For the first time I am going to be critical of a Pink Panther film. There are several films of the franchise that were made in between the Peter Sellers films which didn't have any of the original cast in them and aren't particularly well known. Some of the plot goes missing between this film and the last one reviewed on the blog, however, the continuity issues are the same as Dreyfus managed to completely obliterate himself using a vanishing machine so his constant presence in this film is a little confusing. At most this guy would be invisible and there is no explanation as to how he managed to gain his body back. I love the character of Dreyfus and I feel that he adds a lot as a regular enemy but this time they have brought back someone who was long gone.
My other criticism of this film is that it is not as funny as the others have been. Every other film has made me laugh a lot but this one didn't. There were moments when they could have and moments where you could see it coming before it happened but there wasn't anything that actually made me really laugh in the same way that some of the Cato moments did in the previous film. I also marvel at how he manages to continually buy a bed that seems to be made out of paper and breaks every time that he has a fight with someone. That takes some serious skill and stupidity. I am amazed that Peter Sellers continued with this franchise for that long and managed to keep finding stupid things to do that weren't obviously stupid or out of character. Overall it is a good enough film but the other ones were better and it doesn't make you particularly excited to watch the last film in the box set.
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