Review of The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) by Corey N — 25 Jan 2011

Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus is nearly set to be released from a mental hospital after being cleared. However, a visit from current Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau resurrects his insanity, and he is denied leaving.

Determined to take out Clouseau once and for all, he escapes and blows up Clouseau's apartment, but fails to kill Clouseau. As a back-up plan, he abducts a famous scientist in order to build a Doomsday Machine which vaporises whatever it shoots.

Dreyfus threatens to use it unless Clouseau is exterminated, so reluctantly, 26 countries send their top assassin to kill the Chief Inspector. His clumsiness saves him again, and the assassin's attempts kill each other.

In a conquest to save the world, Clouseau heads out to put an end to Dreyfus's terror once and for all....

A great entry into the series and it still feels as fresh and as funny, as when I first saw it a long time ago.

It's not big, it's not clever, it's just full of silly jokes that you can see coming a mile off. but this makes it all the more funny.

Sellers is fantastic as Clouseau and really knows his physical comedy.

Some of the set pieces are hilarious, such as the Oktoberfest scene where all the assassins are after Clouseau and kill each other.

Not a film to be taken seriously at all, but laugh out loud all the way.