The Return of the Pink Panther
RETURN is the third installment in the popular Pink Panther series and a reunion for director Blake Edwards and comedian Peter Sellers, who had not made a Panther film since A SHOT IN THE DARK a decade earlier. This time the bumbling French detective Inspector Clouseau is reluctantly called back into service by Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) when someone swipes the infamous Pink Panther diamond from the museum in Lugash. The prime suspect is the smoothly aristocratic jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton (Christopher Plummer), aka the Phantom. Clouseau creates his usual comic mayhem in an assortment of European watering holes as he attempts to track down the jet-setting criminal. While Lytton, who is, on this rare occasion, innocent of the crime in question, joins in the pursuit of the real criminals to avoid arrest, his lovely wife, Claudine (Catherine Schell), leads the myopic Clouseau on a wild-goose chase. As usual, Clouseau's creative methods of deduction drive Inspector Dreyfus ever closer to the brink of insanity.
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Fourth in the series, promisingly reuniting Edwards and Sellers with their respective careers not exactly buoyant since...
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This is one of those rare comedy treats where everyone from Grandma down to little Sarah can get together and laugh for a couple of hours.
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A ragbag of old jokes, cinematic in-jokes and cartoon-style sight gags that passes the time most agreeably. None of it really makes much sense as the film ...
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I'm not sure this is the brilliant film as everybody says it is, but it is good and very funny!
The begining keeps you watching, but the middle ...
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- 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
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What can I say that No Peter Sellers has said already about the panther movies?
Simply sit back and watch the fun unfold, You won't be ...
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