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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe picture is filled with one sight gag after another, many familiar to anyone old enough to remember the glory days of silent comedy.
- 80EmpireEmpireUnlike in The Pink Panther, Clouseau was the real star here.
- 80The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe whole thing is colorful, gay — and Henry Mancini's music is as sassy and frivolous as the film.
- Elke Sommer is good as the devious maid Maria Gambrelli but it is Sellers who steals the show as the inept detective fumbling and bumbling his way around solving murder mysteries.
- 40IGNIGNUltimately, A Shot in the Dark is not superior to The Pink Panther, as many have suggested, but a somewhat predictably derivative sequel that maintains its predecessor's form but not substance.