The Pink Phink

This is clever right from the opening credits and, as I learned here at IMDb, was the first theatrical Pink Panther cartoon, and it won an Åcademy Award!

To be honest, I didn't laugh out loud at anything in here, but I throughly enjoyed this probably smiled throughout most of it. To me, the inventiveness of this cartoon was the attraction. How many interesting and humorous ways can someone paint over what another person has just painted? Well, this cartoon will show you. I liked the idea of no background but only the object being painted drawn in the cartoon. It made for some unique animation.

This set the tone for many enjoyable Pink Panther cartoons to follow, ones in which there is no dialog but the visuals so well done that none are required.

Friz Freleng's phenomenally popular Pink Panther animated shorts legacy starts right here and you can see why it caught the mood of the time. A nicely minimal art style, a louche jazzy score and a straightforward and charismatic plot. This is the Oscar-winning foundation on which all of Freleng's output for the next few decades is built on and it still functions magnificently. Distilled charm.

This Academy Award-winning short was the first Pink Panther theatrical release (at least as a short subject) and is a winner on all counts. Hilarious, well animated, marvelous story and use of music-everything is wonderful. There wee other very good shorts in the series, but none of them even came close to equaling this first one. I've always felt sorry for the poor little guy in this cartoon! Most highly recommended.

I didn't often love the "Pink Panther" but I always thought Henry Mancini's theme with that seedy saxophone a piece of genius. This time, the painter is trying to paint things blue but the panther is having none of it. What was grey must be blue/pink; pink/blue - it's a war of attrition. It could go on for ever, or at least until one of them runs out of paint. Narked, the painter decides to deal with his pesky nemesis once and for all. Will it work? It's a bit repetitive, we get the gist after about three minutes, but it's still quite entertaining - especially the garden sprinkler. I didn't love the end, though.

I am a fan of the movies and cartoons of the pink panther. And this is a great pink panther cartoon, this film is about the little man, who is currently a house painter, and he wants to paint the house blue, the panther comes in and decides to paint it pink.

The panther looks more like his movie design than his design that you see in the very next cartoon. Henry Mancini is good at the pink panther theme, and William Lava is good at the other music included in this film.

Overall I give it 10/10 stars for a great start to the pink panther cartoons!

-Rocky And Yipper