A Shot in the Dark 1964/1965 by AverageMansReviews

A Shot in the Dark 1964/1965 by AverageMansReviews

Previously instalment: The Pink Panther 1963 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-pink-panther-1963-by.html

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/drugs/stabbing/impaling/animal cruelty/medical/references to sexual assault

You are on the case... You are off case... You are on the case...: briefly; accidentally Inspector Jacques Clouseau [Peter Sellers:] a bumbling French inspector gets assigned this murder case, but the number one suspect is innocent her name is Maria Gambrelli [Elke Sommer:] but okay it doesn't look like when someone sees her with the smoking gun literally in hand at the time of the murder and we meet Cato [Burt Kwouk:] he is a martial arts training; but highly skilled martial artist anyway/training partner and servant to the Inspector where he can spring up at anytime or anywhere.

Generally speaking: the art in the opening credits is of Inspector Jacques Clouseau; trying to solve this case and at one point we see the Can-can; this is really priceless animation; you can't replace hand drawn art; it has a timeless quarterly to it as with broadly speaking computer animation; depending on how it looks when it first goes out has by and large a tougher time being timeless, because computer animation and computer technology is always changing and updating. The storyline/script is excellent; it is a murder mystery obviously including comedy as well and because the script is excellently written you can place fluent and consequently natural skit scenes, which are plentiful and we even get one breaking-the-fourth-wall; where we have our Inspector looking directly at the camera for a split second, as we have these many characters arguing behind him, so conversely the framework and pacing of this 102 minutes film is good, but it also moves with purpose and a lively nature

Action, comedy and art; we have some elements of usual action with various weapons being used, with our Inspector sluicing around various locations or trying to without being sent directly to Cato training from out of anywhere at anytime or/and with this individual missing their intended target. The Inspector is still very clumsy be it falling out of somewhere or sets his coat on fire and trying to synchronise his watch with someone else's watch and for taste of the art amongst other things we have Spanish, Hawaiian/Persian and/or Russian dancing; but broadly speaking throughout the set designs, landscapes and/or wardrobe and accessories are of the highest quality; so there is always something to look and fresh or experience.

Character developments and performances; the character developments are good versions of what they are meant to be; based on towards the closing stages of this movie, they did this whole; getting the suspects into one room with the Inspector and do the whole finger pointing thing; which is always an excellent or should be an excellent crescendo to a mystery movie, so the character developments have to follow a good yet reliable character type for this kind of styles work properly in the closing stages. The cast of performers are also defined in their characters, which gives them an element of excellent chemistry and sharpness to live performances, for Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau; you can see and feel that as this is the second time in this role, he has more of an understanding as this character, consequently he makes this role is very own, he also has spot on chemistry with Burt Kwouk as Cato and vice versa; they really do get each other's character and performer even though they spend only a little time on screen now and again in this movie

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; for its lively and enthusiastic nature of fluently being able to live alone, moving on to essentially the next skit in conjunction with as I have already alluded to character developments that were and are good versions, but so much more importantly enthusiastic performances from the cast for a willingness to have an excellent sense of camaraderie to make this project the very best they can, if you're into old school comedy crime caper, you need to see this film once-in-a-lifetime, for a moment there is an ongoing seen underneath the closing credits and yes it does have some awards accredited to its name such as; 3 Nominees which include but not limited to BAFTA Awards 1966 BAFTA Film Award Best British Costume (Colour) Margaret Furse

 

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 by AverageMansReviews

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/transformation/disintegrating/shooting/disfigurement/electrocution/racism/medical. Even though in the UK this film has a PG rating, I would strongly recommend 12A, because of its to begin with elements of the dark nature, but in the final quarter more less than dark things are present until the end and just a little bit of extra advice; never seen this title into a device, because it will take it as a literal question and tell you the answer; so if it should happen that you have never seen this film, you may want to avoid doing this.

So who did it then?: In 1947 Los Angeles; a partially owned Disney performer; Roger Rabbit/other characters [voice by: Charles Fleischer:] he is a nice rabbit, but a bit of a dimwit that has allegedly shot and killed somebody, Judge Doom [Christopher Lloyd:] he is a ruthless Supreme County Judge of Toontown; that has created this substance known as Dip; the substance can kill all cartoons better known as toons, so you would like to get his hands on Rabbit to pass sentence and carry out justice, but there is only one person standing in the way of this possible outcome; Eddie Valiant [Bob Hoskins:] he is a private investigator that owns his own private investigation business; which is self-titled with his family last name twice; once to represent him and the other to represent his brother; which sadly was killed by a toon so Eddie uses drink to get through every day now.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script, the framework and pacing of this 104 minutes film isn't the most quickest, but it doesn't have to be based on the facts that we have a lot to experience, which throughout this content we will be covering at some point or another.

