User Reviews

This Pink Panther cartoon has him traveling as a Pied Piper in either a Swiss or Scottish town and tries to drive away rodents in a townsperson's home while playing on the piper; somehow, the mice follows the music.

This is a very random cartoon to me with no clear story or plot - just the panther randomly playing music with the mice following. Not very much significance to this. There are some slapstick humor moments, but overall, it's not a terribly entertaining cartoon and it could easily be one of the more forgettable Pink Panther cartoons.

Grade D+

Not among the best from the Pink Panther but still enjoyable and if anything a middling Pink Panther cartoon rather than among the best or worst. The Pink Panther cartoons from 1975 onwards did start to look rushed-looking with sparse backgrounds and simplistic use of colour, and unfortunately that is the case with Pink Piper. The animation in the Pink Panther cartoons often did have a purposefully and often endearingly minimal/simple look but 1975 onwards saw a point where it came across as too simple. The pacing does lag here and the innkeeper serves as a good foil but not much more than that, he is pretty much a plot-device and you don't really feel anything for him, something that the Pink Panther cartoons on the most part excelled at when it came to the supporting foil roles. Pinky however is still cool and likable as well as being more sympathetic than usual and the mice are cute. The music, from the timeless theme tune, the clever synchronisation of action and sound in the incidental scoring to the Piper theme that you'll have little trouble forgetting, is just great as per usual. The humour is never hilarious here but it is amusing, but while the story is little that is surprising and some of it takes a bit of a weird note it is incredibly sweet(especially the ending, a little predictable but very touching), any Pink Panther cartoon that has Pinky helping others and others helping Pinky always goes up a notch in my book. Both of those happen in Pink Piper and it is difficult not to be moved. To conclude, not a great Pink Panther cartoon but a decent one. 7/10 Bethany Cox