ThiefHott Too much of everything

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues Probable the best Pink Panther series ever,when Inspector Dreyfuss gonna crazy escape of insane Asylum and try kill Closeau by any means,he hires the best killers for all over the world,every one fails on trying to,some scenes is too contrived but for Pink Panther comics fit in very well,Peter Sellers overcame yourself this time!!!Resume:First watch: 1986 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7

Red-Barracuda Like many film series before it, the 'Pink Panther' series adopted the approach of going for greater levels of absurdity as it went on. To this end The Pink Panther Strikes Again is by far the most cartoon-like in the series up to this point. It is notable in giving Herbert Lom his most prominent role in the series and he uses the opportunity to chew up the scenery at every given moment. His Chief Inspector Dreyfuss escapes from the insane asylum that he was incarcerated in and transforms into a master criminal who kidnaps a scientist and forces him to make him a death ray which he uses to hold the world to ransom. His demand? Clouseau of course. This results in the inspector being hunted down by an assortment of international assassins.This is the first film in this series where the 'Pink Panther' name has been used in the title with no relevance beyond familiarity. The Pink Panther jewel does not feature at all, although we do get the animated character in more entertaining credit sequence shenanigans. But like is always the case in this series, Peter Sellers is the star attraction as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau. His comedy routines do once more rely a lot on disguises and slapstick, with much of his physical comedy in particular being excellent. The interrogation scene in the country manor, especially, being a sequence of comic excellence. As a whole though, this one was probably a slight step down from the previous entry The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1975). The more exaggerated tone diluted the humour slightly for me, making it just a little too absurd for my preference. Still, there remains a good amount of amusing comedy here and Sellers is very good again. Also, of note was an appearance of Lesley-Anne Down as a slinky Russian hitwoman, bringing a nice dose of sensuality to proceedings.

pesic-1 This is an excellent film in many ways: the character of Cluseau is fully developed and he delivers some of the funniest moments in the Pink Panther series. Also, the bold decision to take the comedy to another level and remove all plausibility from the film actually works rather well. The problem is that too little is gained by doing it. The insanity of Dreyfus isn't particularly funny despite a sterling performance by Herbert Lom, and one begins to think that the surrealism of this installment serves mainly to cover up a weak story line, and not so much to provide fresh opportunities for comedy. Indeed, the best bits are still good old Cluseau doing his thing. The whole world conquest plot is totally unnecessary and all the good bits with Cluseau could have been made part of a storyline no different from the rest of the films. It would appear that they tried to compensate for the lack of a proper story by inserting the insane bits with Dreyfus. Indeed, the film comes across as a series of pretty good sketches with Cluseau that are stitched together with bits of pointless and poorly written filler in-between. However, despite this, the film is actually quite entertaining, which is why I give it nine stars out of ten. And let's face it, in the previous installments, all we wanted to see was Cluseau, and the scenes with the antagonists, however well written and directed, did come across as the weak bits. By the way, who is the 'Pink Panther'? It used to be a diamond, but for some reason the sequels retained that name in the title, even though the diamond no longer has anything to do with the plot.

OllieSuave-007 This is the fifth film in the original Pink Panther series, returning Peter Sellers as Jacques Clouseau, who finds himself a target from the mentally-challenged Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom). The intrigue starts when Dreyfus builds a Doomsday machine and then demand someone kills Clouseau, or else he will use the machine to destroy cities. This leads to endless fun adventures where 22 assassins from all over the world are tracking Clouseau, while he himself tries to find Dreyfus and commit him back to the asylum. Sellers' continued ineptness and bungling personality as Clouseau make this a very hilarious film as physical comedy and slapstick humor fill up the screen endlessly. The obsessive Charles Dreyfus brilliantly demonstrates how one's ineptness and clumsiness could drive someone off-the-charts, making him a pretty formidable villain in the film. Burt Kwok as Cato Fong gave another memorable and hilarious performance as Clousseau's servant/sidekick and Leslie-Anne Down as Olga gave a charming performance opposite Clouseau. The fun crime story, adventures, and non-stop physical comedy continue in this film, along with Henry Mancini's memorable music themes and the animated opening and ending titles featuring the Pink Panther cartoon character, with some great direction from Blake Edwards. Grade B+