Pink Pistons

The Pink Panther is one of my childhood favourites, and I do like a vast majority of his cartoons a lot. Pink Pistons is one of his better ones from 1966. It does run out of mileage at the end, with the ending being too predictable and abrupt. Everything else though is just great. The animation is very nicely done, simply designed but also elegantly so with colours that are very easy on the eye and look as though they were done with thought and care. The music from the incidental music to the theme tune is still as catchy and infectious as ever, succeeding in enhancing the gags and giving the cartoon a sense of life and energy while giving it time to breathe also. The gags and premise are among the funniest and most creative of the Pink Panther cartoons, they all make their mark and only the ending doesn't quite work. Pinky is cool and likable, and the Granny is hilarious and probably one of my favourite Pink Panther secondary characters.

Overall, another great Pink Panther cartoon. 9/10 Bethany Cox

The Pink Panther is nosing around a used-car lot and is contemplating buying a small bug car that looks like it would fit him perfectly. Only it's the wrong color. So he happily pays good money for it and takes it home to spray-paint. Once out on the streets with his new pink bug the car starts to give him hassle and is finally pushed over the edge when Pinky drag races an old granny.

I'm not that impressed with this cartoon. Nothing much really happens and it's not really that hilarious despite few funny moments. It's mostly a one joke affair and doesn't really get good mileage out of it. Pun intended.

Just watched this vintage Pink Panther cartoon on YouTube as linked from the Saturday Morning Blog. In this one, the lead character goes to a used car lot. The first car he looks at, he checks the engine and suddenly it collapses! The next one, he checks its gadgets-of which one of them raises the seat the Panther sits on up high-and it seems to be a good fit for him so he buys it. It turns up the car has a mind of its own, however, as it coughs when his owner spray paints it pink or later on when it gets challenged to a drag race by an antique car granny...Directed by Friz Freleng protégé Hawley Pratt, this cartoon is quite inventively funny almost all the way through. It's just the ending that's a little predictable. Still, Pink Pistons is certainly worth a look.

The Pink Panther buys a puny little car, spray-paints it pink and goes for a joy ride. However, the car seemingly has a mind of its own and can kick and race like the speed of light as it pleases. As a result, while on the road, the car gets angry with the other motorists passing him and leaving a trail of dark exhaust, and tries to get even with them, including a drag racing granny!

Pretty funny stuff here, and the Pink Panther surely didn't really get his moneys worth in this car. Pretty entertaining from start to finish, and you'll be left eager to know how the panther gets out of this predicament.

Grade B+

Pink Panther Odyssey Part XVI

Our panther gets into a spot of bother with a tiny and sentient car that he approves of. It's another surreal and meandering one this and I'm all for it frankly - the only thing that stuck out badly was that perhaps somewhere along the line there was a decision made that Pink shouldn't be smoking so his looong cigarette keeps winking in and out of existence. They say you never quit forever though, I suppose so it makes sense.