Trail of the Pink Panther

Movie review by Charles Cassady Jr., Common Sense Media
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Common Sense says

age 12+

Weak link in brilliant series has gratuitious nude scene.

PG 1982 92 minutes
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Parents say

age 14+

Based on 2 reviews

Kids say

age 11+

Based on 6 reviews

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A Lot or a Little?

The parents' guide to what's in this movie.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie has a salacious scene of nude young women (why nude? your guess is as good as ours) stomping grapes at a vineyard. Also scattered profanity (in French and English), previously unknown in this series. A scene of attempted suicide (by a young Clouseau) is played for laughs.

Community Reviews

Jackandeoin
Jackandeoin Adult
August 24, 2019
age 11+

Peter Sellers has done it again!

One of the movies where you just get a laugh out of it! Trail of the pink panther is the last pink panther film featuring Peter Sellers after his death. This movie is definitely not his best, and a very unnecessary scene of nudity in a vineyard twists the culture completely and made me think what were the writers thinking?

This title has:

Great role models
Too much violence
Too much sex
JulieS
JulieS Adult
July 27, 2010
age 17+

Nudity

Fine movie, but was appaled by the topless women in the vineyard. Not just a quick peek, but some time spent on them romping about topless.

This title has:

Too much sex
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What's the Story?

After Peter Sellers died in 1980, director Blake Edwards announced he had enough outtakes and unused Sellers material to concoct new Pink Panther comedy starring the comic genius. Once again the sacred Pink Panther diamond is stolen. The mythical Mideast country of Lugash sends a demand to Paris for Clouseau to recover it. A handful of scenes -- some very funny, some overbearing -- show Sellers' Inspector Clouseau visiting his favorite disguise shop, starting fires in his office, checking into (and wrecking) a hotel, and getting stuck in an airline toilet while bandaged head to foot. Then, news comes that Clouseau's plane has disappeared. A chic French TV reporter, Marie (Joanna Lumley), starts interviewing everyone who knew Clouseau, including characters from earlier movies, like the aristocratic burglar Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven).

Is It Any Good?

TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER is a strange, mutant tribute/exploitation of the movie. Kids who are undiscriminating may laugh a few times. Edwards meant well, but it just doesn't work.

The cast reunion mainly provides an excuse to show plentiful excerpts from the previous films in the series. This is a sort of thing that long-running TV series do occasionally when they get lazy, the dreaded "clip show." The question of who has stolen the Pink Panther diamond is simply dropped, and the clips more than anything remind us that Peter Sellers wasn't really around for this production at all.

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