If you thought THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN was the best of the Pink Panther series, you will probably not be impressed by this one. But if your favorite is A SHOT IN THE DARK, as mine is, my guess is that you'll like REVENGE.
I personally didn't enjoy STRIKES AGAIN all that much; to me it doesn't really fit in. As far as I'm concerned, it is REVENGE, not STRIKES AGAIN, that makes sense following RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER.
By this fifth PINK PANTHER outing, they must have been running out of ideas. Even without the death of Sellers, it would have been unwise to try to continue the series. But while STRIKES AGAIN took the whole Dreyfus story line as far as it could without really adding anything to it, REVENGE actually manages to add a bit of a new twist to it: Dreyfus *thinks* Clouseau is dead, but then keeps *seeing* him. And Herbert Lom does great as Dreyfus, especially in the "funeral" scene. Nonetheless, it's clear that the Dreyfus character, like the Clouseau one, should have been retired after this.
I personally didn't enjoy STRIKES AGAIN all that much; to me it doesn't really fit in. As far as I'm concerned, it is REVENGE, not STRIKES AGAIN, that makes sense following RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER.
By this fifth PINK PANTHER outing, they must have been running out of ideas. Even without the death of Sellers, it would have been unwise to try to continue the series. But while STRIKES AGAIN took the whole Dreyfus story line as far as it could without really adding anything to it, REVENGE actually manages to add a bit of a new twist to it: Dreyfus *thinks* Clouseau is dead, but then keeps *seeing* him. And Herbert Lom does great as Dreyfus, especially in the "funeral" scene. Nonetheless, it's clear that the Dreyfus character, like the Clouseau one, should have been retired after this.