Pink Panther Strikes Again (Blu-ray) ***Preorder*** 12/30

Peter Sellers strikes comedic gold in his fourth Pink Panther movie with director/producer/co-writer Blake Edwards, generating a torrent of laughter as the lovably inept detective Jacques Clouseau, now promoted to Chief Inspector. But Clouseau has no time to “rust assured” on his laurels since his mad longtime boss, “former Chief Inspector!” Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), has escaped from an insane asylum to a sinister lair and commissioned a doomsday device. Holding the world to ransom, Dreyfus places a bounty on Clouseau’s confused head — which cues a slew of international assassins setting off to slay the oblivious French detective, as he stumbles around the globe after Dreyfus. From its hysterical pre-credits sequence to the witty animated opening credits with the cartoon Pink Panther tributing movie legends to the outrageous climax accompanied by Tom Jones (and also Clouseau!) performing the Oscar-nominated song “Come to Me,” The Pink Panther Strikes Again hits deliriously funny heights in screen comedy.