For me this is the last of the Pink Panther films, and it has always been a lot of fun for me. Yes, it is not as good as The Pink Panther Strikes Again or A Shot in the Dark(both my personal favs), but this is third for me. Clouseau is back. Dreyfuss is back. Kato is back, and Blake Edwards and Henry Mancini as well. While I agree that some of the humor is a bit forced and it does looked rushed, there are some really good things about the film. Sellers is still in top-notch form whether he is dressed as Toulouse Latrec singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" or as a salty Swedish sea captain with an inflatable parrot on his shoulder or as a rotund "Godfather" gangster type with padding in his mouth and him fist pumping wildly. He is funny. PERIOD. Herbert Lom is not good. He is great. He makes these films as Chief Inspector Drefuss. The scene where he has to give Clouseau a eulogy is priceless. He was so good in that scene. Oddly enough my favorite scene in the whole film is near the end where Clouseau, dressed in his gangster garb, is running from Drefuss who is shooting frantically at him. Clouseau says something to the effect that it is, he,Clouseau, and Drefuss, stammering, eye rolling, says, "I know." Great stuff. Burt Kwouk is always good as are many of the character actors and though Dyan Cannon and Robert Webber are a little less than believable as French folk, they are decent enough. While the story in this one is a bit jumpy, the whole thing is brought together by Edwards funny direction and attention to comedic detail and, for me most importantly, Mancini's score which is one of his finest in the series. All of his music carries the film where it may have other-wised dragged.

The Pink Panther series, as with many such outstanding comedy formulae, hit a peak and went into inevitable decline. The characters and the way they played off each other could always be relied upon to unleash a wild stream of gags, but the trouble is there wasn't enough flexibility in the format, and without novel situations each new movie began to resemble the last.Just as the previous picture (The Pink Panther Strikes Again) spoofs the James Bond franchise, Revenge of the Pink Panther takes off the gangster movies of the decade. It is a little heavier on plot than most Pink Panther pictures, and perhaps a little haphazard in its construction (numerous outtakes would later make up a large chunk of the follow-up, Trail of the Pink Panther). The jokes do not come quite so thick and fast as they used to, which is a shame because director Blake Edwards only really thrived on the slapstick comedy. Thankfully this is still of a high calibre, and there are some great examples of those trademark exaggerated gags, such as the assassin tripping on a baton then falling through several floors. A pratfall is never just a pratfall in an Edwards comedy.But altogether the comedy is on smaller scale than it was in the previous picture, which on the plus side allows for more business from main man Peter Sellers. The story here focuses a lot on Clouseau's mastery of disguises, giving several opportunities for Sellers to try out different comedy mannerisms. The Swedish seadog routine is one of the funniest scenes of any Panther movie. Sellers still had his brilliance at timing and silly voices, although his energy and enthusiasm were clearly beginning to wane.Sellers passed away before another Pink Panther movie could be made. However, as Trail of the Pink Panther and Son of the Pink Panther showed, the flogging of this dead horse continued even after the literal death of the star, a star without whom the series could not have existed in the first place. Still, while far from perfect Revenge of the Pink Panther gives us a final opportunity to see him in one of his greatest roles, before the series really started to turn bad

In Inspector Clouseau Peter Sellers created one of the greatest comedy characters and he and Blake Edwards reunite for a fifth Pink Panther film featuring the inept Frenchman.After Return and Strikes again the Pink Panther series began to falter at this point as the character of Clouseau began to get more and more extreme and the plots of the film began to get more and more like a James Bond spoof with the ending in particular being totally manic.One thing that is nice about this film is that we see Clouseau walk off into the distance and this is made more poignant by the fact that we now know it would be the last time Sellers played the character. The series should have ended while it was still pretty much at the top of it's game rather than being followed up by the trilogy of films Edwards made in order to try to revitalise the franchise after Seller's death.

although i don't think this is the funniest of the series i have watched up to this point(#5),i do think it is the most entertaining,and the most well paced.this one isn't boring at all,and there are certainly some amusing moments,especially when Clouseau is in some of his 'disguises',and most of the scenes with Cato.the story is interesting enough and former Chief Inspector Dreyfus is brought back in a way that makes sense and fits in well with the story.Burt Kwouk returns as Cato returns,obviously ,but i wish his role had been more substantial.though,like i mentioned,his scenes were funny. all in,a pretty good entry in the Peter Sellers cannon of Pink Panther films.for me,Revenge of the Pink Panther is a 6/10