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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe picture is filled with one sight gag after another, many familiar to anyone old enough to remember the glory days of silent comedy.
- 80The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe whole thing is colorful, gay — and Henry Mancini's music is as sassy and frivolous as the film.
- Elke Sommer is good as the devious maid Maria Gambrelli but it is Sellers who steals the show as the inept detective fumbling and bumbling his way around solving murder mysteries.
- 60Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThis isn't quite up to the original, but it has its moments, as Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) sets out to solve a murder in an English country house.
- 40IGNIGNUltimately, A Shot in the Dark is not superior to The Pink Panther, as many have suggested, but a somewhat predictably derivative sequel that maintains its predecessor's form but not substance.