There are so many comedy turns hanging from a slender plotline in this immoderate helping of Inspector Clouseau from Peter Sellers that it tends to sag in places. But there are still plenty of laughs to be had as Clouseau goes on the trail of drug smugglers, taking his boss, Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), beyond the end of his tether. Sellers is well supported by Dyan Cannon, as a drug dealer's girlfriend, and by Burt Kwouk, as the valet whose constant "jumping" of Clouseau is among the film's highlights. This may lack the coherence of the previous films, but if you accept this as just a vehicle for Sellers's comic genius you won't be disappointed.

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.