Best Pink Panther movie
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — A Shot in the Dark
BigEmpty — 20 years ago(July 27, 2005 08:11 AM)
I've seen most, if not all of the PP movies. But I get confused by the titles. Revenge, Return, etc. And some of them is not as funny. I wasnt sure if it is Revenge or Return.
So, can you put down the funny titles and the not funny. I wanted to purchase the funny ones only.
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Norse_Sage — 20 years ago(August 04, 2005 12:09 PM)
Opinions are divided on the subject.
In my opinion, you should get all the five Sellers movies, but if you must choose the best of those, I would go for:
A shot in the dark
Return of the Pink panther
The Pink panther Strikes Again
Stayr clear of all non-Sellers Panthers!
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kuringai-1 — 20 years ago(February 11, 2006 03:25 PM)
I think A Shot in the Dark.
I agree with the above poster on The Pink Panther, it spent too much time on Sir Charles.
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Crispin-3 — 20 years ago(February 18, 2006 01:17 AM)
A Shot in the Dark is definitely the best for me. When fans quote a favourite Clouseau line e.g. 'Are there "meuths" in your closet' it's almost always from this film.
I watched the original Pink Panther (as we shall have to refer to it from now on) again tonight, and it's a good film, but "Shot" is excellent.
If you like Peter Sellers, don't miss (amongst others) the less-well-known Being There (1979), a sympathetic serious portrayal of a Gump-like character that is still wildly funny at times; and The Mouse That Roared, which features one of Sellers' trademarks: he plays multiple roles, including a woman.
Tony P
Are there "meuths" in a corner of your closet? I know there are in mine!
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antonak — 20 years ago(March 10, 2006 05:42 AM)
That's because he wasn't the focus of the movie. Don't forget, this was to be a vehicle for David Niven.
The remaining movies were simply to show Clouseau as more of a bumbler than the first one was able to show. -
tbyrd8 — 19 years ago(December 22, 2006 04:14 AM)
Isn't it ironic that the funniest Pink Panther movie is the one without "Pink Panther" in its title - or, unless I am mistaken, anywhere in the movie? The Panther certainly did not appear in the titles as he did in the original.
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adamantius — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 02:07 PM)
Yes, but perhaps not so ironic when you consider all the Frankenstein movies with no charatcer named Frankenstein, and all the movies about Nick and Nora Charles containing no Thin Man character, even though the phrase appears in virtually every entry's title
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jakeandelwood — 20 years ago(February 23, 2006 09:05 PM)
It's hard to determine for anybody else what is 'the funniest' movie of a series. Of course it depends on your sense of humor
Pink Panther Strikes Again is the one that's on the top of my list. With A Shot in the Dark close behind it. Hard even for me to determine why I prefer Revenge over Shot. I think because I really enjoy the entire 'entering the castle' sequence so much. Together with a great 'Cato fighting scene' and superb funny opening with Dreyfus and Clouseau it just tops a Shot in the Dark for me. Although it's fair to say that shot in the dark is an overall better movie. In my opinion, that is.
Third place will be Return of the Pink Panther. When I saw this one for the first time (it was the first Panther movie I ever saw) I laughed so hard about the Cato-Clouseau fight that my tummy hurted for a long time after the film was over.
Just in case you're still confused about the titles, Return of the Pink Panther is the one where the Panther Diamond is stolen and Clouseau is convinced that Sir Charles Litton (Christopher Plummer in this one) is behind it. PP Strikes again is about Dreyfuss escaping the psychiatric hospital and threatening the world with a doom device. In this one several hitman try to kill Clouseau during the Munich Octoberfest before Clouseau finds the hiding place of Dreyfuss (a castle).
Now I own the Panther DVD box which I bought in combination with Return of the Pink Panther and I just ordered the other movies to complete the series (Curse, Son and Inspector Clouseau). Still I advise you to stay away from the non-Sellers movies. Even the Pink Panther movies that aren't great at least have some hillarious moments of Sellers as Clouseau. And please do not believe people that tell you that the 'new' Pink Panther movie is in any way 'true' to the old movies. You have to be a Steve Martin fan to appreciate that specific one and I understand that even some of the biggest Martin fans have a hard time with it (that is, some of the people I know and are Martin fans). I just thought it was god awfull, like Son and Curse of the Pink Panther -
TheRetroCritic — 20 years ago(February 27, 2006 04:51 AM)
For me, A Shot in the Dark is definitely the best one. However, the funniest one for me is probably Revenge of the Pink Panther, the one where Dreyfuss becomes totally insane and holds the world ransom. I must have seen it a billion times. All the PP films are worth seeing though. Except the 2 crappy ones without Sellers and the Son of the PP
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