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Fierce Creatures
1997
This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English zoo keeper (John Cleese) whose .. Read more
| Starring | John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin |
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| Director | Robert Young, Fred Schepisi |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Fierce Creatures
This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English zoo keeper (John Cleese) whose demesne is threatened by a tightfisted down sizing Australian media mogul, Vince McCain (Kevin Kline). A visit by the mogul's bumbling son, Rod McCain (Kevin Kline again) prompts a rash of changes at the zoo, including the order that the animals be made more fierce. In an effort to attract a huge parade of visitors the corporate moguls want to create a theme park atmosphere with only violent animals on display. In protest, the liberal zoo keepers fight back in a hilarious effort to prove the ferocious temperament of animals like the meerkat, deemed the 'piranhas of the desert'. When Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis), a hard-nosed marketing genius, is sent to the zoo to look after the operation she is forced to look after Rod, as he creates marketing mayhem, with false celebrity sponsors, Disneyland-like costumes for the zoo keepers and advertisements run amok. As Willa spends more time around the downtrodden zoo keepers and their fearless leader, she realizes that the McCain empire must be stopped, coming up with a delirious plan to quell the media moguls and take back the zoo.
| Starring | John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay, Ronnie Corbett, Carey Lowell |
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| Director | Robert Young, Fred Schepisi |
| Studio | 4 FRONT VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Rom-Coms |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Norwegian, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2003 Production year: 1997 |
| Format | DVD |
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John Cleese reassembled the team from A Fish Called Wanda (including Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Palin) for this soft-hearted caper. Cleese plays the new manager appointed by an Australian media mogul to jazz up a local menagerie by adopting a “fierce creatures only” policy. Fearing for the future of the zoo and reluctant to change, his keepers hatch a plan to promote their fluffy little favourites as maneaters. Sadly, this follow-up lacks the magic of the original, and, despite the valiant efforts of a host of familiar faces, that vital spark is largely missing.
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Not a sequel, but a belated reunion for Cleese and his co-stars from A Fish Called Wanda, and as strained as such... read more on Time Out
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Fierce Creatures Review
This film was a nice idea, but a bit of a let down after, ‘A Fish Called Wanda’.
Still the acting from the leads of the cast was of the highest standard.
For ‘Python’ fans, a rare treat to have some of the old magic back.
If you want a laugh and don’t want anything too complex or heavy to watch, this film is a must. It has some very funny scenes, with ‘John Cleese’ stealing most of them. -
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Fierce Creatures Review
This film was a nice idea, but a bit of a let down after, ‘A Fish Called Wanda’.
Still the acting from the leads of the cast was of the highest standard.
For ‘Python’ fans, a rare treat to have some of the old magic back.
If you want a laugh and don’t want anything too complex or heavy to watch, this film is a must. It has some very funny scenes, with ‘John Cleese’ stealing most of them. -
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