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  • 1983
  • TV-PG
  • MGM/UA Entertainment Company
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 1983
  • TV-PG
  • MGM/UA Entertainment Company
  • 1 h 49 m

Summary Inspector 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 Clousea...

Directed By: Blake Edwards

Written By: Geoffrey Edwards, Blake Edwards

  • 1983
  • TV-PG
  • MGM/UA Entertainment Company
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 1983
  • TV-PG
  • MGM/UA Entertainment Company
  • 1 h 49 m

Curse of the Pink Panther

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Inspector 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 Clousea...

Directed By: Blake Edwards

Written By: Geoffrey Edwards, Blake Edwards

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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]
By Bill Cosford FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
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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]
By David Ansen FULL REVIEW
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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]
By Gary Arnold FULL REVIEW
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All that's missing are the laughs. In their place, we get wall-to-wall predictability. [13 Aug 1983]
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
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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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Production Company United Artists, Titan Productions, Blake Edwards, Jewel Productions
Release Date Aug 12, 1983
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating TV-PG
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Tagline He's been bombed, blasted and plugged in the parachute ... Is this any way to welcome the World's Greatest Detective ?
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/curse-of-the-pink-panther.16022/
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