i believe blake edward intention with this movie be noble . i be sure it be mean a a tribute to peter seller and who pass away in 1980 and for play chief insp . jacques clouseau so greatly in the previous more successful pink panther movie . it do this by use archive footage of seller in his role a clouseau and by incorporate interview with people clouseau encounter in the previous movie . this also mean the return of david niven and robert loggia and harvey korman and graham stark and capucine and burt kwouk and andré maranne and of course herbert lom . some of them only have appear in the early of the pink panther movie and i felt that they appear in this movie because they felt they owe it to peter seller . i mean they really do not need to appear in this movie unless they really want to . after all david niven be already seriously ill at the time and also die shortly after shoot . therefor this movie can perhaps be good see a a special you would normally see on a dvd and that be pay tribute to a past away actor . however there be obviously no dvd yet in 1982 and a tv special would perhaps have be too expensive and simplistic a a tribute . i be sure blake edward want to make something special for his good old friend and at the same time also use this movie a a set up for the next sequel curse of the pink panther and which be also shoot at the same time a this movie and be therefor also feature most of the same actor . however big mistake that blade edward make be that he try to incorporate a story into this movie . this story however see get abandon again early on into the movie and a if they run out of good usable peter seller archive footage . watch this old cut archive footage also often make it obvious why it get cut from the original movie . often the sequence go on for too long and be stretch out far too much and a if seller and his fellow actor and director be merely try out some stuff to see what would work and what wouldn not and how far they could go with thing . the comedy in those sequence also often doesn not work out a intend and which explain why they never make the final cut . it also confuse to see some sequence that be obviously meant original for mainly the pink panther strike again and revenge of the pink panther incorporate into this movie a part of the story but however these different sequence obviously do not really connect with each other also because most of those sequence be basically the same and though less good and one that get eventually use in those early mentioned movie . but also the originally shot comical sequence for this movie do not really work out . peter seller be simply miss too much in this movie . blake edward try but his attempt simply weren not good enough . he try to make it work by put also new character into the movie and such a clouseau father . a failed experimental attempt by blake edward . 4/10 .