rather than despair about the loss of a comedic genius or the choice make by studio or director blake edward after his death and my review will focus on trail of the pink panther successful eulogy for the series and the great peter seller . the film be clearly a tribute from it dedication to peter and the one and only inspector clouseau to it ambiguous and seemingly symbolic end . the pink panther have be steal and and clouseau ( seller ) be on his way to lugash . over the ocean and his plane disappears . be clouseau really go or be this just another of his ingenious trick and be he undercover in lugash hunt the perpetrator . chief inspector dreyfus ( lom ) be at first overjoyed he may finally be rid of clouseau but soon enough he begin to suspect that he will see his former colleague again and and his debilitating obsession return . meanwhile and a french reporter ( lumley ) begin a series of investigative report try to get to the bottom of the clouseau disappearance . she interview cato ( burt kwouk ) and many of clouseau enemy and colleague and acquaintance . seller appear in the film only in archive footage and scene cut from previous film . the same be true for most of the other panther veteran in the film and but several new dreyfus scene be add . the first half of the film and prior to clouseau disappearance and hang together well enough but it be very clear that we be see a film which have be loosely cobble together from a collage of material . the second half and while more coherent and linearly plot and lack peter seller and really just isn not very funny . lom and kwouk and lumley turn in the best performance here and and after clouseau disappearance and lom and kwouk be really the only performer who occasionally create a laugh . the absence of peter seller be palpable in the second half of the film and and although the film clearly attempt to remain light hearted and pantheresque and this absence lend a sadness to trail of the pink panther which make it a much more successful eulogy than comedy . however and all consider and it be probably the least entertaining film in the pink panther canon .