"Does your dog bite?" (Inspector Clouseau)
"No" (Shop keep)
Dog bites Clouseau.
"I thought you said your dog did not bite." (Clouseau)
"That is not my dog." (Shop keep)
" And third, that my hand is on fire." (Clouseau)
I thought for my what I assume is my 101st post, I would watch yet another Pink Panther. Undoubtedly this one is the silliest of the lot. So, naturally, I find it amazing. (It could also be that my parents had a bootleg copy of this movie that I watched many times as a child.) It's a Pink Panther so of course everyone should watch it. Is it a ground breaking and historic movie of merit? No. But, it does have Kato, a fabulous hunchback costume, Dreyfus and his dooms day device, the hideous screws on a chalkboard torture, that unnecessarily silly attractive Russian assassin, an Octoberfest full of ridiculous killers, and,of course, The Pink Panther song.
Ratings:
Comedic gaggers: see it
Simpsons writers: you had to have seen it. (I hope all the gags of Clouseau trying to get across the most made their way into episodes.)
Accenters: a must
Costumed Assassins: see it
Hunchbacks: ok you might want to skip this one.
On a scale of 1 hour in Helsinki to 12 hours in Helsinki, I give The Pink Panther Strikes Again 3.4 out of 5 stars.
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