Psst Pink

After getting a flat tire, the Panther stops the make a tire change. While doing so, the new tire slips out of his grasp and rolls the down the hill. (Who would change a tire on a steep incline? Nobody, but it made for an entertaining one-joke cartoon.)

The Panther chases after the tire for miles on city blocks. The city scenery in here, by the way, is very done. It has to be San Francisco with its trolley cars. Finally, the tire enters a movie theater and the Panther has trouble getting a ticket to get into the place.

It really gets far out when the never-tired tire rolls out of the theater to a hotel across the street. This tire is so talented it get maneuver in a revolving door and then use an escalator!

Clever in parts put the second half of this isn't strong enough to carry that one-joke story. In the end, it's okay but didn't evoke any laughs in the last few minutes.

The pink panther has a flat tire and when he wants to change it his new tire rolls away. The entire cartoon he is chasing the tire. There are some funny moments but it is more the animation than the cartoon itself. For example, all people here are not in color except for the cop: he is entirely blue. Things like this are nice little things to enjoy, but soon the cartoon gets repetitive and we get bored.

Like a lot of Pink Panther animated short films things are too much of the same. When the joke is really hilarious it gets above average, when the joke is not even a real joke it becomes dull. This is an example of the latter.

The Pink Panther gets a flat tire while driving up the road and as he was getting his spare tire out, he places it on the ground for a moment and it rows away down the slippery path, rolling through all sorts of places, from an opera theater to the zoo, and from an office building to a tire store. The Pink Panther really had a hard time trying to recover the run- away tire, resulting in quite the laughs, gags and slapstick humor.

There's not much of a story here, just the panther chasing his runaway tire. But, there's still some good laughable moments that made the cartoon quite entertaining.

Grade B-

Not a bad cartoon, but of the 1971 batch of Pink Panther cartoons seen so far- which is all but two- Psst Pink was the weakest. It is mainly let down by the story and the second half. The story is one that is both predictable and later on repetitive while the second half is very lacklustre, the best gag is only raise-a-smile worthy and the rest failed to really amuse. That the jokes in this half are not that inventive and could have done with crisper timing, the second half loses the energy that the first had add to the problem. The first half however is good, the gags here while not hilarious are entertaining and are visually well-animated. The action keeps things moving nicely. The animation keeps things simple but still has some good amount of detail instead of being too stark and it is elegant and colourful too. The theme tune is still wholly memorable and the music accompanying the action while keeping to the seductive-sounding and catchy jazz music of the 60s-70s still enhances things rather than distract. Pinky has not lost any of his likability or coolness, and the tyre matches him in energy and comes close to stealing the show. In conclusion, uneven but a small step above average, a case of one half being good and the other not so much. 6/10 Bethany Cox