Pink Outs (1967) User Reviews

Not A Bad Idea, But Didn't Really Work

[ccthemovieman-1 · 6/10 · 21 April 2007]

There is no story to this, just very short takes, tiny comedy skits, if you will. They hit you with a quick comedy bit, and then a "pink out," really a fade out or black out as is normally the term. This whole thing, then, is just a bunch of these 10-second sight gags.

The jokes are mostly crazy visuals with impossible things happening. They range from goofy things happening on a painter's scaffold, to a scene at the beach, to the Pink Panther eating folded cardboard and having it expand again inside him, to a high wire act with an elephant, to a kid with a balloon, the PP surfing in his bathroom, on and on and on......just loony sights. Some gags work; some fall a little flat.

It's okay, certainly inventive, but a little too much and overall not as funny and clever as I think it hoped to be.

This is just one short bit after another-just a series of quick blackouts

[llltdesq · 8/10 · 25 August 2006]

This is a very difficult short to describe, because there isn't a plot here and there isn't a story-line as such. It's just a bunch of short comedic sequences (the term generally used to describe them is "blackouts", which is where they got the title for the short) which in most cases share only one unifying factor, namely the Pink Panther. There is a running gag with a handful of the shorts centered on the Pink Panther and a lawnmower. It's a very funny cartoon which benefits from the fact that the main character rarely speaks. The gags are often obvious, but they still work, for the most part, because the timing on the short is very good.

This short is available on the Pink Panther Cartoon Collection recently released in a five disc DVD box set and is well worth seeing. The set itself has a very nice design to it and the shorts themselves generally look very nice. Recommended.

Good but falls short

[TheLittleSongbird · 7/10 · 7 August 2013]

The Pink Panther cartoons are always entertaining to watch and Pink Outs is no exception. It could have been better though, it is far from one of the worst of the Pink Panther cartoons but its not one of the better ones either. The weakest asset was the story, which was rather thinly structured and seemed like just an excuse to string a series of gags together. If most of the gags and the timing weren't as good as they were Pink Outs would be considered by me as pointless. There are also a couple of gags that fall a little flat from being too obvious, and while it is fitting the ending could have been much more rounded off, it just seemed really abrupt and like another gag was supposed to happen after it. The animation maintains the minimal simplicity seen usually with the Pink Panther cartoons, and does so in a colourful and attractive way and everything is drawn very nicely. The theme tune is still positively infectious even after hearing it umpteen times, and the scoring accompanying the cartoon is similarly catchy, as ever orchestrated in a way that was in keeping with 60s jazz while also appealing now too. The timing in Pink Outs is very good, never rushed or dragged, and the gags are clever and most importantly funny, not ground-breaking stuff nor did it need to be. Pinky is a strong lead character, cool, fun and likable, even if he wasn't in the best of scenarios to show off his personality and comic timing. All in all, good cartoon, funny and well-animated but falls short in the story and ending. 7/10 Bethany Cox

This controversial picture has been banned by many states . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 17 December 2022]

. . . due to one of the final segments, depicting a contentious "balloon." Though this device was invented in 1564, the rubber version did not pop up until 1855. Legally denoted as a "sheath-shaped barrier contraption," these gizmos can be used to create a physical barrier to prevent tars from sailing into port. PINK OUTS presents a cruel but widely practiced "joke" in which an adult and a child stumble across a discarded "balloon" on the street, and the grown-up either suggests that it is an inflatable toy, or "plays along" with a young innocent's assumption to that effect. Obviously, if the film crew trying to perpetrate, popularize and perpetuate this sort of demented "humor" against the Youth of America were still alive, they would be drawn quartered immediately.

Not a bad mini-compilation.

[OllieSuave-007 · 8/10 · 31 July 2016]

This is not a bad mini-compilation of Pink Panther cartoons - 12 mini-shorts squeezed into a six-min cartoon short. This one will give you quite the laughs and you get to see the Pink Panther at his cleverly and classic self best.

The animation was pretty good and the soundtrack was nice - classic Pink Panther.

This is a cleverly done program and is the only cartoon short that I know of made up of compilation of mini-ones. Though, not the best Pink Panther cartoon out there, but it's still a nice touch.

Grade B

Insanely Entertaining

[RockyAndYipper · 9/10 · 13 August 2019]

I love this cartoon, so fun and silly, and hilarious, go see it if you can. I find it so surreal to the point of supreme satisfaction. Pink outs is a must see, so crazy and so funny! -rockyandyipper

Cheap Ins

[CuriosityKilledShawn · 3/10 · 11 March 2016]

This short is clearly just made up of deleted scenes or failed ideas from previous Pink Panther cartoons. There is no story at all to this one as it is no more than a succession of "black out" gags designed to end cartoons on a visual pun. That's it. I know Pink Panther cartoons are not known for their story lines, rather their style and cool cat vibe but this one is very thin and pushing its luck. If you've never been entertained by a Simpsons "clip show" episode you'll not enjoy this one. A couple of them made me chuckle but it really is not one I will be re-watching. I hope it represents the worst of what the Pink Panther has to offer as I might not be able to tolerate less of an effort.

22 pink films about nothing

[owen-watts · 5/10 · 2 March 2024]

Pink Panther Odyssey Part XXXVI

The last Pink Panther short of 1967 is a series of bumper sequences excised from the TV show. There are 12 of them crammed in here and a lot of them are barely even jokes and didn't really need spotlighting in this format really. Feels cheap.

Additionally I now have to find 200 other words for this short review of a series of short segments so here's a trivia section for the back. The shortest ever film nominated for an Oscar is 100 seconds long, it was made in 2012 and is called "Fresh Guacamole". You'll know as being that video you see of an item being split in half and revealed to be something else. A golf ball becomes a lime. A short review becomes a long trivia section, and so on.