Pink Panzer (1965) Online

Normally, I hate it when they have some annoying narrator talking to the Pink Panther. Thankfully, it doesn't happen frequently. However, in this one, it's okay because it's Paul Frees, not a name you probably would not know but certainly a familiar voice. It seems like I heard Frees' voice many times from the '50s through the '70s. The gentleman is still alive- and-kicking, too, in his mid '80s as I write this.

As another reviewer points out here, the "voice" is very devil-like in his message, stirring up neighbor against neighbor, whispering remarks in both the Panther's ear and his neighbor's, getting the two to square off against each other, all for selfish reasons.

There's lots of truth to this cartoon. We may not hear audible voices, but you know these kind of bad thoughts enter our heads from time to time, and some of them probably are from Satan. It's best to know where they come from, and ignore them!

The last minute of this cartoon is really hilarious as this neighborly feud escalates into literally an all-out war. The final message, delivered by the devil himself, will have you laughing right out loud.

In this cartoon the Pink Panther is relaxing in his hammock in the back yard. His neighbor mows his own lawn with Pinky's lawnmower. Pinky is rather unfazed by this until a voice-over narrator reminds him and provokes him into taking back what's his. He also does this to the neighbor to prepare him for Pinky's retaliation. And so the two of them resort to bigger and badder techniques over the war of the lawnmower (and hedge-clippers) until two armies (with humorously interwoven live-action stock footage) are facing off over the garden. Pinky is in a tank, this is where the Panzer of the title comes from.

It's a simple cartoon but funny. As Pinky always is.

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 (gloatingly-inflammatory remarks such as, "Let's see, now... how long has it been since Harry borrowed your mower? **Last summer**, wasn't it?", and "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.