The picture has a performance by Peter Sellers that is one of the most delicate studies in accident-proneness since the silents.

| Mar 6, 2024

It’s chic in an early-1960s kind of way.

| Apr 25, 2023

Despite the game efforts of a top cast, director Blake Edwards noticed that Sellers and his fumbling character were the true stars of the film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2021

Overlong but never boring, culminating in a spectacularly silly masquerade ball full of playful mixups and misdirection and chaos.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 27, 2020

'The Pink Panther', the first comedy in the popular Blake Edwards franchise about Inspector Clouseau, gives me a pleasant time in which at some moments I cry with laughter at the crazy farce it shows. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 8, 2020

I wouldn't have thought it possible to film an unfunny scene with ape suits.

| Mar 11, 2020

Peter Sellers' gifts for slapstick have not often been so well used (too often he is exploited as a mimic instead of as a comedian).

| Mar 11, 2020

A comedy-thriller of unusual sprightliness and style, is the credits, a sort of bonus cartoon thrown in to put you in a good mood for the rest.

| Mar 21, 2019

Alexander Fisher's sound is good. Fernando Carrere's art direction and set decoration by Reginald Allen, Jack Stevens and Arrigo Breschi provide visual elegance to enhance the gags.

| Mar 21, 2019

The first film of the popular series, in which David Niven (not Peter Sellers) is the nominal lead, introduced Mancini's pouncing score

| Original Score: B | Aug 13, 2011

Funny and entertaining after all these years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2010

The whole ensemble is played like a Stradivarius

| Mar 15, 2010

It is fun to look back and see how Peter Sellers completely stole the film from its bankable star, David Niven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2009

All the ingredients for a great evening at the movies: lively music, eye-catching scenery, larger-than-life comic set pieces, suave men and beautiful women, and odd-man-out Clouseau, played to perfection by the one and only Peter Sellers. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 6, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 30, 2008

Sellers is at the top of his game.

| Original Score: B- | May 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2005

Hilarious no matter how many times you watch it. Slapstick for the sixties.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2004

Sellers' first Clouseau trip is fun, sets pace for rest of series

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 19, 2004