Art, comedy, action and character developments; throughout be it set designs, wardrobe and accessories; it is very fitting and very authentic to the time period of what this film is based in, but also simultaneously; we have the hand drawn, I will say that again the hand drawn/optical compositing through this project is absolutely massive and quite clearly beautiful; basically it gave the illusion of; live-action [which I guess it was in theory back then;] but this was extremely just about 1000 times better instead of computer animation of today's standards; because in this film you get a more genuine and authentic cohesion between our world and in this case the toon world and even though I'm not an expert I can take an educated guess that; producing animation like this would be so astronomically high that it just wouldn't be worth spending millions upon millions of dollars and then run the risk of it flopping at the box office.

We do have some iconic crossovers such as Disney; Donald Duck [voices by: Tony Anselmo/Clarence Nash] and Acme; Daffy Duck [voice by: Mel Blanc:] these two are a double act on two pianos and because individually they are known for being a hothead for the individual companies and clearly not wanting to share the limelight this performance quickly disintegrates into chaos where at one point you will see a old-fashioned pirate ship cannon with cannon ball being shot

later on Roger arrests Valiant to himself; but then Valiant angrily points out he doesn't have the keys for these handcuffs; after dealing with some unwanted guests looking for Rabbit; where Rabbit had to hide in the sink full of water where he was clearly struggling to hold his breath, they had to go somewhere to find this saw to get these handcuffs off; where halfway through Valiant was struggling on this makeshift table of sorts; so Rabbit just slipped out of these handcuffs to hold this makeshift table still; Valiant furiously asks; where just to cover my back I am paraphrasing this; " You could have done this at any time?" Rabbit responds with "Not until it becomes funny." Which on one hand he is right there; it is hilarious and not only that on the other hand it is a very intelligent/intellectually sound/integral character wrinkle to being a cartoon/toon character.

Character developments, performances and voice performances; the character developments are in-depth, coinciding with performances and voice performances of immaculate standard; the chemistry throughout the cast of every character is priceless; in particular the names I have mentioned in the storyline/script section, but I am absolutely furious that Hoskins didn't receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actor; I mean I'm not saying he should have won it, but nominations without question; considering putting this really nicely; he broke his mind for this role; he trained his brain to hallucinate where these characters were on screen, so much so he can stop, so he was told after completing this film to have 5 months off, but he did some recognition by positive awards in one way or another.

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; it showed or in my opinion it will forever be a film that you need to see once in your lifetime and a film that is a classic for everything about it; please keep in mind about my warning for those that are especially sensitive to violence, this film also has some awards accredited to its name such as 26 Winners Academy Awards, USA 1989 Oscar Best Film Editing Arthur Schmidt, Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing Charles L. Campbell Louis L. Edemann, Best Effects, Visual Effects Ken Ralston Richard Williams Ed Jones George Gibbs and  Special Achievement Award Richard Williams For animation direction and creation of the cartoon characters. 25 Nominees which also includes but not limited to returning this event/ceremony with Best Cinematography Dean Cundey, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Elliot Scott Peter Howitt, Best Sound Robert Knudson John Boyd Don Digiro lamo Tony Dawe

The Pink Panther 1963 by AverageMansReviews

The Pink Panther 1963 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/drugs/shooting/animal cruelty/vehicle crash

Meanwhile, meanwhile, meanwhile eventually: briefly; Inspector Jacques Clouseau [Peter Sellers:] he is a very clumsy French detective, is on the case to find out the identity of the individual known as The Phantom, all we know is whoever this individual is they are going for The Pink Panther diamond, oh yes he has brought his wife belonged to.

Generally speaking: the art; we get to meet the animated Pink Panther in the opening credits and right at the end where he appears in this real-life location; but he is still the animated version of himself; this is fantastic art for back in the day of 1963 and let's be honest; it is still holding up excellently in 2026 and it will be that way until the end of time; you see this kind of art and vision has a timeless quality to it and at some point we get a musical number this is also good.

