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.

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-

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.

"Pink-a-Boo", without being one of the best cartoons by the Pink Panther, is nevertheless a great short and a classic. It shows us an angry Pink Panther dealing with energetic and persistent mice.

In fact, that's where all the fun of this story. A bunch of mice which are great little thieves steal everything they can from the Panther's refrigerator. However, only one mouse in particular (the «leader of the pack») steals the food, while the other mice are guests to a party and bring an electric guitar and a bottle of champagne.

What makes me laugh most in this cartoon are the following scenes: when the Panther is about to eat his sandwich and the mouse steals it in the last moment; when the Panther falls on the mouse (after being slammed by him), letting him dizzy; and the part when the mouse uses the telephone to invite his friends with that mousy-voice.

The only thing I don't like is the ending, with those vicious dogs chasing the Panther (even more just after his victory) and he's forced to hide himself in the mouse-hole, where a mouse is playing the electric guitar.