A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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.

Maybe this movie gets better after the 20 minute mark, but somehow I doubt that. This movie is very boring. The acting is bad, and nothing happens. I didn't finish watching this movie, but there is nothing that made me even remotely interested in this movie. I would not recommend this movie.

In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot. A Fish Called Wanda is one of those films that i expected to like and i really wanted to be honest especially when Jamie Lee Curtis stars who in my opinion is one of the best actors from this film especially her work in Halloween and True Lies was fantastic but in here not even her looks can save this. John Cleese and Kevin Kline are also pretty horrible too with many of their lines or the comedic lines as i should call them were boring and unfunny. The characters are thin ad feel like they were written on foot and the jokes were stupid as hell. It's like Mr.Bean but not funny in any way at all. Such a disappointing movie. (2/10)

Making a truly great comedy is one of the hardest things to do in all film history.Really, how many truly "great" comedies have been made in the last 100 years?Well, "A Fish Called Wanda" qualifies as a comedy legend.Kevin Kline won an Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor" in 1989 for his role in "Wanda"...something that is virtually unheard of...and for a "foreign" film no less.This movie is filled with more hysterically funny lines and sight gags than I could possibly count.If you've read other reviews, they've provided some spoilers.If YOU haven't seen this movie yet, buy / rent it on DVD or Blu-Ray, or watch it on the 'net.DO NOT watch the edited version, because you need to hear ALL of the funny dialogue that makes this movie the classic it is.If you don't have a highly sophisticated funny bone, don't like foul language, making fun of someone with a speech impediment, or "animal cruelty" (done strictly for gut-busting laughs), or have young children you want to share this with, then avoid watching it, because you will NOT enjoy this masterpiece of a comedy. Regardless of my less-than-stellar review, just don't call me stupid!