Review of Revenge of the Pink Panther

"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.