I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.
View MoreNot sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
View MoreClose shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
View MoreThe movie really just wants to entertain people.
This is not a bad mini-compilation of Pink Panther cartoons - 12 mini-shorts squeezed into a six-min cartoon short. This one will give you quite the laughs and you get to see the Pink Panther at his cleverly and classic self best.The animation was pretty good and the soundtrack was nice - classic Pink Panther.This is a cleverly done program and is the only cartoon short that I know of made up of compilation of mini-ones. Though, not the best Pink Panther cartoon out there, but it's still a nice touch.Grade B
View MoreThe Pink Panther cartoons are always entertaining to watch and Pink Outs is no exception. It could have been better though, it is far from one of the worst of the Pink Panther cartoons but its not one of the better ones either. The weakest asset was the story, which was rather thinly structured and seemed like just an excuse to string a series of gags together. If most of the gags and the timing weren't as good as they were Pink Outs would be considered by me as pointless. There are also a couple of gags that fall a little flat from being too obvious, and while it is fitting the ending could have been much more rounded off, it just seemed really abrupt and like another gag was supposed to happen after it. The animation maintains the minimal simplicity seen usually with the Pink Panther cartoons, and does so in a colourful and attractive way and everything is drawn very nicely. The theme tune is still positively infectious even after hearing it umpteen times, and the scoring accompanying the cartoon is similarly catchy, as ever orchestrated in a way that was in keeping with 60s jazz while also appealing now too. The timing in Pink Outs is very good, never rushed or dragged, and the gags are clever and most importantly funny, not ground-breaking stuff nor did it need to be. Pinky is a strong lead character, cool, fun and likable, even if he wasn't in the best of scenarios to show off his personality and comic timing. All in all, good cartoon, funny and well-animated but falls short in the story and ending. 7/10 Bethany Cox
View MoreThere is no story to this, just very short takes, tiny comedy skits, if you will. They hit you with a quick comedy bit, and then a "pink out," really a fade out or black out as is normally the term. This whole thing, then, is just a bunch of these 10-second sight gags.The jokes are mostly crazy visuals with impossible things happening. They range from goofy things happening on a painter's scaffold, to a scene at the beach, to the Pink Panther eating folded cardboard and having it expand again inside him, to a high wire act with an elephant, to a kid with a balloon, the PP surfing in his bathroom, on and on and on......just loony sights. Some gags work; some fall a little flat. It's okay, certainly inventive, but a little too much and overall not as funny and clever as I think it hoped to be.
View MoreThis is a very difficult short to describe, because there isn't a plot here and there isn't a story-line as such. It's just a bunch of short comedic sequences (the term generally used to describe them is "blackouts", which is where they got the title for the short) which in most cases share only one unifying factor, namely the Pink Panther. There is a running gag with a handful of the shorts centered on the Pink Panther and a lawnmower. It's a very funny cartoon which benefits from the fact that the main character rarely speaks. The gags are often obvious, but they still work, for the most part, because the timing on the short is very good.This short is available on the Pink Panther Cartoon Collection recently released in a five disc DVD box set and is well worth seeing. The set itself has a very nice design to it and the shorts themselves generally look very nice. Recommended.
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