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Best movie of this year hands down!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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 ****

Fifth outing for Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau finds him once again dodging assassins sent by gangsters who want him out of the way permanently. Clouseau decides to fake his death as a result, in order to go undercover to find the culprits, utilizing many more outlandish disguises in his exploits. Robert Weber and Dyan Cannon costar, and somehow(inexplicably!) Chief Inspector Dreyfuss(Herbert Lom) is still alive, and released from the mental asylum(Huh?) Though the returning cast is still game, film is just passable, since, aside from big credibility issues, it isn't quite as inspired or funny this time, but is still OK. Sadly, this was Peter Seller's last performance as Clouseau, though that wouldn't stop him from "appearing" in Part VI/Trail!

once again the Pink Panther strikes.. this time Closeau is believe to be dead bringing our Police Comissioner out of the looney bin thinking that he is perfectly safe now from the bumbling idiot. apparently our master detective got to close for comfort for our criminals and they decided to make an attempt on the poor inspector's life,, of course he isn't dead,, once he get's on the screen, he's back to his usual self trying on disguises and being his usual self. this movie has a lot of laughs and will keep you guessing for awhile.. Dyan Cannon also does well in this picture,, this isn't quite as good as some of the earlier Pink Panther movies. but all in all it's definitely got it's moments of comedic genius.

For me this is the last of the Pink Panther films, and it has always been a lot of fun for me. Yes, it is not as good as The Pink Panther Strikes Again or A Shot in the Dark(both my personal favs), but this is third for me. Clouseau is back. Dreyfuss is back. Kato is back, and Blake Edwards and Henry Mancini as well. While I agree that some of the humor is a bit forced and it does looked rushed, there are some really good things about the film. Sellers is still in top-notch form whether he is dressed as Toulouse Latrec singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" or as a salty Swedish sea captain with an inflatable parrot on his shoulder or as a rotund "Godfather" gangster type with padding in his mouth and him fist pumping wildly. He is funny. PERIOD. Herbert Lom is not good. He is great. He makes these films as Chief Inspector Drefuss. The scene where he has to give Clouseau a eulogy is priceless. He was so good in that scene. Oddly enough my favorite scene in the whole film is near the end where Clouseau, dressed in his gangster garb, is running from Drefuss who is shooting frantically at him. Clouseau says something to the effect that it is, he,Clouseau, and Drefuss, stammering, eye rolling, says, "I know." Great stuff. Burt Kwouk is always good as are many of the character actors and though Dyan Cannon and Robert Webber are a little less than believable as French folk, they are decent enough. While the story in this one is a bit jumpy, the whole thing is brought together by Edwards funny direction and attention to comedic detail and, for me most importantly, Mancini's score which is one of his finest in the series. All of his music carries the film where it may have other-wised dragged.