cricket30 Review of Pink, Plunk, Plink

Pink, Plunk, Plink (1966)

As in many if not most Pink Panther Pictures . . .

[7/10 · 8 December 2022]

. . . the lanky cat jumps the gun at the expense of the Little Man. In the guise of a symphony orchestra conductor, the not-so-great White hope gets blasted by a firearm fiendishly hidden in the panther's violin bow. After intentionally spoiling three quarters of Beethoven's Fifth, most viewers will be pulling for the tiny dude to perforate and defer Calamity Cat by the close of this episode. However, these hopes are cruelly dashed when the fractious feline fires Micro Man from the Concert Hall on a bottle rocked callously disguised as a baton. The rest of the story is pretty predictable. When the maestro is away, mostly malcontents play.