And that but is that if anyone else should ever play this character, and I were given all these actors to choose from, Steve Martin would be the one that I would go for 9 times out of 10. There's a big but in all of this (sorry for the play on words). There's no one else, in my mind, that should have ever played a role. We all know Inspector Clouseau is a bumbling, stumbling fool, who caused chaos everywhere he went and Sellers embodied that character perfectly. Despite the fact that, essentially, every film in the franchise (minus the one where Dreyfus becomes a super-villain with his own league of super villains) is very similar in tone and execution, Sellers' performance made it so that each and every one of those movies ended up being very entertaining. Anyway, I think we should talk about Sellers for a second and just how tremendous of a performer he was. So, in my opinion, I don't consider it part of the Pink Panther canon and most people don't, to be fair. You may have noticed that I didn't include Trail of the Pink Panther in here simply because that film, shot after Peter Sellers' death, uses cut footage from the previous films and flashbacks. The only one I haven't seen is the original Pink Panther and, in that movie, Clouseau is a supporting character. Out of the five movies Peter Sellers plays Inspector Clouseau in, I've seen four of them. When it comes to the Pink Panther, however, I'm casually knowledgeable. So, obviously, I can't comment on films I haven't seen and hope to maintain any sort of credibility. Sometimes, when I watch movies based on other, older movies, I have no idea what how to compare it to the original movie(s) it is based on because I haven't seen them myself.

Pink panther movies in order