wife Claudine diverts Closeau.
The action is a slapstick devotee's dream come true. Our clumsy hero is undone by faulty vehicles, a telephone, a doorbell, revolving doors, a vacuum cleaner, a lamp, a parrot, and an overly zealous Oriental manservant who is given to secret hiding places and surprise Kung Fu attacks. The sight gags come on fast and furiously. The story line flies in several directions at once but everywhere we look there's a laugh!
Peter Sellars is superb as the doltish inspector. Herbert Lom has a comic field day as hi superior driven mad by Clouseau's ineptitudes. Catherine Schell is clever as she unsettles the plodding investigator, and Christopher Plummer fares well as the intrepid Phantom.... (more)(less)
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"Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies" was the tag-line on film posters...well, we all know where they got that line from. ;) Sellers is wonderful as the madly inept yet extremely fortunate Inspector Clouseau, in his third appearance as such.
I never tire of the slapsticky delight of The Pink Panther! "
" Watched December 7th - Netflix Streaming -
1st Viewing
"I tell you, infamous powers are at work, The instant you assign me to a case the underworld hears about it and I am set upon - It is amazing that I am still alive."
- Jacques Clouseau
I actually saw this film in the theater when it came out, but the only thing I remembered about it was the final scene, so I am marking it as a first time viewing. Return of the Pink Panther is the 3rd in the series with Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau"
"I missed David Niven as Sir Charles. Here, Christopher Plummer plays the part.
But Sellers is genious, of course, and deservingly has all the attention of the plot. Herbert Lom is simply wonderful as Dreyfus, every time hating Clouseau more and more.
The Return of the Pink Panther still has some of the funniest scenes of the whole Pink Panther series!
Mind that I consider the Pink Panther series, only those which has Peter Sellers in them. Not those money chasers done after his death (includi"
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Watched In 2012
Phillydude's Movie Log - December, 2012 
WATCHED 2012 
The Third One is the Charm
The Evolution of Peter Sellers
