Pink Pistons (1966) User Reviews

Off on a pink hurl

[CuriosityKilledShawn · 5/10 · 2 November 2005]

The Pink Panther is nosing around a used-car lot and is contemplating buying a small bug car that looks like it would fit him perfectly. Only it's the wrong color. So he happily pays good money for it and takes it home to spray-paint. Once out on the streets with his new pink bug the car starts to give him hassle and is finally pushed over the edge when Pinky drag races an old granny.

I'm not that impressed with this cartoon. Nothing much really happens and it's not really that hilarious despite few funny moments. It's mostly a one joke affair and doesn't really get good mileage out of it. Pun intended.

This Was the Largest Auto I Could Afford

[owen-watts · 7/10 · 11 February 2021]

Pink Panther Odyssey Part XVI

Our panther gets into a spot of bother with a tiny and sentient car that he approves of. It's another surreal and meandering one this and I'm all for it frankly - the only thing that stuck out badly was that perhaps somewhere along the line there was a decision made that Pink shouldn't be smoking so his looong cigarette keeps winking in and out of existence. They say you never quit forever though, I suppose so it makes sense.

I Wish They Would Have Kept Going!

[ccthemovieman-1 · 9/10 · 26 May 2007]

Our pink hero is searching for used cars in a lot when he discovers a James Bond-type Aston Martin vehicle with all the gadgets. This little sports car intrigues and impresses him, so he buys it.

As in other Pink Panther cartoons, an inanimate object turns to be human-like, so when our guy brings his new car back home and begins to spray paint the front of it pink, the car balks! It wants no part of this spray-paint job!

The car - not the Panther - winds up in a drag race against an old lady, who turns out to be "Granny Flash: senior citizens drag champion."

This was hilarious, thanks to Granny, and I hated to see it end so abruptly. They could have continued this for another full cartoon with the just race between the two cars.

It seems that somebody in the film's art department momentarily forgot that Pinky had re-painted the car!

[fredseaborne · 8/10 · 28 March 2007]

I enjoyed this movie very much... an obvious comical parody of the famous "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" movie. However, I noticed an error in the color of the car in one scene --- after Pinky meets Granny and they race the first time, she turns on the "supersonic rockets" and roars off, leaving Pinky and his car covered with soot. A few seconds later, Pinky and his car zoom away after Granny, shaking off the soot and leaving it in a pile on the road. But then the car is next shown in its original BLUE color as it whizzes off down the windy road and disappears around the bend --- evidently somebody in the art department momentarily forgot that Pinky had re-painted the car pink.

Speed racer!

[OllieSuave-007 · 8/10 · 5 September 2016]

The Pink Panther buys a puny little car, spray-paints it pink and goes for a joy ride. However, the car seemingly has a mind of its own and can kick and race like the speed of light as it pleases. As a result, while on the road, the car gets angry with the other motorists passing him and leaving a trail of dark exhaust, and tries to get even with them, including a drag racing granny!

Pretty funny stuff here, and the Pink Panther surely didn't really get his moneys worth in this car. Pretty entertaining from start to finish, and you'll be left eager to know how the panther gets out of this predicament.

Grade B+

The Pink Panther goes drag-racing

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 19 May 2013]

The Pink Panther is one of my childhood favourites, and I do like a vast majority of his cartoons a lot. Pink Pistons is one of his better ones from 1966. It does run out of mileage at the end, with the ending being too predictable and abrupt. Everything else though is just great. The animation is very nicely done, simply designed but also elegantly so with colours that are very easy on the eye and look as though they were done with thought and care. The music from the incidental music to the theme tune is still as catchy and infectious as ever, succeeding in enhancing the gags and giving the cartoon a sense of life and energy while giving it time to breathe also. The gags and premise are among the funniest and most creative of the Pink Panther cartoons, they all make their mark and only the ending doesn't quite work. Pinky is cool and likable, and the Granny is hilarious and probably one of my favourite Pink Panther secondary characters.

Overall, another great Pink Panther cartoon. 9/10 Bethany Cox

The Pink Panther's Pink Pistons mines some good laughs out of drag racing

[tavm · 8/10 · 31 August 2010]

Just watched this vintage Pink Panther cartoon on YouTube as linked from the Saturday Morning Blog. In this one, the lead character goes to a used car lot. The first car he looks at, he checks the engine and suddenly it collapses! The next one, he checks its gadgets-of which one of them raises the seat the Panther sits on up high-and it seems to be a good fit for him so he buys it. It turns up the car has a mind of its own, however, as it coughs when his owner spray paints it pink or later on when it gets challenged to a drag race by an antique car granny...Directed by Friz Freleng protégé Hawley Pratt, this cartoon is quite inventively funny almost all the way through. It's just the ending that's a little predictable. Still, Pink Pistons is certainly worth a look.

Naturally, anyone seeing the title PINK PISTONS . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 5 December 2022]

. . . in 1966 would immediately conclude that such a picture must be a documentary about the toothless Detroit Pistons basketball team. The woeful Pistons finished their tragic season that spring with an unprecedented 58 defeats, offset by a mere 22 victories, for a thoroughly depressing win percentage of only .275%, the team's very worst in 25 seasons of play. How is this terrible performance reflected, then, in PINK PISTONS? In a nutshell, this film is about a used car customer who is hoodwinked into purchasing a total lemon, or a proverbial Edsel. After being disappointed with this junker at every turn, the customer returns the abomination to the fraudster cheat seller, and gets his money back. The Real Life parallel here is that the Fort Wayne Pistons won two professional national championships before being foisted off upon the so-called "Motor City." Once in Motown, these not-so-cagey hoop-stirs became a world laughing stock, eventually driving two-thirds of Detroit's population out-of-town after the city failed to get its money back for this sporting travesty.