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Reviewed by gavin6942 7 / 10

Pretty Good, Maybe Not As Funny As It Wants to Be

In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to double-cross each other for the loot.This film's genesis begins way back in the 1960s, when writer John Cleese and director Charles Crichton met and even (unsuccessfully) proposed a comedy film... the steamroller gag allegedly gestated all that time. By the 1980s, both Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis had helped on early drafts to make it more American (Cleese modestly suggests that 13 different people perfected the dialogue). Kline and Cleese had been acquainted since "Silverado".What bothers me right off the bat is this idea that Jamie Lee Curtis is attractive and can lure people. This was not the first film where she was used in this way, and certainly not the last ("True Lies"). But it is confounding, because she really is just not the sort of person you expect to be the "sexy woman" in Hollywood films. This is not meant as any disrespect to Curtis, but her strong point is not her physicality.That nitpick aside, this was a nice film from some of the Monty Python folks (John Cleese, Michael Palin). Interestingly, neither one of them stole the show -- that honor goes to Kevin Kline as Otto. Maybe I am mistaken, but I always got the impression Kline lingered just below the A-list and just above the B-list, and no one knew what to do with him. A shame. He is a real talent, with an incredible comedic skill. Appropriately, this film landed him an Oscar. According to Cleese, Kline was different on each take, and invented his physicality on the fly (which drove the editor bonkers).For those looking for other Python connections beyond Cleese and Palin, they are there if you dig hard enough. Costume designer Hazel Pethig had been with them since 1969, practically another member. Assistant director David Skynner is the child of Robin Skynner, who co-wrote "Families and How to Survive Them" (1983) with Cleese. And you may recognize actor Andrew MacLachlan from wither "Life of Brian" or "meaning of Life".The film's quasi-sequel, "Fierce Creatures" (1997) also starred Cleese, Kline, Curtis and Palin, but was as big a bomb (both commercially and with audiences and critics) as "Wanda" was successful. On the other hand, some have alleged that the success of "Wanda" opened the door for other British-American films such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral", so perhaps it had other quasi-quasi-sequels that carried the torch.The Arrow Video Blu-ray is a full house, aces high. Beyond the brand-new 4K restoration from the original negative, there is commentary by John Cleese; brand-new appreciation by Vic Pratt of the BFI National Archive; brand-new interviews with composer John DuPrez, production designer Roger Murray-Leach, executive producer Steve Abbott and makeup supervisor Paul Engelen; "John Cleese's Final Farewell Performance", a 1988 documentary on the making of the film; "Something Fishy", a 15th anniversary retrospective documentary; "Fish You Were Here", a documentary on the film's locations hosted by Robert Powell; 24 deleted/alternative scenes with introductions by Cleese; "A Message from John Cleese", a tongue-in-cheek introduction; and more!

Reviewed by dbdumonteil 8 / 10

there's always someone cleverer than you...

Charles Crichton may have 78 years old, when he made this movie, it didn't prevent him from making a lively, successful and above all funny. The making is dynamic and inventive. But the main strength of the movie is the screenplay. It's certainly a bit vulgar but it's very strong, inspired and full of little details which kick the bull's eye. Let's add that it contains also unexpected reversals of situation. This, in order to start again the attention and to put forward the characters' cupidity and egoism towards the loot. The best example are the moments when Otto and Wanda are denouncing Georges to the police to take advantage of the loot; but they don't know where the loot is. The other moment is during the trial when Cleese's calling involuntarily Wanda "darling". He's betraying his wife and provoking Georges' anger... Above all, it's impossible to neglect the humour of the movie. It's black, caustic and a bit devastating. The greatest moments are: the liquidation of the old lady's dogs. Besides, these dogs are really pieces of junk when they're barking. Otto who becomes an executioner near the end of the movie when he's devouring Ken's fishes so as to make him tell the truth about the diamonds. At last, the actors are irresistible, especially Kevin Kline (he won an oscar for his performance in 1989), fervent admirer of Nietzche's philosophy, Michael Palin, an old and stammerer boy who loves animals.At the end, not any injuries time and a comedy held up by outstanding actors.

Reviewed by bigverybadtom 6 / 10

Funny In Parts, But Hardly A Classic

The movie was created as a hybrid of 1940-1950's Ealing comedy and later Monty Python-type silliness. The combination didn't quite work as intended.I went to see it in the theater because of all the praise the movie got, but when I saw it, it had some laughs but it was less funny than I had come to expect. The movie's main joke is about the culture clash between the loud, overaggressive Americans versus the over-mannered, comatose Britons, but the stereotypes are so exaggerated they are more irritating than funny.The movie is somewhat redeemed by the scenes with Cleese and Curtis, but the other leads resort to overacting, which in itself is not very funny. As a crime drama, it's not particularly clever either. I was glad to see it once, but I wouldn't bother again.

A Fish Called Wanda

1988

Action / Comedy / Crime

A Fish Called Wanda

1988

Action / Comedy / Crime

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Pretty Good, Maybe Not As Funny As It Wants to Be

there's always someone cleverer than you...

Funny In Parts, But Hardly A Classic

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