Prefabricated Pink (1967) User Reviews

One-Man Disaster Crew

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 21 April 2007]

Walking by a construction site, the Pink Panther sees a sign on the fence "workers needed," so he hops the wall and enters the site. He walks right by the half-dozing foreman and begins to go to work. Apparently, the PP doesn't think he needs a job interview or anything.

Immediately, our hero causes a disaster with the first thing he does. This joke carries the cartoon as the Panthers walks around on high beams, does various projects, takes and puts back work objects....with the result - every time - being that somebody gets clobbered and it's usual that same foreman. This almost reminded me a Three Stooges short in which the boys would inadvertently make a total wreck out of a place, such as when they were plumbers.

The gags here are clever and fun to watch.

Cheap Panther Labor

[CuriosityKilledShawn · 6/10 · 4 March 2016]

In this cartoon Pinky is ambling along the street when he spots a construction site and fancies himself as a laborer. Without an interview, skills, or a clue what he is doing Pinky invades the site and starts doing stuff, much to annoyance of the foreman who can't seem to nail him down and scold him.

Everything that Pinky does leads to disaster, as one would expect, with plenty of amusing slapstick and pratfalls. The crew eventually get tired of his antics and of having a giant cat among their workforce and chase him out of town.

A fairly amusing cartoon.

Building site disaster with Pinky

[TheLittleSongbird · 7/10 · 30 July 2013]

Prefabricated Pink is not among the best Pink Panther cartoons. As a cartoon, it is decent but not great(personal opinion of course). The animation is not quite as good this time round, at times it's attractive especially in the colours and Pinky's character design but when it's more minimal than usual it can come across as rather simplistic and sparse. The story is not unfamiliar territory to begin with and doesn't do anything particularly new with it, parts of Prefabricated Pink were predictable. The ending also had a weird tone to it and could have been better resolved with a minute more. The music is still fantastic though, the theme tune is endearingly catchy and the orchestration synchronises with the humour brilliantly as always. The gags don't disappoint either, they are clever and most importantly of all they entertain, you do know how the cartoon's going to turn out and with some of the disasters Pinky causes but the disasters themselves are a lot of fun to watch. The pacing is crisp, and Pinky, the Pink Panther himself as ever carries the humour and cartoon with his immense likability, natural comic timing and charisma. All in all, decent but not great Pink Panther. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Prefabricated (but not bad) cartoon

[Spleen · 31 March 2002]

Pink Panther cartoons (for which I have a soft spot) often feel recycled, even when they're not. The artists responsible for them were all veterans, and if they hadn't told these exact jokes before, they'd told many like them - only, in the Panther cartoons, they're told for the first time in an almost perfectly minimal style, shorn of such things as intricate artwork, complicated animation, camera movement, and personality. (The Pink Panther's distinguishing feature is that he doesn't have one. He may, at most, have moment-to-moment motivation.)

There's always a cunning exactness to the design, and the artwork is often attractive - although, in this cartoon, it's a touch TOO minimal for that to be the case. The Panther is long and thin, and so are girders, and so are wooden planks, and apart from these things (and a blue sky background), there's not a lot to look at. That's the cost of applying the Pink Panther style to a construction site. The benefit is that no bad cartoon, I'll be willing to wager, has ever been made about a construction site. They're too rich in possibilities. So the gags are good, the humour unlaboured and unforced, the timing assured. At the very least it's a decent effort.

A Health and Safety Nightmare

[owen-watts · 7/10 · 17 August 2023]

Pink Panther Odyssey Part XXXIV

We're on a construction site here, populated entirely by Little Men, and Pink (inadvertently or not, we'll let the courts decide) murders a lot of them through his shoddy working practices. It's like a health and safety video gone mad.

Now because IMDb won't let you write short reviews, even for short films, so 'm going to include a random selection of trivia:

• It is rumoured that the writer Franz Kafka developed one of the first hard hats
• The earliest hard hats were developed in America after the first world war and inspired by army helmets.

• If a hard hat is full of boiling metal rivets, you shouldn't put it on.

No hardhats needed!

[OllieSuave-007 · 9/10 · 16 September 2016]

The Pink Panther sees a construction worker wanted sign and decides to joins a crew of pointy-nosed men working at a building site. There, the Pink Panther's inexperience inadvertently leads to a series of disasters and mishaps at the expense of the men, which were honestly quite funny and entertaining. You will get laughs out of the slapstick humor and gags the pointy-nosed men fall victim to the oblivious Pink Panther's work.

You get to see the Pink Panther's classic sly and outwitting self. It's a funny little cartoon that is great for the entire family.

Grade A

It doesn't take much research to learn that . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 15 December 2022]

. . . Aaron A. Aardvark founded the Acme Construction Company in Brooklyn, NY on Oct. 24, 1929. This is the business briefly employing the Pink Panther during PREFABRICATED PINK. Following the U. S. stock market crash, Acme was purchased by Warner Bros. In 1930. Early Acme architectural triumphs included the Empire State Building, whose construction is documented within the 1941 film RHAPSODY IN RIVETS. However, a termite infestation resulted in the sale of Acme by Warner to United Artists in the mid-1960's. Soon United's exterminators terminated the termites, resulting in a short-term revival of Acme's building concern, depicted during PREFABRICATED PINK.

"Building" in an other way..

[ProHellasPrefabricatedHouses · 9/10 · 9 June 2022]

Pink is awlays PINK. Its a descent cartoon and you can watch it when ever you want. Pinks destroys everything as he tries to fix what needs fixing... lol.

Just give it a chance ;)

Prefabricated Pink?

[Atreyu_II · 7/10 · 4 April 2009]

Yes, this is basically just another cartoon where the "Little White Man" is constructing a site and Pinky causes major messes, but this is probably the funniest of this type.

This isn't, by any means, one of Pinky's best. No way, very far from that. It is quite simple, predictable and poor in artwork. To be honest, the story itself is nothing special either, but has its fun.

Intentionally or not, the truth is that here (again), once the Pink Panther enters in scene, he manages to make it all go wrong for the "Little White Man" and his job partners. Pinky ruins everything and even causes lots of trouble, particularly for the little white man. Despite that, there are some funny moments as the cartoon runs.

The ending is kinda unusual and strange.