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I would admit the original Panther is the more stylish of them but rarely have I laughed so hard with a film than with Revenge.
2. The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975)
3. The Pink Panther (1963)
4. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
5. Revenge Of The Pink Panther (1978)
6. Pink Panther (2006)
7. Trail Of The Pink Panther (1982)
8. Curse Of The Pink panther (1983)
9. Son Of The Pink Panther (1993)
If anyone is interested, and hasn't seen them, there's a good retrospective on the orininal and rebooted series on youtube.
@GoldenGun Revenge certainly has the most American feel of the original Blake Edwards Panther films which is not necessarily either a compliment or a criticism, just an objective description of it with Dyan Cannon and Robert Webber prominent among the supporting cast members. But I found it the funniest and thought Miss Cannon made a fun leading lady for Sellers to work with. I like how the finale in Hong Kong recalls What's Up Doc?
@MajorDSmythe Why oh why I am not surprised that the one with Elke would be your favorite, Major? ;)
Guilty, i'm affraid.
It's also an early one, so the humour was still fresh, the introduction of Dreyfus (and his decent into madnes, winking and all), as well as Cato. But... yes, there's also early-mid 60's Elke... so another reason.
;)
Highly recommend watching this documentary if you have not seen it. It really does not put the late Lynne Frederick in a good light at all.
I read several times that A Shot in the Dark is the best of them all. I'd give that one a try for reconsideration of the series, but won't if I don't find a Blu-ray disk.
The Pink Panther is a perfect film. The script, cast, locations, and that soundtrack! One of my all time favorites up there on the shelf with Barry’s for me. I also have grown to love Capucine in this movie... she was a French model turned actress and is not only a credible actor but really good at light comedy. She seems genuinely amused by Sellers at points and it’s endearing. (Love her in North to Alaska too, which I came to late and is now a favorite... very Americana, like Walt Disney level). I think Niven is at his best here too... and then there’s Sellers turning superstar.
Shot in the Dark is the best sequel ever, well second only to the Empire Strikes Back.
I was disappointed by Inspector Clouseau when I caught on tv randomly as a kid... didn’t even know it existed. I also love Arkin in Russians Are Coming but he’s not Sellers and they shouldn’t have tried without him.
I love the 70s Panther movies but more in a nostalgia way I guess... Revenge I think was my favorite in terms of just straight laughing and I think Sellers and Cannon are great together. The ending comes a little too quick and slapsticky. Return is great but I always found a little slow and the laughs a little too far and few, but still good overall. Strikes I like but don’t love, it’s the most cartoony start to finish.
I wish they skipped every other movie after Revenge. Never heard Romance was a thing so that’s sad it didn’t happen, but at least there are 5 great movies overall and 2 classics!
You can check it out HERE: www.avclub.com/the-pink-panther-series
"In a twist for the franchise, the Pink Panther will be integral to the movie’s storyline as the imaginary friend to a “smooth operating” inspector...."
You can check out the full article HERE: www.cinemablend.com/news/
I got a chuckle out of the story saying it's got talent from two of the year's biggest hits, Sonic the Hedgehog and Bad Boys for Life. Considering all the movies that didn't come out due to the pandemic that's kind of dubious praise.
I can go one worse than McCarthy, Amy Schumer.
In ancient days before man, there were Gods. There was a god for all reasons, a god for all seasons. One of those gods was the Trickster (sometimes identified as e.g. Kokopelli, Cupid, Loki, etc.) The Trickster would often come down from the Ethereal Plain to the Earthly Plain and walk in the forest in the form of a pink panther.
Why a pink panther? Strangely colored animals are a hallmark of mythology: a blue ox, a white buffalo, white elephants, pink elephants… so, he was a pink panther.
As the Pink Panther, the Trickster was always messing with the other animals. He tweaked the elephant’s nose. He taught the signifying monkey how to signify. And he told a joke to the hyenas that was so funny they laugh about it still.
