Forty Pink Winks

The Pink Panther sneaks into an upscale hunter in hopes of trying to find a spot for a good night's sleep. However, once he was inside the hotel, he is pursued by the hotel clerk, depriving the panther in his good night's slumber.

There is not much substance in this cartoon, just a lot of running around. There were a few scenes with some chuckles, especially the ones involving a very large man, whose hotel room the panther sneaks into.

A very average cartoon overall, not one of the more funny and exciting ones out there.

Grade C

Desperate for a place to sleep, the Pink Panther goes from a park bench, to a flop house, to the sofa in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel. At each place, he's stopped from lying down and getting his 40 winks. Either someone takes his spot, or he gets thrown out for having an alarm clock or the house detective tells him to leave.

After the latter occurs, on his way out, he sees four guys enter who are members of the "Knights of the Fez," who are holding a convention at the Ritz. Our guy don's an empty plant holder and puts it on his head, hoping to regain entrance to the hotel as a "Fez" member

The rest of it mostly involves the Panther and the house detective trying to outwit each other....and a big, fat man gets inadvertently involves. The humor "fair," fun but nothing terrific. I've seen a lot better (and worse). Overall: so-so.

Pink Panther cartoons are entertaining on the most part, and while among neither the best of worst of them Forty Pink Winks is still a fair watch. The animation is fine, very simple but fluid enough and colourful rather than sparse and scratchy as some minimal-style animation can be. Likewise with the music, with the still-classic theme tune and slinky incidental scoring that doesn't bog down the pace or feel at odds with the rest of the cartoon. Pinky is as cool and likable as ever with good comic timing and you do sympathise with his situation(admittedly though he has been funnier with better material), and while never quite hilarious the gags are reasonably timed and do have some amusement. The detective is a fun foil too, if not one of the most memorable supporting characters in a Pink Panther cartoon. Forty Pink Winks was a let down however for me after the terrific previous cartoon Salmon Pink. The obese man doesn't really do much that has any real entertainment and he does come across as somewhat pointless, it was fine with just Pinky and the detective. Forty Pink Winks story-wise is not really that special, granted Pink Panther cartoons are not that well remembered for their stories but it was rather bland here. It does start off very well but the second half is little more than the standard chasing/outwitting one another scenario with a lot of predictability and with material that has been much fresher elsewhere. The pacing also could have had more momentum, it wasn't necessarily dull but it was a case of the less inspired the material got the more the pace lost its lustre. On the whole, very like the previous commentator I found Forty Pink Winks a fair cartoon but not a great one. 6/10 Bethany Cox