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| MGM/UA Entertainment Company | Release Date: December 17, 1982 |
Starring:
Burt Kwouk, Capucine, David Niven, Graham Stark, Harvey Korman, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Peter Sellers, Richard Mulligan, Robert Loggia
Summary:
Inspector Clouseau mysteriously disappears and a journalist attempts to uncover the mystery. New scenes are interspersed with old footage of Peter Sellers from the previous films.
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Though even Blake Edwards, the director behind the Panthers, could not make the connective material in this film work well, there is so much joy in the vintage Sellers that Trail of the Pink Panther rates as one of the funniest films of this year. Sellers' outtakes are funnier than most of the new material on film today. We shall not see the like of him again soon. [21 Dec 1982, p.C7]
The Trail of the Pink Panther is less a conventional comedy than an uproarious retrospective devoted to the particular achievements of the Edwards-Sellers collaboration. Some of the routines seem totally new to me, and others are familiar, but either way, most of them are huge fun, and a couple approach greatness.
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The plot creaks along reasonably effectively and Sellers' solo sequences - the disguises, the pratfalls and the speech
mannerisms - are familiar, but fun. [18 Dec 1982]
Recommended only to moviegoers so indiscriminately fond of the Panther series and starved for belly laughs that they consider it a privilege to watch director Blake Edwards sort through his old footage and sweep up after himself. If your indulgence is less than open-ended, this lame attempt to scrape a "new" feature out of a filmmaking backlog is likely to seem more deplorable than diverting. [18 Dec 1982, p.C4]
A patchwork of out-takes, reprised clips and new connective footage, Trail of the Pink Panther is a thin, peculiar picture unsupported by the number of laughs one is accustomed to in this series. Stitched together after Peter Sellers' death, this is by a long way the slightest of the six Inspector Clouseau efforts.
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A sad spectacle: it feels like an advertisement, but what is left to sell? [27 Dec 1982, p.62]
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