The storyline/script holds well together, I can say the same for the framework and pacing of this 113 minutes film; where at the beginning we have this recurring joke of Meanwhile [then we go somewhere] repeat the cycle or much later on we had a split-screen of two characters dressed up in monkey costumes; looking inside this safe [one from the top end and the other from the bottom end hence split-screen and as things are not going too well at one point they break-the-fourth-wall and for a brief second or less they look right at the camera.] But there is a good section of this film where our lead lead character/lead role Inspector Clouseau/Sellers is not in this film and because of that; this film definitely suffers because of that, I mean don't get me wrong we have a staged fight and then a skiing mishap; but it just doesn't have the same kind of punch and on top of that when Inspector Clouseau/Sellers is back it does take some time to warm up again.

Character developments, comedy and action; Inspector Clouseau/Sellers; like I said earlier he is incredibly clumsy for some examples; in one scene we have one of these majestic very expensive looking globes that has its kind of standing nest to sit in; well it must have been greasy or something because our Inspector slides off it, falls to the floor and does this whole quickly get up and carry on as if there is nothing to see here thing, later on he breaks his violin and sometime later he has back repaired and he is under the great illusion he can play the violin expertly, which he can't; he plays it and it sounds like a squealing female cat in heat.

Somewhere around the final quarter; brief description of the next sequence; I believe that this old man is trying to cross the road or whatever it is; he gets stuck now and again between different vehicles and different characters dressed up in different costumes including may be walking as well; it is something like out of Mario Kart on an extreme budget; so this old man, decides to go back to where you once came from sit down on this chair and see some of the carnage/air some of the carnage until we have this massive crash and then this old man tried again to cross over to where he wants to go.

Character developments and performances; broadly speaking the character developments minus what I have already indicated are good versions of their character types, the performances are also a good reflection of those character types and finally for Inspector Clouseau/Sellers; we can already start to see and experience why Sellers was and is crucial to this role as this character, because you have to be really smart, to make this level of clumsiness this natural.

This film receives: 6/10, this film is good; as I have already made reference to it; this film wasn't quite the same even though Inspector Clouseau/Sellers came back I mean it obviously got better and better, but it is most definitely something they could have done without doing. This film also has some awards accredited to its name such as 5 Winners which include but not limited to Online Film & Television Association 2024 OFTA Film Hall of Fame Character Peter Sellers (Inspector Jacques Clouseau) and 9 Nominees which also include but not limited to Academy Awards, USA Oscar 1965 Best Music, Substantially Original Score Henry Mancini

 

 

Power Rangers Turbo [Season 1,] Episode 11: Weight and See by AverageMansReviews

Power Rangers Turbo [Season 1,] Episode 11: Weight and See by AverageMansReviews

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5 things about this episode

Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/other effects/transformation/body shaming/environmental

Find it yourself from within: Storyline, Character [Character developments,] Action and Art; Kat gets this lead position in this Angel Grove Ballet production; where in one way or another she gets body ashamed and decides to go without food; the monster for this episode shoots her with this beam option to make her weightless so we have Tommy and Tanya; this is a good little sequence together visually as well as from an excellent perspective

This episode receives: 8/10, this episode is excellent; it has quite a lot of good things going for it, such as bringing you the environment and what we know as by today's standards as body shaming, when you may just be fine as you are.

Insomnia 2002 by AverageMansReviews

Insomnia 2002 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/domestic violence/shooting/drugs/drowning/medical

Welcome to Nightmute, Alaska: briefly; there has been a murder and they have sent over LAPD Detective Will Dormer [Al Pacino:] he is vastly experienced at his job, but right now he has internal affairs checking in to him, he is also suffering from insomnia and he is not coming alone as he has his working partner with him as well.  Walter Finch [Robin Williams:] he lives around these parts, he is a writer, he is a suspect for the murder and he too suffers from insomnia

Generally speaking: the storyline/script is broadly speaking one of those excellently laid out ones where; heading towards somewhere, to investigate this situation and things slowly unravel from there, the framework and pacing of this 118 minutes long is solidly good to begin with, but as I will discuss later it does tremendously help when you have at this point in history; both heavyweight performers in this project in the form of Pacino and/or Williams

Action and art; we have our two adversaries trying to chase down one another on foot, so we can to this dangerous log sections [it is dangerous because one misstep and you are heading into the cold water underneath;] so this segment of this chasing sequence altogether is good; I would have been a bit more positive if we didn't see the stunt double clearly doing parts of it for LAPD Detective Dormer/Pacino [I should just saying that; this is no judgement on Pacino for using a stunt double; I'm just saying; maybe not give sequence of filmmaking away with clearly see that it isn't Pacino.]

