Just perfect...

Great Film overall

best movie i've ever seen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A Fish Called Wanda caught everybody by surprise. It was a low budget, silly English comedy that just exploded in popularity and has gone down as one of the great comedies of all time. The makers managed to capture literal lightning in a bottle that they have never been able to recreate. Years later when they got the same crew together for "Fierce Creatures" it just wasn't the same. In it we have Michael Palin, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline playing a group of jewel thieves and how they're all backstabbing each other to get the loot to themselves. When the fourth member of their crew gets captured, thanks to an anonymous tip by Kevin Kline, it's John Cleese as the barrister who supposed to defend him in court.What follows is a series of events where the only witness to the crime is targeted for murder only to have her pets doe one by one. John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis wind up falling for each other. And Kevin Kline winds up stealing the show as the oversexed killer who misinterprets philosophy and thinks that killing is okay. He won the Oscar for best supporting actor for that role and he totally deserved it .It's one of those movies that you really need to see if you haven't already.

Definitely worth watching!! This Film comes from a period, when Movies were actually Laugh Out Loud Funny!!! The entire cast works beautifully together. Jamie Lee Curtis is so Sexy and so Perfect in this role! John Cleese is a constant entertaining Laugh!!! If only they made Movies this Hilarious now.......But they don't!!! I was 11 when this film was released. And first saw it when I was 18. Since then, I've watched it every year!!! And still, Laugh my Ass Off!!!Perfect date night, or Solo day/night movie. It only gets Funnier!

Set in London four thieves have planned a diamond heist; they are Englishmen Ken and George and American 'brother and sister' Otto and Wendy. The heist is a success but then Otto and Wendy turn on the others by reporting George to the police; unfortunately for them he has moved the jewels to a safety deposit box and given the key to Ken. Now the serous plotting begins; Ken is tasked with eliminating a key witness against George while Wendy attempts to seduce his barrister to try to learn if Georges has mentioned the location of the jewels… Otto just makes everything worse.This '80s comedy is as funny as every despite being almost thirty years old… some humour, like sticking chips up somebody's nose, doesn't go out of style. The story is relatively simple; for the most part the humour comes from the great characters. Kevin Kline is hilarious as the terminally stupid Otto; a man who thinks he is an intellectual and almost guarantees that their plans fail. Michael Palin is on great form as the stuttering Ken; an animal lover who keeps accidentally killing his target's terriers. His fellow Python John Cleese really impresses as Archie Leach, the initially stuffy barrister who falls for Wendy, played by the excellent Jamie Lee Curtis. The humour is varied so if one gag doesn't amuse you the next probably will… although I suspect most of them will amuse most viewers. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to any adult wanting a good laugh; some of the content means it isn't really suitable for younger viewers.

Having enjoyed Cleese's work and been a fan of Jamie Lee Curtis for years, but somehow always missed this, I was looking forward to seeing it at last. What a disappointment. Main drawback was the pathetic Palin and oafish, aggressive, Kevin Kline characters, neither of whom seemed remotely funny. I enjoyed much more Cleese's previous film, CLOCKWISE, a charming and clever comedy which survives repeated viewings, but which he considered too parochial in its appeal.Cleese seems to be obsessed by how he is perceived by Americans, perhaps because he is himself something of a self-conscious stereotype of some Americans' notion of a 'British' male - in reality, a certain type of upper middle-class Englishman. WALDORF SALAD was one of the funniest and superbly written episodes of FAWLTY TOWERS, with the clash between Basil and the brash American highlighting brilliantly Basil's snobbery, chauvinism, idleness, pomposity and incompetence, as well as the general reluctance of the native middle-class to complain, in the face of poor service and lack of value for money. In contrast, the moronic, armpit-sniffing, Kline character signified nothing, being the kind of cretin found on both sides of the pond, whom nowadays would be online, swapping uninformed, pseudonymous, abuse with each other, over the likes of socialism or gun-control. As for Palin's role, I find his notorious political namesake is usually more entertaining. The business with Patricia Hayes and the dogs is often regarded as a highpoint, but would have been scorned had Benny Hill done it. Over all, I thought this a vastly overrated and generally unlikeable film.