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Curse of the Pink Panther was released just after Trail of the Pink Panther with a script that has someone looking for the inept Inspector Clousseau and the fabulous stolen Pink Panther diamond at the... read more read more... same time. In Curse, Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) is a New York retread of the bumbling Inspector, chosen to look for him by Clousseau's former boss because Sleigh most certainly will never find him. Although peppered with a few inventive stunts, Curse still falls short of the Sellers classics. In a bizarre side note, David Niven was himself terminally ill at the time of his appearance in Trail of the Pink Panther and unable to speak adequately. His voice was dubbed in by impressionist Rich Little. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: Blake Edwards

Release Date: July 1, 1983

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DVD Release Date: January 31, 2006

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  • threefolddado
    March 22, 2008
    threefolddado
    The cameo at the end is amusing, but not worth sitting through the rest of the film for.
  • kenscheck
    March 28, 2012
    kenscheck
    Radical idea: end a film series before it becomes stale. If they had not filmed this film concurrently with Trail of the Pink Panther, I doubt they would have made this film after the critical financial failure of that film. But with it already in the can, they went ahead and r... read moreeleased it. This time instead of using alternate takes and "flashbacks" to previous films with unfunny linking material, we just have a new investigator (found by a ridiculous computer clone selection process) interviewing people (some of whom were already interviewed about Clouseau in the last film). This new guy (Ted Wass, who is awful by the way) is trying to find the missing Clouseau and Pink Panther diamond (which did get stolen again at the beginning of the previous film but that got lost in the mix of the clip show)...and it is all rather unfunny and pointless. The one good thing is the cameo of James Bond, Roger Moore, as Clouseau.
  • MovieGuruDude72
    June 5, 2010
    MovieGuruDude72
    Hollywood has this awful, awful habit of producing terrible final chapters of series. This God-awful tripe is a prime example of that behavior. Instead of letting the late, great Peter Sellers rest in peace, they talk Blake Edwards into making one final Pink Panther movie WITHOUT... read more Sellers (kind of what they did with the Steve Martin remakes a few years ago). What's worse is that they cast this utter buffoon (Ted Wass) to play Clouseau's replacement (who isn't funny in the least bit) and then end the original Pink Panther film storyline with Clouseau apparently turning into a thief himself and turning his back on the law he fought to uphold for so many years. WTF???!!!! The movie ends with the original Pink Panther thief, David Niven, getting away scot-free. My intelligence and my movie-watching psyche were both severely insulted with this mess and I felt this was a slap in the face to the memory of all of Sellers' great Pink Panther films.

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Charles Cassady
December 14, 2010
Charles Cassady, Common Sense Media

One of the weaker entries in the series. Full Review

Christopher Null
January 27, 2006
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

there's more to Clouseau than just making a mess of things Full Review

Stefan Birgir Stefansson
April 16, 2005
Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

may God have mercy on Blake's soul

Steve Crum
October 30, 2004
Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan

The curse is the absence of Peter Sellers. Poor Niven is dubbed.

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
March 27, 2004
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

The magic is gone without Peter Sellers.

Widgett Walls
November 5, 2002
Widgett Walls, Needcoffee.com

There's a special corner of hell reserved for people who try to do Clouseau without Sellers.

Jeffrey Westhoff
October 17, 2002
Jeffrey Westhoff, Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Yeah, I know. But I fell out of my seat laughing at the ending.

Karina Montgomery
August 15, 2002
Karina Montgomery, Cinerina

Just not the same

Scott Weinberg
July 25, 2002
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

Yes, because we all know that the American equivalent to Peter Sellers is ... Ted Wass.

March 26, 2009
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