Character developments and performances; predominantly on both counts there are solid versions of what they were going for here; Pacino leads this cast on his own for a hefty chunk of this project; which is likewise all good, but he does need Williams to essentially push against not only is a character not as a performer as well; so when Williams on any level comes into the project; he just liven things up to the next level; as his character is very much articulate, calculated, matter-of-fact, so in his mind accidents happen matter-of-fact end of story; this partnership on reflection is priceless because you have these two characters these two performers; coming from very different angles; one being from the streets, consequently justice needs to be served also there is without giving too much away an element of hypocrisy on his part, whilst as I have already indicated; it was an accident so by definition no punishment should be served; to reflect Williams' impact I have decided to award 2 extra marks, because he is simply put he is just next level in his all-round performance.

This film receives: 9/10, this film is excellent; I mean if you have never seen this film yet? You really need to see it because of Pacino and especially in particular Williams' performance and yes this film does have some awards accredited to its name such as 1 Winner in the form of; London Critics Circle Film Awards 2003 ALFS Award British Director of the Year Christopher Nolan and 11 Nominees which includes but not limited to Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) 2003 IOMA Best Actor (Miglior attore protagonista) Al Pacino and from the same award ceremony/event Best Supporting Actor (Miglior attore non protagonista) Robin Williams

 

In-depth Predictions/Other elements for WWE SummerSlam 2026: Night 2 by AverageMansReviews

In-depth Predictions/Other elements for WWE SummerSlam 2026: Night 2 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Calling It Out of: The Complete Horse Manure of the King of the Ring Tournaments 2026 Link  https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/07/calling-it-out-of-complete-horse-manure.html and then Average Extra of: THE Johnson Problem; Where does Dwayne Johnson go from here? Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/07/average-extra-of-johnson-problem-where.html

Warning: there will be some censored adult language references in this content such as now, is this really the best they can fudgin' do for one of your biggest events of the year? And they wonder why it; it has been difficult to sell the tickets for this weekend at best these are just feud progressions and that is it I feel sorry for any fan that has paid their good money for one or both days including everything transport and so on you deserve better.

The WWE Women's United States Champion Tiffany Stratton vs. Jade Cargill vs. Chelsea Green vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Giulia or Lash Legend; Five-Way Ladder Match for the Interim WWE Women's Championship: before I discuss this match/match slot, can I just ask what is the fudge point of having a women's mid-card and a women's tag team division when none of their titles are on the line at any point over this weekend at apparently one of your biggest events of the year? On top of that, people have criticised AEW for it using the option of Interim, but yet again as long as the WWE do it is absolutely fine; I have been watching wrestling since the late 1980s so trust me when I say they aren't going to be able to resist re-running anything to do with in this case; Champ Flair vs. Champ Ripley.

Danhausen vs. The Judgement Day's: the AAA Mega Champion Dominik Mysterio; Human Monies on a Pole Match The winner will keep the US$100,000 Danhausen stole from The Judgment Day: now if I was any woman on a woman's roster that isn't wrestling I would be extremely urinated off, because instead of giving them more of a presence on this card/weekend we get this steaming pile of manure instead, in fact the next time you want to criticise AEW and their women's divisions how about you look back in your own back yard? Yes from time to time broadly speaking it isn't brilliant, but at least on current form they are much better than the WWE by absolute miles.

Baron Corbin vs. Champ Trick Williams; Singles Match for the WWE Men's United States Championship: talking about this steaming pile of manure brings me onto this match, I really don't care about it, Corbin walks back into the WWE and interferes consequently he gets handed a championship opportunity, whilst, Carmelo Hayes is sitting in catering; you do realise that I don't see this match being completed, meaning disqualification or interference from Hayes; I mean the only positive that could come out of this match is putting Williams and Hayes back on the same page, because down in NXT together they were money.

Chad Gable vs. Champ Penta; Singles Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship: on paper this match is very fitting for this event and its calibre of match, I don't mean to be a dick head, but like the previous match slot I can see the WWE raising the middle finger to everyone by having The Vision getting involved and making a statement, but it isn't all bad hopefully we can get Rey Fénix back on TV consequently have the Lucha Brothers in the WWE.

