Revenge of the Pink Panther Reviews

The funny thing with this franchise was that both Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards would claim after each installment that they were done but, at this point, it was so successful that kept making those and Edwards would keep on making more of them even after Sellers passed away. At the time, Peter Sellers’s mental and physical state was so bad, it made the production of this movie apparently extremely chaotic but that’s not something you would really notice when you watch this movie. Concerning the movie itself, well, to be honest, I really had a hard time to care about the damned thing. The first really weird thing was that, even though Chief Inspector Dreyfus threatened the whole world and even disappeared/died in ‘The Pink Panther Strikes Again’, he was still released (once again) from a psychiatric hospital as if the events in the previous movie never took place. I mean, I can imagine that the comedic interaction between Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom had always been a favorite among the fans but this approach was just so lazy. To make things worse, this time, it was the French mob who wanted to kill Clouseau which was just way too similar to what happened in the previous movie. At least, Dyan Cannon was a really lovely lady and they did give her more to do than the other female characters involved in this franchise. However, how she got entangled in this whole affair was just way too random. Even worse was this character Claude Russo. Maybe I missed something (I doubt it though) but the guy showed up completely out of nowhere and was killed within a few mins. Anyway, to conclude, I think I was actually rather generous with my rating here but I guess it might be still worth a look, at least, if you really like the genre.