This is my favorite Pink Panther movie i've seen. Peter Sellers as usual is hilarious in his performance as Inspector Clouseau. Christopher Plummer is also great as Sir Charles Lytton. After the Pink Panther diamond is stolen, Inspector Jacues Clouseau(Peter Sellers) is assigned to catch the thief. Because of the P glove he believes it to be Sir Charles Lytton AKA "the Phantom"(Christopher Plummer). It turns out not to be him but his wife Lady Claudine Lytton(Catherine Schell). In order not to be caught Charles Lytton goes to the fictional Lugash to apprehend the thief, while Clouseau is in Switzerland trying to find out where he is. Meanwhile, Clouseau's enraged boss Charles Dreyfuss(Herbert Lom) is also in Switzerland trying to eliminate Closeau. In the end Charles Lytton finds his wife with the diamond, Closeau finds it, and Dreyfuss tries to kill everyone! It took me quite a couple of times to finally understand the plot of this movie. Anyways all in all it's a funny movie so go check it out!

like the the two Pink Panther films i have watched before this one,i found this installment to be mostly boring and slow.i just didn't find any of the antics of Clouseau to be funny.they just didn't resonate with me for whatever reason .and whenever Clouseau put on his extra silly thick accent,it did not elicit one one iota of a chuckle from me.however,for some strange reason,i found the last 25 minutes or so fairly interesting and even a bit amusing.i even laughed out loud once.the one bright spot in the whole movie was Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton.but at 112 minutes,this movie was a bit long in my opinion,and could have benefited from having some scenes culled. 4/10

This is perhaps the best of the Pink Panther series of films ever made as Peter Sellers reprised the role of the bungling french detective of the Surette after an absence of ten years and surely was the beginning of what should have been the somewhat short-lived and fully fledged versions of these movies while the earlier two films to feature Sellers' as Clouseau, weren't all that funny. Christopher Plummer was an excellent choice as a replacement for David Niven as Charles Litton having already starred in major films like The Sound of Music although Niven reprised the role in the first posthumous "pink" movie. Blake Edwards over-directed this one and there are lots of slow motion gags throughout the film's length and is helped by some of the usually funny dialogues and disaster after disaster for the Frenchman. It is a great shame that these were cut short by the premature death of Sellers and despite his comic abilities and ideas, it became a different matter off-screen.

With both their careers in somewhat decline, director Blake Edwards and actor Peter Sellers decided to team up again for another Pink Panther movie despite their love/hate relationship off screen. Also returning were Herbert Lom (now Chief Inspector Dreyfus), Andre Maranne (Francois), Burt Kwouk (Cato), and Graham Stark in a different role as snitch Pepi. And Frank Waldman, who previously co-wrote with brother Tom the non-Sellers-Edwards movie Inspector Clouseau, was Edwards' writing partner for this and the next series entry. And once again, Henry Mancini provides the score which returns the "Pink Panther" theme to the animated opening credits. Joining them were Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton (replacing David Niven) and Catherine Schell as Lady Claudine Litton. With an 11-year gap between A Shot in the Dark and this, both Edwards and Sellers seemed to only improve in their collaboration of mining their talents in getting the surefire gags milked for all they're worth. And Lom, especially, is a hoot as the superior of Clouseau who gets more mentally mad every time he fails to kill him. While admittedly, Ms. Schell is a little distracting whenever she noticeably laughs at Sellers' antics, she's also at her most charming during these scenes and besides, her beautiful face makes those scenes worth it. And the way Cato surprises Clouseau are quite hilarious especially when Edwards uses slow motion. If anything slows the film down, it's the Charles Litton sequences which are the more dramatic parts of the picture. Still, even those scenes provide some humor whenever Stark as Pepi has his fingers constantly hurt by either Charles or someone else. And for the first time, The Pink Panther and The Inspector are teamed in the beginning animated credit sequence to humorous effect with Pink imitating some movie stars while The Inspector chases him. That sequence, by the way, is by Richard Williams Studio with help from Chuck Jones' animator Ken Harris. So on that note, I highly recommend The Return of the Pink Panther. P.S. Monty Python supporting player Carol Cleveland has a cameo as a Swimming Pool Diver who dives as Clouseau falls backwards into the pool. Next up, The Pink Panther Strikes Again...