Sami Zayn vs. The Judgement Day's: Finn Bálor; Singles Match to determine the #1 contender for the Undisputed WWE Championship: as far as I'm concerned this match shouldn't be happening, because we have Oba Femi sitting right there and for me this just please his embarrassment, I know they didn't want to put them in the main event picture just yet, I am absolutely fine with that, but then again the question is why put him in the King of the Ring Tournament then? This is so fudgin' stupid booking and either outcome does not interest me, I expect Judgement Day interference.

Seth Rollins vs. Champ The Bloodline's: Roman Reigns; for the WWE Men's World Heavyweight Championship: if I was you and if you are expecting a classic match, I would recommend adjusting your expectations, because maybe for the first 15 minutes it will be one-on-one, but I fully expect the jumbled mess interference from possibly in no particular order; The Bloodline, LA Knight, Solo Sikoa, Royce Keys, The Vision and finally maybe and I do stress may be Dwayne Johnson with the telling contribution which whoever he is this will pick up the W and yes I am fine aware he really isn't in any form of wrestling shape right now either.

In-depth Predictions/Other elements for WWE SummerSlam 2026: Night 1 by AverageMansReviews

In-depth Predictions/Other elements for WWE SummerSlam 2026 : Night 1 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Calling It Out of: The Complete Horse Manure of the King of the Ring Tournaments 2026 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/07/calling-it-out-of-complete-horse-manure.html

Warning: there will be some censored adult language references in this content such as now, this is meant to be the party of the summer and personally I couldn't be more fudgin' less interested.

The Bella Twins': Nikki, Brie Bella & Paige vs. Fatal Influence's: Jacy Jayne, the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Lainey Reid & Fallon Henley; Six-Woman Tag Team Match: this is horse manure they may as well bring back Bra & Panty Matches or do something different Tampons on a Pole Match, because as I have just referenced this is meant to be party of the summer right? So why the hell are these championships not on the line in a three birds stipulation; which basically means for the younger generations broadly speaking any member of a group can defend these championships, but we all know that some point the twins are going to turn on Paige or vice versa at some point, probably after this match.

Walter vs. Nick Aldis; Singles Match: this is nothing against Aldis, but what the hell have they done with Walter? I mean he has gone from the main event to this... I mean let's be honest with one another if AEW did anything like this you would be all over the Internet criticising Tony Khan, but the vast majority of you are letting it slide because it is Big Popper H.

LA Knight, Solo Sikoa & Royce Keys vs. The Bloodline's: Jacob Fatu, The Uso's: Jey & Jimmy Uso; Six-Man Tag Team Match: Boring! Having the same stipulation on the same card just changing the genders is boring apart from anything to do with Survivor Series and anything to do with The Bloodline or/and MFT just bores me and it has done for years, but I do expect Talla Tonga to save Sikoa from this beat down after the match and does this whole cleaning house thing

Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar; Hell In A Cell Match: I just don't care let's just move on shall we, because this match should not be taking place here, I will discuss this more later on.

Queen Sky vs. Champ The Judgement Day's: Liv Morgan [with the WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion Raquel Rodriguez;] Singles Match for the WWE Women's World Championship: is it me or have they not at all or I will give myself a little bit of wiggle room and say very little build this match? Because I keep my ear to the Internet and I have heard nothing about it? So based on that my question is... why should I care about this match if the WWE hierarchy doesn't either? So I fully expect The Judgement Day to get involved at one point or another. Additional; the WWE have done so well building up this Women's Intercontinental Championship, that I didn't even know she was champion when this content originally went up.

Cody Rhodes vs. Champ CM Punk; Singles Match for the Undisputed WWE Championship: Surprise surprise I have no interest in seeing this match, nothing is going to drastically change after the event we will still be in this feud, what should have happened is this... King Femi vs. Champ CM Punk for his championship and have Rhodes as the Special Guest Referee and yes if you are old enough I am basically saying; re-run WWF/WWE SummerSlam 1997: Bret Hart vs. Champ The Undertaker with his championship on the line; with Shawn Michaels was the special guest referee. Had Hart lost, he would have never been able to wrestle in the United States again. Additionally, had Michaels shown any bias towards either competitor, he too would have never been able to wrestle in the United States again; but slightly adapted to cater to this particular situation where if Punk or Rhodes did anything to break the rules or aid King Femi; they could never challenge again for the Undisputed WWE Championship. But back in reality; I really don’t care about this in the slightest Rhodes Babyface or Heel or Punk the same I just don’t care what they do really.