Pink Panzer (1965)

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

The Pink Panther is in an all-our war between his neighbor who seems to love borrowing garden tools from the panther without asking him first. From cutting down a tree limb to protect a property line to cutting down an entire section of a house, it's a cartoon that you would love to cheer the Pink Panther on, hoping he would get the best out of his jerk of a neighbor.Paul Frees narrates the story and is the voice influencing both characters to turn on each other. Does Frees have such a menacing and devilish voice in this one - absolute chilling.Not a very funny cartoon, or a very entertaining one. Just a lot of back and forth duels with not much humor or substance.Grade C

Pink Panther cartoons are always fun to watch, and Pink Panzer is one such example. The story is one that is rather simplistic and routine and also one where the latter half is a little more entertaining than the former. However, the animation is elegant and very nicely drawn, it is not among the best animation I've seen but the fact that it looks very good matters much more. The main theme tune is deservedly one of animation's most iconic, and still mains its infectious quality. The music that accompanies the action is also catchy. The gags are clever and funny, particularly in the last minute or so, while the narration has a lot of wit that is delivered with juicy relish. Pinky is still fun and cool if not perhaps in the best situation to properly play to his personality. And then there is Paul Frees who embodies the neighbour from hell character.All in all, very good and will not leave Pink Panther fans disappointed. 8/10 Bethany Cox

The next-door neighbor neglects to return the Pink Panther's lawn mower, an oversight the sinister off-screen narrator is only too happy to point out to the peaceful feline suburbanite. The insinuating voice pours poison into the neighbor's ear as well, and soon the two home owners are feuding over some hedge clippers and a tree limb hanging over the property line. Finally, the Pink Panther builds a brick wall to separate himself from his one-time friend, an act the neighbor considers to be a declaration of war.At the end, the two neighbors are donning combat helmets and exchanging cannon fire, but not even the interpolation of live-action stock footage, featuring real soldiers and tanks, adds much life to this tepidly comic morality play. The Pink Panther is ill-suited to this material. The feuding neighbor storyline has been handled better elsewhere, notably in the Donald Duck short, "The New Neighbor" (1953).

LOL... I thought that Paul Frees did an absolutely spectacular and inimitable job of speaking in a sneaky seductive manner ("Then YOU cut it off...") to create steadily building resentment and get both neighbors more and more incensed with each other... it sounded EXACTLY the way I'd have expected the little orange "devil" to speak who was constantly needling both neighbors and whom we finally see at the end of the movie ("You know... it might be a good idea to return that lawn mower YOU borrowed... hahahahahahahahahaha!!!")... it sounded to me as if Mr. Frees was actually enjoying his role here as the "devil's advocate"... it appeared that he was actually having FUN doing it.