Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
Back to basics and rather tired, a bit like the John Major Government Return of the Pink Panther marks Peter Sellers' last complete performance as Inspector Clouseau and to me the cracks are starting to show a bit here. The humour is a bit too repetitive and rather lazy in places. Equally, as this follows The Pink Panther Strikes Again the series doesn't feel like it has a lot of room to escalate. The plot is simple, a gang attempts to assassinate Inspector Clouseau, Clouseau attempts to find out who did it. I dare say the plot is perhaps a bit too simple for it's own good. Part of the problem is we know who did it from the start and there isn't a lot of room for Clouseau to do a lot of investigating but plenty of room for infiltration. Focusing on the infiltration too means we get a lot more focus on the silly disguises. I don't mind having the disguises as a passing gag, but their ubiquity in Revenge of the Pink Panther gets to the point where such gags feel quite laboured.
