Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom

Inspector Jacques Clouseau is missing! And so is the Pink Panther diamond.

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PG, 1 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: Blake Edwards

Release Date: December 17, 1982

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DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005

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  • February 3, 2008
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  • December 21, 2007
    The last Clouseau film to involve Peter Sellers in any way, this one was pretty widely panned on release, winning Sellers' widow a lawsuit for being an "insult" to Sellers memory, despite the fact that Blake Edwards (still directing) dedicated it to him as the "one and only" Insp...( read more)ector Clouseau. I think that's a bit on the harsh side, as long as one acknowledges the truth of the film's nature, though. Sellers' part consists entirely of outtakes, deleted scenes and recycled footage.

    We start first with bits and pieces of previous films we've never seen--Clouseau lighting his pipe in his office, first acquiring his Quasimodo disguise and so on, as well as an alternate take of his return home with groceries that goes awry, as witnessed by his neighbor. He's assigned to track down the latest theft of the Pink Panther diamond, with Dreyfus (Herbert Lom, of course) naturally protesting it. He is sent to Lugash, and after an assassination attempt (while he has had a few on him, there juuuuust might be a different explanation this time...) and his plane disappears en route. Reporter Marie Jouvet (Joanna Lumley) begins interviewing people like his former assistant Hercule LaJoy (Graham Stark, reprising his role from A Shot in the Dark), Cato (Burt Kwouk, as usual) discussing his strange employment, and The Phantom (David Niven, returning with an impressionist substituting for his heavily weakened voice). Robert Loggia also makes a second appearance in the series, but as a different mobster than he was in Revenge of the Pink Panther.

    What sort of completes the "Oops, too late!" feeling of the film is a strange, more psychedelic title sequence than I recall previously appearing in the series, this time made "in the style of" DePatie-Freleng by Art Leonardi (responsible for some of the late 60's Panther cartoons, actually). Nothing wrong with it--or with the performances of the supporting cast, or really with the writing. However, it brings to mind--this might bend a few minds, for which I apologize--episodes of one of the two anime series I've ever watched, Hokuto No Ken (aka Fist of the North Star) where periodically a character would be remembered after death by an episode consisting entirely of flashbacks with a small wrap-around. In that case it was a budget issue, pumping up the number of episodes to allow for a longer series and to keep things moving week to week without having to create new animation, but it always felt like a bit of a rip-off, whatever good there might have been done in recalling the acts of that character--much like there is some good in reviewing the work of the brilliant Sellers, but done only in bare portions here, with an even greater portion of the film than the last one devoted to the rest of the cast.

    It's not a bad way to remember Clouseau, though, and I do think that his widow went a bit far, and it's not a bad way to close out the set I bought it in, though certainly it would have been better to include Return of the Pink Panther. I would not recommend it outside of this though--a completist watch alone, I think.
  • July 23, 2008
    I think it's disgusting to make a "sequel" in which Clouseau is "missing" when he reality they used clips from previous movies because Peter Sellers was dead.
  • July 8, 2008
    Or how to milk previous footage for everything its worth.
  • October 15, 2009
    The Pink Panther diamond goes missing - and then en route to the scene of the crime, Clouseau's plane goes missing! A sleuthing reporter is assigned to memorialize the fabled detective, but in the process, she comes up against some strange behavior from a delirious Dreyfus as wel...( read more)l as Clouseau's duplicitous ex-wife, his lusty father (Mulligan) and The Phantom!

    stars Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, David Niven, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Robert Loggia and Harvey Korman.

    directed by Blake Edwards.
  • June 22, 2009
    love it since its cartoon series
  • March 30, 2009
    The movie is not the same without Peter.
  • March 7, 2009
    I don't remember this one straight away
  • February 10, 2009
    Una película con un protagonista que ya había muerto!!! el inspector Jacques Clouseau es maravilloso, la pantera rosa a sido robada y solo Clouseau podrá rescatarlo
  • January 10, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested.

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  • vampirehs
    January 11, 2009
    one of best and artistic animation one pink panther with kinf heart and funny wrongs

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