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The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Inspector Clouseau is, yous will think, the world'due south almost incompetent detective. Simply at least in the past he has been assigned to fairly unimportant cases -- such as the one involving the theft of the globe'due south nearly precious precious stone. In "The Pink Panther Strikes Once again," he finds himself up against a slightly more hard case. The United nations building has disappeared from the face of the Globe, and now a madman has gone on telly to announce that all England volition be next. No more warm beer, no more Picadilly Circus...

Clouseau is assigned to the case. Well, non exactly assigned; it's just that he exudes an ill-fated magnetism for trouble of this sort. Conspirators and spies and mysterious immature women have a style of gathering around him, commonly while he is involved in the written report of something totally insignificant, such equally the operation of a light switch. This time, Clouseau'southward on a globe scale: His sometime rival in the Paris police force (Herbert Lom) has taken over a Transylvanian castle, installed a mad scientist and announced that he will destroy the globe ... unless Clouseau is eliminated.

Clouseau'south investigation involves the usual variety of sight gags -- some inspired, some but borrowed -- that Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards have been supplying in the Pink Panther series for, believe it or not, nearly 15 years. Some are among their best moments, as when Clouseau, working out on the parallel confined in the gymnasium of an English country home, flips himself the wrong way and falls down a flying of stairs into the drawing room. He is, as always, unflappable: The suspects have been assembled there, and he proceeds to question them.

There is also the business of getting beyond a moat and into Herbert Lom'south gothic castle. Clouseau tries, and fails, at every possible means of attack, including canoes, vaulting poles and catapults. There's an earnest desperation in a lot of Peter Sellers' physical humour here that's appealing: Nosotros laugh, but he's not in on the joke. He simply wants very much to become across that moat. And he finally succeeds, in a nice companion piece to the teeth-drilling scenes in "Marathon Man," by disguising himself every bit the hamlet dentist and recklessly going after Herbert Lom'south teeth. They're both featherbrained with laughing gas at the time, and and so Lom doesn't even especially care.

If I'm less than totally enthusiastic near "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again," maybe information technology was because I've been over this basis with Clouseau many times before. This is the fifth Clouseau film, and the fourth starring Sellers (Alan Arkin had the lead in "Inspector Clouseau"). When last year's "The Render of the Pinkish Panther" was released, Sellers and Blake Edwards said it would be the last of the serial. Just it went on to become the largest grossing comedy of all time, and so I suppose withal another sequel was required.

There has to come a fourth dimension, though, when inspiration gives way to habit, and I recollect the "Pink Panther" serial is but well-nigh at that signal. That'southward not to say this film isn't funny -- it has moments as practiced as anything Sellers and Edwards accept ever done -- just that it'due south time for them to move on. They worked together once on the funniest movie either ane has always done, "The Party." At present it's time to attempt something new once again.