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Best movie of this year hands down!

Simply Perfect

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all. Peter Sellers incredible comedic talent makes The Pink Panther Strikes Again a true diamond that has some of the craziest and funniest goofs that people had the pleasure to see back then and believe me viewers and fans of the Franchise won't be disappointed. (10/10)

We thought this was hilarious when it was run endlessly on HBO in the early 1980's, and we quoted it all the time: "Does your deug baht?" "Do you have a reum?". I was looking forward to seeing it again recently, but thought it fell rather flat when I finally did. It has its moments, and Herbert Lom is entertaining as "the lunatic Dreyfus", but it's not the gem I remember. (How's this for a line I bet they wish they could take back in a screwball comedy: on the topic of the disintegration of the UN, Dreyfus screams, "I want a crater! Wreckage! Twisted metal! Something the world will never forget!" In another couple decades the Twin Towers would fill that request for real.) The end picks up a little bit after a sagging middle (I thought that bedroom ambush between Clouseau and Cato would never end), so it's worth hanging on to get to the finale which has some clever stuff in it. Not as good as I remember it, though.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976): Dir: Blake Edwards / Cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Dawn, Burt Kwouk, Omar Sharif: Here is arguably the best of the Pink Panther comedies and it certainly lives up to the reputation by providing among the best slapstick has to offer. Inspector Clouseau fumbles through another case where the solution depends on his ignorance to logic. When his former boss breaks out of prison, he commandeers a ray gun and set to use it to destroy major cities. Sight jokes are exquisite thanks to director Blake Edwards, the mastermind behind the hilarity of these films. He also made another hilarious send off to slapstick with The Great Race. Peter Sellers is fantastic as Clouseau whose quest depends on pure luck of his solutions, and he has a knack for disguises particularly when his enemy suffers a tooth ache. Herbert Lom is priceless as the villain whose sanity is tested within every stroke of bad luck. Lesley-Anne Dawn plays a diva whose seduction is foreign to Clouseau. Her initial scheme backfires but through a change of heart she will encounter a sight joke involving a bed that must be seen to be believed. Omar Sharif makes a cameo as an Egyptian assassin who makes a blunder when taking aim at Clouseau. Finally, Burt Kwouk plays Clouseau's Japanese fight companion who gets laid up but not down and out in this hilarious caper comedy. Score: 9 / 10

For me, this movie is enjoyable because it's a total parody of the classic Bond films. It includes all the necessary elements: a madman with a doomsday machine who wishes to take over the world, a shapely female spy who abandons her country to join with our hero, (although she only thinks it's Clousseau; it's really Omar Sharif...). And more spies than you can swing a dead cat at, and of course, at the end, the villain's lair is utterly destroyed in a huge display of pyrotechnics. This makes the film unique in the Pink Panther series, and as a huge Bond fan, it makes it my favorite. Tragically, Peter Sellers died shortly after filming this picture, and all of the subsequent attempts to revive the franchise have, in my opinion, failed.