YMMV / Revenge of the Pink Panther

• Anticlimax Boss: Mr. Chong is introduced with a memorable introduction sequence where he takes out a bunch of assassins before being sent after Clouseau... and then gets dealt with in a trivially easy way by the inspector. Curse of the Pink Panther would later bring him back and give him a much more worthy fight against Clifton Sleigh.
• Awesome Music:
  • "Move 'Em Out!", the '70s funk song heard in the club.
  • The Asian-flavored score during the chase/warehouse scene at the end. It was so catchy that Family Guy used it decades later in the episode "Breaking Out is Hard to Do".
• Franchise Original Sin: It's considered the last good movie of the franchise, but several of the problems of the next sequels already exist here: questionable running jokes, offensive racial stereotypes, slow pacing and exaggerated plots. While it's shored up by a few things — including giving Cato A Day in the Limelight, Simone being one of the stronger female lead characters in the series, and several fondly-remembered bits including the "special delivery, a bomb" sequence and the ending car chase in Hong Kong — there is one key reason why this movie is good: the brilliant Peter Sellers was still alive.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Clouseau's first disguise upon arriving in China being a stereotypical Chinese person which makes him stick out like a sore thumb is this due to Sellers' final film having him play Fu Manchu, a character of Chinese ethnicity.
• Retroactive Recognition: A cemetary guard is played by John Bluthal, who would later be best known for playing Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley.
• Signature Scene: Dreyfus' attempt to eulogize Clouseau is a masterclass in comedy, with Dreyfus frequently unable to stop from hysterically laughing, while convincing everyone else in the church that he's overcome with grief.

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