For me this is the last of the Pink Panther films, and it has always been a lot of fun for me. Yes, it is not as good as The Pink Panther Strikes Again or A Shot in the Dark(both my personal favs), but this is third for me. Clouseau is back. Dreyfuss is back. Kato is back, and Blake Edwards and Henry Mancini as well. While I agree that some of the humor is a bit forced and it does looked rushed, there are some really good things about the film. Sellers is still in top-notch form whether he is dressed as Toulouse Latrec singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" or as a salty Swedish sea captain with an inflatable parrot on his shoulder or as a rotund "Godfather" gangster type with padding in his mouth and him fist pumping wildly. He is funny. PERIOD. Herbert Lom is not good. He is great. He makes these films as Chief Inspector Drefuss. The scene where he has to give Clouseau a eulogy is priceless. He was so good in that scene. Oddly enough my favorite scene in the whole film is near the end where Clouseau, dressed in his gangster garb, is running from Drefuss who is shooting frantically at him. Clouseau says something to the effect that it is, he,Clouseau, and Drefuss, stammering, eye rolling, says, "I know." Great stuff. Burt Kwouk is always good as are many of the character actors and though Dyan Cannon and Robert Webber are a little less than believable as French folk, they are decent enough. While the story in this one is a bit jumpy, the whole thing is brought together by Edwards funny direction and attention to comedic detail and, for me most importantly, Mancini's score which is one of his finest in the series. All of his music carries the film where it may have other-wised dragged.
Review of Revenge of the Pink Panther
