This is the fourth movie in the series and far and away the poorest. Sellers is once again great as Clouseau, but otherwise the plot is just stupid. For some reason, on the five DVD set I bought, they have this movie listed third ...

Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus is due to be released from the mental institution. Clouseau arrives to help him plead his case and within minutes drives Dreyfus nuts again. Dreyfus escapes and determines to kill Clouseau. He fails, of course, and decides to take a different course. He kidnaps a professor and his daughter and makes the professor build him a doomsday machine that can eliminate anything it’s pointed at. As an initial demonstration, he wipes out the UN building. Dreyfus’s demand is that Clouseau be killed. All the nations of the world send hit men to kill Clouseau so Dreyfus will sell the doomsday machine to them, but of course, they all fail too. Olga, the Russian hit woman, falls for Clouseau and gives up her attempts to kill him. (Actually, she falls for him after mistakenly making love to the Egyptian hit man, thinking it was Clouseau.) Clouseau tracks Dreyfus to his castle in Germany and, through his bumbling, manages to destroy Dreyfus and the machine.

More slapstick than the first two — almost too much, although some of it was very funny. I preferred the older ones where Clouseau was chasing jewel thieves than this one where a madman can make buildings disappear.