Curse Of The Pink Panther (1983)

With famed detective Jacques Clouseau still missing, the French president orders Clouseau's nemesis Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) to find him! Having no such intention, he hires the world's worst detective, a New York cop (Ted Wass). Directed by Blake Edwards (VICTOR VICTORIA). Determined to squeeze every cent out of the PINK PANTHER franchise after the death of Peter Sellers (the original Clouseau), director Edwards and United Artists whipped up two movies. The first TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER used deleted footage and clips featuring Peter Sellers. This one substitutes Ted Wass as a bumbling policeman looking for the bumbling Clouseau. Wass is no Peter Sellers and the movie stinks! I only laughed once when Wass was sitting with a rubber goose between his legs. It's just such a sad, sad movie and I couldn't help feel sorry for David Niven, Robert Wagner and Capucine (the stars of the original PINK PANTHER movie) returning to the scene of one of their best films and getting this drek. The original PINK PANTHER is one of my two or three favorite comedies and this is just not funny in any way shape or form. With Roger Moore, Burt Kwouk (returning as Cato), Joanna Lumley, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman and Leslie Ash.