This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Seems a wobbly gangster wants to prove his worth by bumping off the indestructible Clouseau. Trouble is that's like trying to shoot Pacman.As expected, gags fly faster than a scatter gun, maybe too fast. Sight gags, verbal gaffes, innuendo, all follow one another in no particular order. Plus, movie sets by the dozen get blown up, smashed, or burned, while stunt men get a real workout-- all in fun, of course. Then too, Sellars gets to bumble along in his trademark, knee-slapping fashion. Trouble is it's hard to really get your laughs since they're so quickly followed by another gag. Here, it's not just funnyman Clouseau, but Cato and Dreyfus who also get the clown spotlight. And catch the many ethnic jokes directed Cato's way that would likely not survive today's culling. Anyway, Farrah Fawcett look-alike Dyan Cannon delivers a bouncy turn that helps elevate the familiar Clouseau shtick. It's Sellars' last turn as the hapless chief inspector (please), which has to go down as one of the best comic creations of its time, even if it's getting harder for each new series entry to top the last. Probably, it's just as well that the series ended at this point. Still, the irreplaceable Sellars is sorely missed.

"Revenge Of The Pink Panther" is unlikely to be most people's favorite entry in the Pink Panther series, but it earns its place in the collection. It's far too slack in its pacing, but there are scattered chuckles throughout, though the single funniest moment, paradoxically, does not belong to Peter Sellers but to Herbert Lom; it's the scene at Clouseau's "funeral" where Dreyfus has to read an eulogy speech for Clouseau but cannot stop laughing! In fact, one of the problems of this film is that Lom is underused - usually when he appears on the screen he sees Clouseau popping up out of nowhere and he faints. And talk about "underused": it was a genius piece of casting getting the buxom Valerie Leon as a whip-wielding dominatrix - so why did they make her part so tiny? At least the gorgeous Dyan Cannon's role is bigger, and the final 15 minutes feature some good multiple-vehicle chases & stunts in the streets of Hong Kong. **1/2 out of 4.

Look out, he's back! And that he is none other than Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau.This time everyone thinks he's dead, except that he's not.It is a transvestite who steals Clouseau's car and clothes that dies.Behind his "murder" would be a French mobster called Philippe Douvier.But Charles Dreyfus is happy for a while, thinking that fool Clouseau is finally dead.But that fool goes and captures an international drug ring in Hong Kong.Blake Edwards' The Revenge of Pink Panther (1978) is the sixth movie in the Pink Panther film series.It's the last one with Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau.He died two years later to a heart attack.The film series went on, but we never got to see The Romance of Pink Panther Sellers was working on.Luckily Herbert Lom lived on, and still does, ad was seen as Dreyfus in all the future Pink Panther movies directed by Edwards.Same thing with Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong, who attacked Sellers and kept attacking his successors.Not to forget Graham Stark as Dr. Auguste Balls with his crazy disguises.The female lead is done by Dyan Cannon, who plays Simone.Robert Webber plays Douvier.Paul Stewart is Scallini.Robert Loggia plays the part of Al Marchione.Douglas Wilmer is Police Commissioner.Henry Mancini made the recognizable music.Behind the opening credits animation was DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.This Pink Panther movie is funny, like any of these movies with Peter Sellers.It's not the funniest, but you do feel amused more than once.Like Clouseau as the mafioso.Or Cato walking blind with those thick glasses.The chasing scene moves with the speed of silent pictures.And the awarding scene, with the bird on the head...If only we got to see another Pink Panther movie with Peter Sellers.

The acting is good and there are a number of funny jokes. Unfortunately the movie does include discomfiting racial humor (arguably that was common in the late 1970's), lacks a strong plot, and there is almost no interaction between Clouseau and Dreyfus, which is what made the prior films in the series so funny.Robert Webber does a great job as the villain Douvier, also able to play everything straight in the silliness. The chase scene in Hong Kong is funny without being overlong or overdone. The last scene is nice in that the romantic moment isn't spoiled by a violent attack. If only Blake Edwards didn't try to continue the series after Sellers's death.