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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

With the success of Blake Edwards' 1963 comedy caper film "The Pink Panther" starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Claudia Cardinale, the iconic cat that we see in the opening credits, created by Friz Freling and David H. DePatie, would be spun off into a series of shorts released under United Artists, further cementing the character into pop culture for years to come. The first one of these shorts, and arguably one of the best of the bunch is "The Pink Phink", directed by Freling and released one year after the release of the original feature he made his debut on.The plot goes like this: The Pink Panther, the silent cool cat himself, disagrees with the decorator's choice of color for a house, which happens to be blue. The panther then decides to make the changes himself by painting the house pink, much to the dismay of the decorator, would eventually be known as "The Little Man" and later as "Big Nose".For an animated short, it's a simple premise, but really, a simple premise is all it needs, because the short itself is simple in and of itself. The animation, while not as minimalistic as a UPA cartoon, is pretty minimal, and understandably so, because the budgets for animated shorts at the time were at an all-time low. Some would even outsource their animation out of the states. However, like a lot of animators and directors in Hollywood at the time, they were still able to adapt to the budget cuts and still make an entertaining short on par with a lot of the classics that came before it. In fact, "The Pink Phink" won the Oscar for Best Cartoon Short Subject, meaning it doesn't have to be the animated equivalent of the Mona Lisa to be good. Not only is it simple, but it's also rather funny.The film would be followed by many other shorts starring The Pink Panther, which would later lead to spin off series that would be associated with the character, such as "The Inspector" and "The Ant and the Aardvark". Overall, "The Pink Phink" is definitely worth a look if you're a fan of Blake Edwards' "Pink Panther" movies and animation in general.

There is certainly some irony to it that it needed an MGM movie to get Warner Bros cartoon filmmaking legend Friz Freleng his first and only Oscar. This 6.5-minute film was made 50 years ago and stars the Pink Panther and a little man who wants to paint everything blue. However, in the end, everything is pink and this does not only include the walls of the house, but the entire world including the human character. So yeah, some smart ideas included in here. I especially liked the one where they simultaneously painted the top/bottom of the wall blue/pink. A good watch, but no material here for anything over 7 minutes. Still some laughs and as always there is no dialog in here, but we hear the Pink Panther theme for the entire film. The animation is fairly simple, so this one relies more on wit in terms of story. And as a whole I think it delivers in this area. Recommended.

This is clever right from the opening credits and, as I learned here at IMDb, was the first theatrical Pink Panther cartoon, and it won an Åcademy Award!To be honest, I didn't laugh out loud at anything in here, but I throughly enjoyed this probably smiled throughout most of it. To me, the inventiveness of this cartoon was the attraction. How many interesting and humorous ways can someone paint over what another person has just painted? Well, this cartoon will show you. I liked the idea of no background but only the object being painted drawn in the cartoon. It made for some unique animation.This set the tone for many enjoyable Pink Panther cartoons to follow, ones in which there is no dialog but the visuals so well done that none are required.

Man oh man this episode gets funnier every time I watch it and I love it how the Pink Panther keeps on painting the house pink while the guy was trying to paint the house blue, this episode is timeless and I consider it one of the best cartoon episodes ever made in television history! I love the moments where the Pink Panther pours pink paint in the man's gun and the man ended up shooting paint at the Pink Panther, it's no surprise that this episode won an academy award for the short subject and it was the first time the studio won an Oscar with its first cartoon release, WAY TO GO!!! While I consider the Pink Panther shorts from 1964-68 to be the Golden Years this episode is on par with the best shorts of the Golden Years, the 1969-72 was also a really good era for the Pink Panther shorts but not quite in the same league as the episodes from 1964-68, the 1974-76 Pink Panther were a hit and miss for me and the 1977-80 shorts was where they really hit rock bottom, many of the shorts from 1977-80 were mediocre at best and the music seemed to be too fast and the gags weren't as well timed.