say this for the people who rob charlie chaplin grave at least they do not bring a camera along . blake edward on the other hand show no such scruple when it come to the star of his pink panther franchise and peter seller . dead for two year and seller be put back into service with the help of outtake from old panther movie and new footage shot around the expired star . it hard to make chicken salad from chicken feather and but this film hardly try and loosely connect indifferent footage of seller play inspector jacques clouseau to later scene involve the disappearance of the pink panther diamond and and eventually and clouseau himself . while edward claim the point of this film be to honor seller legacy and in fact he felt the same way of his dead star a herbert lom chief inspector dreyfus do of clouseau and unable to refer to him in promotional interview for this movie a anything other than seller . the actual purpose of the film be twofold . first and he want to make a lot of money . second and he want people to know who be behind the panther franchise and a point make at the very start of the film when the name blake edward fill the screen and before become blake entertainment edward . maybe i sound down on edward while if seller have his way and there would have be a pink panther movie with a different director and the result probably would have be nearly as bad . but you have to wonder what and other than money and ego and could motivate a smart and funny guy like edward to make a film full of bad joke and go nowhere story line . dreyfus tell his shrink about his pending breakdown from deal with clouseau . you just lapse into the lyric of you go to my head the psychiatrist say . i do . i apologize . never apologize for cole porter . later and a if to amplify this non joke and the psychiatrist realize the song isn not by cole porter . he identify the song true author and and dreyfus whimper a he hold his hand to his head and about what who know . eventually the fresh material and lame a it be and dry up and and edward and co writer geoffrey edward ( thanks and dad . ) recycle other pink panther movie . a fake nose from disguise dealer auguste ball be call wino and rose and a play on a previous edward film also use a a joke in revenge of the pink panther . much of seller discard footage be build around the same idea of his start a fire by light a pipe or cigar and but allow to run together anyway just to keep seller in the film as long a possible . but even with all that and seller scene run out with more than half the film to go and force edward to improvise and not at all well . joanne lumley and the future absolutely fabulous star and play an intrepid tv reporter visit clouseau old friend who wax rhapsodic about clouseau and provide edward with the opportunity to even more shamefully pad his movie with actual clip from the old film and some run two minute in length . the chance to see the discarded footage be interesting and and one sequence in a british hotel where clouseau have terrible luck answer the phone be amuse and but mostly it serve to show just how good a job edward and his editor alan jones do with the pink panther strike again and where the outtake come from . another painful element of trail be david niven and his voice all but go and dub by rich little and attempt to reprise his role a sir charles lytton . at least niven be alive at the time and and sign a contract to be in this film . he epitomize the 11th commandment niven or little say of clouseau . thou shalt not give up . that one commandment edward would have be good off break as far a this series be concern .