What's your favorite Pink Pnther film out of:
1. The Pink Panther
2. A Shot In The Dark
3. The Return Of The Pink Panther
4. The Pink Panther Strikes Again
5. Revenge Of The Pink Panther
6. Trail Of The Pink Panther
7. Curse Of The Pink Panther
8. Son Of The Pink Panther
Shot in the Dark
(you left out Inspector Clouseau from 1968, but with good reason)
The Birth of the Pink Panther, yeah alot of other movies and franchises have been screwed up bad, lets keep up with this one. Son of was already enough. I dont like the course this new film is taking.
Blake Edwards is still alive!! Get him involved some where!! Herbert Lom is still alive!! Bring him in!! And the dude that played Cato is still alive!
Christopher Plummer is still making movies!! Get him in somewhere. Even Robert Wagner!!
Yes, Herbert Lom IS still alive.
He'll be 89 in September.
What would be the theme of the next Pink Panther film? - Clouseau goes to Dreyfuss's old age home, stumbles into Herbert Lom's wheelchair, and they fall to the floor??
Hilarious.
I like Pink Panther Strikes Again. I love the begining with "Out with ze bad air, in wit ze good." and the scene where he tries to get in the castle and falls into the water multiple times.
The Real Deal with Bill McNeal.
That's funny scene and the dentist scene is also really funny.
I think that my favourite is Revenge and A shot in the dark.
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Well, this would be a difficult question to answer. though I would probably say "shot in the dark", i think that it is important to remember that the original pink panther is a different movie than the others. The sequels are more centered around "a shot in the dark", in my opinion, than around the pink panther. The pink panther is more of a satire of movies like "charade" and the likes. It is sort of a "What if you took charade...and added peter sellers acting like an idiot?" of course niven and the crew of thieves add a little bit more humor than the heist movies normally did...but that just added to it a great deal. Also,if you'll notice, David Niven was more of the protagonist of the movie than sellers was...so all in all, i refer to it more as a precursor to the movies than an actual part of the cluseau series.
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1: Return of
2. shot in the dark/strikes again
3. The pink panther (Just love "It had better be tonight"
4. Revenge
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My order of preference,
1. The Pink Panther Strikes Again
2. The Return of the Pink Panther
3. The Pink Panther
4. A Shot in the Dark
5. Revenge of the Pink Panther
6. Trail of the Pink Panther
It's hard for me to choose between Strikes Again and Return for the 1 and 2 spots, but Strikes Again makes more fun of Clouseau's accent so that's how I chose. I completely agree with the post about Return's beautiful scenery and The Pink Panther's early-'60s flavor. Of course I also love Mancini's music!
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Of the "Inspector Closeau" films I would say The Return Of The Pink Panther. My favorite is The Pink Panther, but as was previously mentioned it is a different style of movie than the others. It is a David Niven film with Sellers playing a supporting role. I like slapstick but prefer more subtle satire so The Pink Panther is more my cup of tea. I really like the original performance of Closeau as a somewhat clumsy detective rather than a bumbling buffoon.
share1. Pink Panther Strikes Again - This is not only my fav of the PP films, but my favorite screen comedy ever, including "Sideways" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." Dreyfus is amazing, and the rest of the cast is terrific. I think Lesley-Anne Down is the most gorgeous spy never to appear in a Bond film, and Tom Jones' "Come To Me" should be on everyone's honeymoon playlist. I could go on and on about this great film.
2. Return Of The Pink Panther - This film comes in a bellBOY but comes out a bellMAN. The best title sequence, the best cold opening (with Clouseau, the organ grinder, and the bank robber who drops his money bag), and some fine ambience around Sir Charles' pool which breathes upper-class 70s sun-dappled luxury to me. The negative is Catherine Schell, and her annoying giggling, but at least she seems to have cooked Simone's goose in Sir Charles' life, and brings out the Guy Gidot in Clouseau.
3. Shot In The Dark - It's not really a Pink Panther movie, but another farce with Clouseau beamed in. Still, it started the series proper, has Sellers' best performance, and a plot that holds together. It's actually better than the "Return" though not as good as "Strikes Again," but since this list is my favorite Panther films, I have to put it second, because I do enjoy it so, and my top three Panthers are all classics in my book on a par with the best of Hitchcock, Abbott & Costello, Errol Flynn, etc.
4. Pink Panther - It doesn't have a lot to do with the rest of the series, and the handling of the Clouseau character is not apt. But Mancini's score is the best in the series (I like the title song's arrangement on "Return" better, but there's nothing else in the series quite like "It Had Better Be Tonight.") Claudia Cardinale isn't all that bad to look at, either. If they had thought up a better ending that didn't leave the inspector so high and dry, this would have been a classic, too, despite its slow start.
5. Revenge Of The Pink Panther - Just a long, sad dropoff from the rest of the series, with no excuse since Sellers was still alive and in good form, making "Being There" a year later. Dyan Cannon and Robert Webber are terrible as the romantic interest and the villain, respectively, and the handling of Cato and Dreyfus throughout screams desperation. There's a couple of good laughs and a lot of tedium in this one for me. It's almost as bad as "Trail Of The Pink Panther") except of course, there never was such a film (There never was a "Trail Of The Pink Panther," there never was a "Trail Of The Pink Panther," there never was a "Trail Of The Pink Panther"... well, it almost worked for Dreyfus...)