Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

invisibleunicornninja I don't know why I watched this movie. There is no entertainment to be had here. It is really, really, really boring.

jzappa Where Blake Edwards was once a handler of comedies combining slapstick, sophisticated wit, melancholia and social criticism, which was nearly forgotten by the time he's sold out this far into the eponymous franchise, because this one is just slapstick. Nothing else. He's mostly celebrated as the creator of the Pink Panther series. But this one's problem is how it drags. There isn't any anticipation felt or even created, any comic anguish, that nearly Hitchcockian suspense where time suddenly dilates to allow a burst of laughter.Other than the usual homage to the silent cinema of Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Leo McCarey, the Clouseau films seem to reveal preoccupations that come up again and again in Edwards' work. Clouseau is very much a hysterical white male and much of the series' humor comes from the ludicrous gap between his presumptions of cultural superiority and his idiotic behavior. He feels free to treat his Asian manservant Cato brutally, and proclaims his mastery over women, yet he is spectacularly inept at everything he attempts and is constantly humiliated. Clouseau's humiliations are particularly evident in a subtext of the films involving his predominant sexual embarrassment and failure.An elaborately original cartoon throughout the opening credits gets this amusingly distracting movie off to a lighthearted start before the bungling Inspector is asked by an Arab government to help them trace the Pink Panther diamond, which has been stolen from their theoretically impenetrable national museum. Clouseau deems the burglary to be the graft of Sir Charles Litton, a.k.a. The Phantom. To facilitate his own protection, the cunning Litton embarks on his own to recover the offender while his wife Claudine deflects Clouseau.The action is not so much a slapstick aficionado's ice cream castle as a slapstick aficionado's house of Cheetos. Our inelegant star is disengaged by defective vehicles, a telephone, a doorbell, revolving doors, a vacuum cleaner, a lamp, a parrot, and the exceedingly fanatical Cado who is provided with secret hiding places and surprise Kung Fu assaults. The sight gags come on like lightning and frantically, but the story line flies in several directions at once, where the original Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark were methodically clever caper plots constructed out of their slapstick scenarios. Return of the Pink Panther is constructed right in synch with the brain's most rudimentary wavelengths, which is perhaps why it's a good house of Cheetos, a vegging-out flick.

jubilee77 This is perhaps the best of the Pink Panther series of films ever made as Peter Sellers reprised the role of the bungling french detective of the Surette after an absence of ten years and surely was the beginning of what should have been the somewhat short-lived and fully fledged versions of these movies while the earlier two films to feature Sellers' as Clouseau, weren't all that funny. Christopher Plummer was an excellent choice as a replacement for David Niven as Charles Litton having already starred in major films like The Sound of Music although Niven reprised the role in the first posthumous "pink" movie. Blake Edwards over-directed this one and there are lots of slow motion gags throughout the film's length and is helped by some of the usually funny dialogues and disaster after disaster for the Frenchman. It is a great shame that these were cut short by the premature death of Sellers and despite his comic abilities and ideas, it became a different matter off-screen.

kai ringler Peter Sellers is at it again,, this time in Return of the Pink Panther, and once again Chief Inspector Dreyfuss is hot on his trail trying to kill him,, while he is trying to track down the clever, and wily, Christopher Plummer,, the suspected thief of the famous Pink Panther diamond,, the laughs come very fast and if you're not ready will inundate you all at once,, for instance where Closeau bends over to sneeze and inspector Dreyfuss misses the shot the would have ended the whole entire Pink Panther series. granted now this one isn't as good as say the first two , but hey it's a sequel that's been going on for 11 years now,, and i think it's still pretty strong in my book,, so all in all i think this one is pretty good even as a stand alone movie.