Sellers, absolute pure comic genius - period - I remember as a kid my Dad and I watching this and my Dad was on floor laughing so hard - Sellers was Inspector Clouseau - he absolutely owned this role!!
20 years ago I saw this first with my brother late in the night on star movies ...I was 15 , he was 10...and we both laughed our heads off when the series played every saturday ...today both of us hold jobs thousands of miles far from each other...but I now have my 5 year old son sitting on my lap, giggling hysterically...daddy play it again ! play it again !
Man, some stuff is just timeless. I saw this when it first came out in the 70s, and I swear, I had to hold on to the armrests in that Cinema to stop myself falling off from laughing. The young 'uns get it too because it's a simple set-up and the rest is just Peter Sellers and his comic timing. All-time classic. :)
6 years later, I read your comment to tell you... this clip is a bonding laughing ritual with my 4 yr old great nephew. He runs into my room demanding I play Pink Panther Castle. Then we sit and laugh and "play it again". It's the best. This has been going on for about a year and a half!
@@rosebud3595 May you enjoy countless more moments with him and keep good health for many more years to come. Today my 5 year old is a little over 10...he has a 7 year old sister too :-) Bonding time however is turning into an increasingly luxurious commodity....
@@lookerseeker79 Thank you so much for your comment and sharing your joy :) May you also enjoy good health, laughter and blessings throughout the years. I sooo related with your comment as little Julian and I giggled with glee! I keep telling him not to grow up too fast. Who knows, maybe he will pass it on?!!
There are two scenes - of a very different kind - that I watch when I want to change my lousy mood: - this scene where Sellers tries to cross the mote to get into the castle; - the Monty Python scene "Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition". Both make me forget that I'm actually in a bad mood. 😂😂😂
My mother has been very ill for years. When i was a kid, we used to watch Pink Panther a lot. This scene is one of the very few things that still gets her roaring with laughter.
Many top nodge comedy movies have been made since the early silent film days, but this scene is without question in the top 20, featuring classic, deliberately crafted gags any age and culture does understand, with visual comedy based on simple ideas, serious acting skills and marvellous timing+editing, perfectly finished by the score. In fact, it's done more like a cartoon.
Did you ever see the movie Being There? I think that's what it's called. Brilliant movie. The Party was also a movie that could never be made now, but was one of the funniest movies ever made. Peter Sellers was a genius
@@jimf1964 The Party is great despite the offensiveness of Sellers character. The Great Race is another great movie directed by Blake Edwards and Dr. Strangelove is another great Peter Sellers movie.
Jared Griffiths Yes, as I said, The Party was a hilarious movie. And the offensiveness is in the eye of the beholder. You could just as easily look at it as someone from a totally different culture, totally out of his element, getting into silly situations. It's not as bad as the snowflakes think. I never heard of The great race. I'll look into it.
I think "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" is the only Pink Panther movie I've seen entirely, and it combines everything I'd love about the series, from the animated opening titles, to "Does Your Dog Bite?", to fantastic scenes like this one, along with the great music here.
All of these people that create the show it is so so funny you guys took this thing to a level that’s never been matched to this day. I think you’re fantastic.
Watching Peter Sellers aka Inspector Clousseau reminds me very much of the Wyle E. Coyote trying to catch the Road Runner ❗ Grew up.watching & enjoying Peter Sellers antics since I wss a kid in 1973, for 50 years he has brightened my life by watching him whenever I go through a bout of depression 😢 😕 😞 😀
Sellers was a master of subtlety. The little things, like leaving just a few leaves on the pole he uses to vault over the moat. And his expression at the end of the canoe scene, like even he can't believe it. RE "Swine Meaut": In the 50's Sellers was part of a radio team called "The Goons". One of his characters was named "Bluebottle". His catch phrase motif was "You rotten swine, you!", which always produced big applause.
Young people should know that this was huge in 1976. That comedy that just perfect for the times. Every body at school including the teachers were talking about this movie for weeks.
No comedic dialogue or anything so complicated or nuanced as irony or satire or parody or surrealist non-sequitur absurdity - just slapstick. Might get stale and somewhat formulaic if that's all that there is.
not every mancini i like, but he has many, to me hes 1 of best films, ads, suit kids to adults, instant melody with many styles composer of all time, not easy im sure
This is my favourite sequence in this film and it is my favourite film in the series. I really love the music. Michael Robbins from On the Buses is in this film he plays the butler.
the munich beer fest scene, the russian agent that thought he was the handsome Iranian or Egyptian guy that had made love to her... So fun at the theaters back then when they came out. I was 21
Sellers was incredible, he was the Beethoven of comedy. There was nothing he couldn't do, he could make you laugh just talking, using facial expressions and voices and accents. He was a gifted, one of a kind physical comedian and in this scene he pulls just about all of his talents together to create a classic scene. The music also ingeniously adds something that I can't even describe! I have showed this scene to my two sons many times over the years and used it as a lesson to demonstrate the meaning of what it means to be 'undeterred'. lol
RIP dad and Peter Sellers. I hope you both up there are having a martini. This is our favorite Pink Panther film. This scene and, that is not my dog scene. We would laugh at the inspector Clouseau posing as a dentist pulling out the wrong tooth of the commissioner. All of the world's top assassins trying to kill Clouseau . List is endless. Such a classic film.
