Return of the Pink Panther

WP: Hi everyone! Welcome to the williampinn zone. Today I'll be reviewing The Return of the Pink Panther. Here to help me with this review are the cast members. Let's start with Inspector Clouseau. Good day, sir, and welcome.

Clouseau: Guud dey tew yew.

WP: If my understanding is correct, this was the third Pink Panther film made.

Clouseau: Ah, but of course! You-er understandeeng eez correct. Theez eez zee turd filem we make.

WP: I really enjoyed the madcap Pink Panther cartoon that accompanied the opening credits. Moreover, who could NOT get into the groove of this film with Henry Mancini's classic score playing in the background? The opening scene takes place inside the Lugash museum which had the Pink Panther diamond on display. Why was the diamond called the Pink Panther?

Clouseau: Yew see, my guud man, zee dimone eez flawed. When yew hold eet up tew zee laht, yew can see ay pink panTHAIR springeeng.

WP: Fascinating. Later in the scene, a darkly dressed, masked thief steels the diamond using all kinds of sophisticated gadgets. The thief leaves a glove as a calling card. I thought the whole theft scene was well executed. Since you recovered the diamond the first time it was stolen, you were summoned again to recover it in this film. Any ideas who the thief might be?

Clouseau: Well, mah guud man, tew know zee an-SAIRE tew your quest-SHONE, ah must use mah fahnly honed in-STINCTS from spendeeng many yeeerz on zee force. Zee gluv yew speak of belongs tew non-oth-THAIRE than zee Phantom, Sir Charles Litton.

Dreyfus: (With a twitching eye) Clouseau, you idiot! You should be off this case! You should be off the FORCE! YOU SHOULD BE DEAD! Ha ha, hahahahaha!

WP: Oh, welcome, you must be Chief Inspector Dreyfus.

Dreyfus: Yes I am. What of it? (His eye twitching more violently.)

WP: Well, I thought you were hysterically funny in this movie, especially when, during one of your attempts to murder Clouseau, you shot off your nose. I also think it is strange that you do not have a French accent like Clouseau here. You are both French police, no?

Clouseau: That eez vayree straange. Ah ne-VAIRE noticed that be-FORE-

Cato: (Attacks Clouseau) HIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Clouseau: CATO! NOT NOW, CATO!

WP: Wow! Guys, what the hell is going on?

Clouseau: (Cato and Clouseau circle each other with cat-like moves, exchanging Judo chops.) Yew see, mah guud man...HA!... eet eez Cato's job...HI YAH!... tew preepaire me for zee possibili-TEE of an assas-SONE...HYAH!...who could strahk at any MO-ment.

WP: That fight scene between you and Cato was the funniest part of the whole movie, in my opinion.

(Clouseau does a flying leap at Cato, misses and crashes into the pantry where he becomes covered with flower. The phone rings.)

Clouseau: Cato, zee fewn eez ringeeng.

Cato: (Cato lets his guard down and picks up the phone receiver.) Hello, Inspector Clouseau's residence-

Clouseau: HYAH!!! (WHACK! Clouseau hits Cato in the back of the head with a sharp Judo chop and knocks Cato out.).

WP: Yep, that was one funny scene. Another funny scene was the one where you go to the South Of France to pay the Phantom (Sir Charles) a visit at his mansion.

Clouseau: Ah yes, ah ree-mem-BAIRE. Ah was weareeng a cle-VAIRE disguise-as ay tele-fewn ree-PAIRE-mon. Lady Lit-TON had neew ah-dea who ah was.

Dreyfus: You FOOL! Of course she knew who you were and knew you were there to spy on Sir Charles! YOU IDIOT! I'LL KILL YOU...hahahaha...KILL YOU (bites Clouseau's ankle like a mad dog).

WP: Hey guys, save it for the movie! Oh well. LOL! If you are a Peter Sellers fan like me, you will really get a kick out of this film. It is a classic. I have watched this film more than five times, and that's why I rate it five stars. The slapstick humor and the madcap characters never get old-especially the fumbling and bumbling, yet incredibly fortuitous Inspector Clouseau.

Cast

Insp. Jacques Clouseau-Peter Sellers
Sir Charles Litton-Christopher Plummer
Lady Claudine Litton-Catherine Schell
Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus-Herbert Lom
Cato Fong-Burt Kwouk

Screenplay written by Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman
Directed by Blake Edwards
Release Date: 1975
Runtime: 113 mins.
Rated PG