OllieSuave-007
This is the first Pink Panther sequel I've seen, and is what I think much, much funnier and exciting than the original film. Here, he is on the trail to find the thief that stole the Pink Panther jewel.This film features Clousseau's obsessive boss Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), who absolutely loathes Clousseau, and Cato Fong (Burk Kwok), Clousseau's servant. Both Clousseau and Fong join forces to track down the diamond, resulting in nothing but a fun crime story, adventures and non-stop physical, clumsy comedy. The fight between Clouseau and Cato in the apartment is hilarious and Dreyfus losing his mind due to Clousseau driving him insane is priceless.Overall, a sequel that is surpasses the first Pink Panther film by miles.Grade B+
AaronCapenBanner
Peter Sellers returns as Inspector Clouseau after an 11 year absence, in this amusing sequel which finds the Pink Panther diamond being stolen again, and Clouseau is convinced that suspected jewel thief the Phantom is behind it, which means Sir Charles Litton(Christopher Plummer taking over from David Niven) is the prime suspect, along with his beautiful wife(played by Catherine Schell, though oddly, despite the end of the original film, doesn't seem to be Clouseau's ex-wife?) Herbert Lom again plays Dreyfeuss, and is portrayed as being on the verge of insanity. Burt Kwouk plays Cato, still trying to combat his employer Clouseau! Funny film has lots of inspired scenes, as Clouseau's disguises start to become elaborate. Leads directly into "...Strikes Again!"
bigverybadtom
Ironically, the best part of the movie isn't any of the comic scenes, but the part at the beginning depicting the elaborate way the thief gets past all the traps to steal the Pink Panther jewel. While the comic scenes with Clouseau are funny, they don't all necessarily add to the storyline. In "A Shot In The Dark", Clouseau's repeated gaffes serve to ultimately drive Commissioner Dreyfus crazy; in this movie, most of them seem to just serve as filler entertainment, such as the part where he is disguised as a hotel room cleaner and has everything go wrong when he tries to do that job.The movie's other major problem is that Christopher Plummer was a poor substitute for David Niven as the Phantom. Niven was suave and cool; Plummer was a thuggish brute who resorted to breaking bones-rather unlike how a suave cat burglar is supposed to behave.This could have been a much better movie than it was.
jubilee77
This is perhaps the best of the Pink Panther series of films ever made as Peter Sellers reprised the role of the bungling french detective of the Surette after an absence of ten years and surely was the beginning of what should have been the somewhat short-lived and fully fledged versions of these movies while the earlier two films to feature Sellers' as Clouseau, weren't all that funny. Christopher Plummer was an excellent choice as a replacement for David Niven as Charles Litton having already starred in major films like The Sound of Music although Niven reprised the role in the first posthumous "pink" movie. Blake Edwards over-directed this one and there are lots of slow motion gags throughout the film's length and is helped by some of the usually funny dialogues and disaster after disaster for the Frenchman. It is a great shame that these were cut short by the premature death of Sellers and despite his comic abilities and ideas, it became a different matter off-screen.
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