Pink-A-Boo

Pink Panther Odyssey Part XXI

Another solid Panther in a good consistent run o' them. Pink does battle with a mouse who just wants to party - it's not breaking many molds in the great cartoon canon of characters doing battle with smart mice but it's got the pink jazzy cool to it and some good surreal bits and MOST IMPORTANTLY it has a solid ending.

A little mouse keeps stealing the pink panther's food so he calls the pest exterminator but the exterminator thinks he must get rid off the panther instead of the mouse. The mouse steals the phone and makes sure his friends come to the panther's house for a party. He must find a solution to make the mice quiet.

This short starts nice, had a pretty dull part in the middle but gives us some good laughs in the end. I have seen better but it's not that bad.

Rather than go into the story, which a couple of other reviewers did here, I'll state a few things that struck me funny in this Pink Panther cartoon.

I liked the mouse's Park Avenue-type entrance, the fanciest I've ever seen in a cartoon, and cartoons love to show mice and cats. I also laughed at the "dagwood" sandwich he made and carried back to the hole, and the clever way he figured out how to stuff in through the small entrance.

I also laughed at his buddies knocking on the front door and then racing in with musical instruments and a bottle of champagne for the party! Later, we see them party hats on. These were amazing mice. One guy even plays the electric guitar.

However, they lose their cuteness in the last minute or two. These guys are pushy!

In this short, the Pink Panther is just relaxing in his house when a mouse appears from his hole in the wall and helps himself to the fridge. A call to the exterminator (one of the cartoon's few laughs) proves to be fruitless as does any futile pursuit of the rodents. Many unfunny things follow until Pinky discovers a convenient book in his library called 'How to catch Mice'. It instructs him to dress up as a cat (even though Panthers are cats) to scare them away. It works, but he is then chased by dogs.

Not really that funny and rather misjudged as we've seen 'cat and mouse' action a hundred times before with Tom and Jerry.

This is a somewhat funny little cartoon where the Pink Panther has been invaded by a pack of mice in his house, who are partying noisily inside their hole in the wall. To add insult to injury, the mice steal food from the panther's fridge as he was reading his newspaper. As a result, the panther hilariously tries to get rid of the rodents, from calling an exterminator to dressing up like a cat.

Plenty of little laughs here and the mice can be a little endearing at first, but got very annoying along the way. The back and forth duel between panther and mice were pretty hilarious, but too bad panther got more than he bargained for.

Grade B-