RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

OllieSuave-007 The Pink Panther was gift-wrapping a basketball when it drops to the floor and bounces out the window, knocking the pointy-nosed man below on his balcony swimming pool and rolls down to the street. The Pink Panther chases the bouncing basketball into a zoo, which crosses path with an ostrich and two seals. The ball seemingly develops a mind of its own and decides to bounce away from the pursuing panther.For a cartoon, I thought a bouncing basketball with a mind of its own was over-imaginative and thought up with not much substance and clever ideas. The cartoon is basically just the Pink Panther chasing the ball around - not much to laugh about and not much entertainment to go out.Grade D---

Atreyu_II This cartoon is quite unusual. Funny, yes, but awkward and a little stupid, to be sincere. It's not one of Pink Panther's finest, but it is okay. Simple but unpredictable, acceptable artwork (without being fine) and some good gags.Here, Pinky lives an adventure with an infernal basketball. It starts by falling down the building and right on the little white man's head. As soon as Pinky recovers the ball, that's when strange things happen until the end. The ball wins a life and a mind of its own. The ball stubbornly refuses to obey to Pinky and, among other things, puts Pinky in trouble, makes Pinky follow it through the entire city and even becomes a giant basketball during some moments.The ending is the dumbest part: the basketball falls in love with another ball. Pinky never manages to recover the ball. The ball just won't take any orders. I wouldn't put up with that, I'd quit on the ball.

rbverhoef Spoilers.In this Pink Panther short the panther loses a basketball that has a life on its own. At first the ball ens up in a zoo, with an ostrich that thinks the ball is his egg and seals who play with it. After this the ball really seems to know what it is doing. It takes a taxi, enters a store where it tries to hide under a wig. The panther finds it and the ball bounces away again. Then the ball runs into a volleyball and they fall in love. Together they go to the bridal shop but after a vision of the basketball he must leave as quick as he can. He encounters the panther again.You understand it is all as stupid as it can be, but there are some gags that really work and therefore it is fun to watch. Although I am normally not a big fan of the Pink Panther shorts I liked this one a lot better than most others.

Spleen The Pink Panther chases a basketball with a mind of its own - literally, as it turns out: it catches a taxi, impersonates a mannequin head, falls in love with a volleyball, etc. Each strange turn of events comes across as just another desperate attempt to keep the cartoon going. If the basketball had bounced so as to LOOK as though it was obeying the laws of physics the surrealism might have had some charm and the contrivances might have had some zest ... hell, if the basketball had even had a minimal personality, the cartoon might have worked. The artwork is disappointing, too.