Just perfect...

Absolutely Fantastic

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

There's a tinge of sadness associated with Curse of the Pink Panther. Peter Sellers had died before the last two films of the series were made, and while The Trail of the Pink Panther used leftover footage from previous movies, this second to last installment didn't use his image at all. Also, this was David Niven's final film. He was very ill and died before its release.But, if you can get past those upsets, and you like silly, slapstick Pink Panther movies, give this one a try and see if you like it. Yes, it's not the same without Peter Sellers, but Blake Edwards tried to give Ted Wass similar gags to those used in previous films. Still, since the premise revolves around an ongoing search for Inspector Clouseau, the audience is always keenly aware of why Clouseau is really missing. In addition to David Niven, others from the original films appear in this sixth part of the series: Herbert Lom, Capucine, Robert Wagner, and Burt Kwouk. And keep an eye out for a surprise cameo from Roger Moore!

When legendary Inspector Clouseau goes missing, New York police officer Clifton Sleigh is enlisted to find him. But Sleigh turns out to be the only detective in the world more incompetent than Clouseau himself. Traveling to France, Sleigh bumbles his way into and out of trouble, while encountering a number of characters from Clouseau's past, including the charismatic jewel thief Charles Litton and his womanising nephew, George........After the death of Sellers, Edwards probably wanted to reap the legacy of his death by rushing out turgid sequels to arguably Sellers most memorable cinematic character. And unlike the previous one, where we had recycled footage of Sellers from deleted scenes and used footage from previous movies, we had a special guest star laying the famous Clouseau in an extended cameo toward the the end.And this is the only reason why I, and I fear many others,wanted to see the film, for Roger Moore's wonderfully terrible French accent, and sending himself up like never before.After all, the man was Bond at the time, and took a day off filming Octopussy to do this favour for Edwards.And honestly, it's the only reason to watch this poor excuse of a movie, Moore is hilarious and others around him in the scene know this, because half the time you can see that they just want to laugh. But the scene only lasts for around five minutes, so you have to get through ninety minutes of Wass trying to upstage Sellers, Lom looking embarrassed, Niven being disgracefully dubbed, and TV favourite Leslie Ash totally out of her depth.The story makes no sense, it feels like a lot of dodgy sketches tied together to make an incoherent story, and it all feels like they are all doing it to get a decent holiday.The franchise died when Sellers passed, but some greedy studio head just won't let a soul rest.But Moore is hilarious...

After the cut and paste film that was "Trail of The Pink Panther" Blake Edwards tries to create an American version of Clouseau in Clifton Sleigh and have him set out on a mission to find Inspector Clouseau while in the process questioning characters from the other (successful) Pink Panther films. While David Niven and Robert Wagner may be the big names it is the unknown Ted Wass who plays the lead and it is he who has to sell this at times painfully unfunny comedy to the audience. He tries hard but he just cannot replicate the talent of Peter Sellers.The plot feels stretched and the film feels very long which a comedy shouldn't. It's nice to see some of the previous stars of these films but even they aren't enough to save this film that strangely seems to be becoming a favourite with Panther fans after all these years.Blake Edwards would admit defeat after the poor reception this film was given but should really have known better than to milk the franchise for all its worth after Sellers died.

For some reason, people seem to have a problem differentiating this movie from Trail of the Pink Panther.At any rate, this work does nothing but serve to remind us how sad the world is without Peter Sellers in it.They brought back the same old favorites from Trail (Dreyfus, Cato, Litton, etc.), but they introduced a misdirected Pratt-fall humorist into a role which was designed to substitute for the missing Clouseau. Dreyfus devises a way to produce the perfect copy of Clouseau via a hard frame computer system which factors the variables and tosses out the name of the most inept idiot in the global law enforcement family. What we got was a poor guy who was obviously overwhelmed by the grand scale of what Blake Edwards proposed he should do, and boy does it show.Ted Wass was amiable as Sergeant Clifton Sleigh, but let's face it...he wasn't Clouseau in any way. I realize that Blake Edwards was losing his greatest cash cow, but to disrespect Sellers' memory like this was just sacrilege. Frankly, I'm glad they have remade the original. I hope it runs a long line of successful ventures for Steve Martin.This dreck rates a 2.0/10 from...the Fiend :.