Return of the Pink Panther

Saw Return of the Pink Panther. It was a passable and pleasant Peter Sellers comedy. He does his usual thing of being hilariously bumbling (there's a scene in a night club where he slurs "here's lookin' at you cuh-hid" that I think had his scene-mate genuinely laughing.) I noticed an increase in things going wrong beyond his control (there's a bathroom that disintegrates around him through no (er, well, little) fault of his own) I think he's best sewing his own discord. The actual plot is kind of boringly advanced by the jewel thief of the previous installments. There's some awkward '70s racial humor ("his little yellow skin" eh? Oh dear.) and clearly the jewel thief is supposed to be a sort of James Bond type (though not nearly as entertaining and just as pompous.) The final catastrophic set-destroying joke I saw well in advance, but it was the best part of the film just the same. Not Sellers' best work, but funny in a laff-a-minute sort of way and a pleasant way to waste two hours.