SummaryInspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sergeant Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's Ameri... Read More
Directed By:Blake Edwards
Written By:Blake Edwards, Geoffrey Edwards
Curse of the Pink Panther
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This is mildly amusing, and the scenes with Niven -- his last, and reportedly dubbed by impressionist Rich Little when Niven's illness had taken the strength from his voice -- are poignant. But there is no restoring the force that made the earlier Panthers work. [12 Aug 1983, p.C5]
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Not unfunny, and not really an offense to the memory of Inspector Clouseau, it's merely a movie with very little reason to exist.
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A dispiriting attempt to wring a last gasp of mirth from an already dangerously overextended series. [22 Aug 1983, p.73]
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Edwards persists in the missing-person subterfuge in Curse while avoiding the blatant outrage of recycling old footage under false pretenses. He's shot new footage this time, but that technicality hasn't prevented it from feeling depleted and secondhand. [17 Aug 1983, p.B6]
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All that's missing are the laughs. In their place, we get wall-to-wall predictability. [13 Aug 1983]
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Maybe if it looked like Edwards cared about the movie it might have been something more. Even so, without Clouseau, what The Curse of the Pink Panther brings us is staged prop humor, and a number of indignities courtesy of the make-up and wardrobe departments.
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An aesthetically contemptible, crassly commercial work.
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Jun 5, 2022
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A complete disaster. It seems that Blake Edwards and the production team of the Pink Panther franchise didn't know when to stop and focus efforts on new projects. If the previous film was almost an insult to the memory of Peter Sellers, but still works as a tribute, this film has no reason to exist beyond the financial interest of those involved. The plot, poor and poorly written, shows Sureté's attempts to find a new chief inspector capable of replacing Clouseau, whose plane has disappeared. It turns out that the story doesn't bring anything special or interesting, and it just doesn't work, a factor that was very important for the failure of this film with the critics and the box office. Herbert Lom is back and continues to look good and committed to his role. The same can be said of Capucine and David Niven, an actor who would pass away months later. Robert Wagner does what he can and Roger Moore shines, but the rest of the cast is limited to going after the main actors without much merit. With a poor but functional cinematography, a satisfying soundtrack and a good sequence of credits, the film manages itself at the cost of the tasks that lie ahead.
Production Company:
- United Artists
- Titan Productions
- Blake Edwards
- Jewel Productions
Release Date:Aug 12, 1983
Duration:1 h 49 m
Rating:PG
Tagline:He's been bombed, blasted and plugged in the parachute ... Is this any way to welcome the World's Greatest Detective ?




























