Curse of the Pink Panther

Mediocre & redundant, mildly redeemed by some reasonably good direction from Edwards and a wonderful climactic cameo. I sometimes laughed & I wasn't bored; Wass is a hopeless replacement & doesn't do the material any favours, but he's still preferable to the shoehorned collection of post-humous butchering of Seller footage that was Trail of the Pink Panther. At one point, Dreyfus says "I have a horrible feeling we're seeing history repeat itself." The irony is strong with this one.

The problem with extended gags this movie seems to rely on is that when they don't work, you are stuck with the same joke for 10-15 minutes. This bit with blow-up decoy woman date comes as an example. But sometimes it hits correct note, so it's not as bad as IMDb rating would suggest. Ted Wass has zero charisma and is no replacement for Sellers, and that's why I think people just dismiss this film altogether.

There was several replacements for Clouseau. Didn't work. Joanna Lumley wearing nothing but mud was okay.

Not the pink panther without Sellers.