In 1976 this was the newest, though not the pinkest Pink Panther movie. The fourth movie in the Pink Panther series is mainly a showcase for Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom. They're both like a middle aged Laurel and Hardy without the physical dissimilarities. It's generally funny in parts: Sellers dressed up as Quasimodo then floating out a window while on the phone, going to a gay bar and being sung to and hit on by a drag queen, but the gags and slapstick get old and the movie lags after an hour and it becomes apparent the slapstick routines make up for the lack of any story; no point of the movie being made besides a repeated formula had made hit movies before. Omar Sharif makes a brief cameo as an assassin, he had the lead alongside director Blake Edwards's wife Julie Andrews in "The Tamarind Seed" [1974], and Lesley Anne-Down shows up as a Russian defector trying to seduce Clouseau, which is weird and icky because she looks like teenager. Two years later Peter Sellers would play Clouseau for a fifth and final time in "Revenge of the Pink Panther" [1978] which is on my list of movies to watch mainly because Dyan Cannon is in it.
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