The other animals got fed up with his hijinks and they prayed to the other gods for deliverance from the Pink Panther. And the other gods heard their prayers.
Because the other gods were also fed up with the Trickster’s antics. They only needed an excuse to put the kibosh on him. So they summoned him back to Valhalla/Olympus/Heaven, and as he was transitioning from the corporeal realm to the spiritual realm they snatched him up and imprisoned him into a diamond. And the diamond fell to earth and was lost for a long time…
But not forever! Man arose and found the diamond. The ancient Egyptians worshipped it (insert shots of the Pink Panther in hieroglyphic form), but they lost it to the Greeks. It made its way into Persia and became a part of the Peacock Throne. But it was always cursed with the spirit of the Trickster. Whoever owned it—or even came into close contact with it, such as Inspector Clouseau—would suffer from slipping on a banana peel, or an exploding cigar, or a pie in the face.
How can we be sure this is the same diamond after thousands of years? It is easy to recognize: held up to the light, you can still see the Trickster imprisoned within, in the form of a pink panther, crouched and ready to spring.
Flash forward to 1937. The diamond has been lost for centuries, but the Nazis are close to finding it. They plan to gift it to the King of England, so that the King slips on a banana peel or something. But the Americans intercept a Nazi cable and figure out the scheme, and they hire an archeologist adventurer of their own to find the diamond first—so that we can gift it to Hitler, and it will be Hitler who gets the pie in the face.
RAIDERS OF THE PINK PANTHER.
In the final scene, Hitler opens a birthday present and finds a fabulous diamond. Boy, is he surprised and impressed! He turns to thank the giver—only to get accidentally kicked hard in the nards by a goose-stepping soldier! FADE OUT. THE END.
The Pink Panther will return in CULT OF THE PINK PANTHER. A clan of Ninjas worship the Trickster and travel the world causing mayhem in his honor. But an epic April Fool’s prank goes wrong and causes Nixon to win the election of 1968….
https://film.avclub.com/it-wasn-t-until-the-second-pink-panther-that-inspector-1846451541
the Hulu whodunnit will be the first and last time the 76-year-old stars in a TV show.
Read the article at The AV Club, and scroll through the discussion section for commentary on his career, including THIS LINK to a rare positive appraisal of 2009's The Pink Panther 2:
"It is possible that this is the best Pink Panther film since 1964’s A Shot in the Dark. which isn’t as shocking as it sounds if you look at the state of Pink Panther films from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s."
I'm not sure I agree with that, but it could be an interesting discussion if anyone wants to chime in...?
I am a big fan of Only Murders In The Building the first season was excellent, I am only 2 episodes into Season 2, I was hoping there would be a Season 3 the cast work so well together.
To start with I thought Steve Martin's first Pink Panther film was much better than his second. I would rank all the Peter Sellers films above what followed (The films made when Sellers was alive.
Don’t agree at all, I love all the 70’s Pink Panther films, I actually prefer both Return and Strikes Again to ASITD.
Even if PP2 is an entry that you like, surely it doesn’t beat any of the Sellers films though, does it?
@Fire_and_Ice_Returns so yes, I agree with you on the Sellers films. I’d actually even take Trail over anything non-Sellers.
The original conception of the character was always intended to be a sort of pisstake on that kind of suave European crime solver seen in so much of mid-20th century fiction.
That's why, while I thought Martin's take was fine, it ultimately didn't work as well as it could have because it was a comedic spin on an archetype that didn't really exist anymore.
So a more modern approach might be a parodic take on all the intensely depressed rumpled detectives with traumatic backstories that make up every crime drama now.
Also, someone finally uploaded that rare Bond-spoof trailer from Revenge.
Great, thanks for sharing! Tagging @Birdleson.
I love how everything in the gunbarrel is reversed. The circles move from right to left, Clouseau from left to right, the pattern on the gunbarrel is mirrored, the pink "blood" flows upwards.