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Features: DVD, Keep Case, Full Picture Aspect Ratio, Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Notes, Biographies, Film Highlights, Parental Controls
Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Academy Award-winner Kevin Kline follow their smash hit "A Fish Called Wanda" with another hilarious farce which Jeffrey Lyons of WNBC-TV, New York, Calls "a very funny picture." A quaint English zoo is the setting for a riotous revolt after the zoo director attempts to rid the park of its cute, cuddly animals and display only "fierce creatures."
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Full Frame - 1.33 |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 12/26/2006 |
| Running Time: 94 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 20144 | | UPC: 00025192014420 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
''...[A] spirited cast..." 01/24/1997 p.3DNew York Times
"...[The film] shows a fine, satirical appreciation for the real laws of the jungle....[A] giddy, enjoyably silly farce..." 01/24/1997 p.C5 |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Cinematography |  4 | | Plot | 4 | | Acting |  5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 A Fitting Reunion Tuesday, January 04, 2000
A Viewer from Bourne Massacussettes
The cast of the hilarious 'A Fish Called Wanda' are re-assembled for this fitting comedy. Though the actors, often under rated, are back they play a new crew of characters in a very good movie. Though, not as tickling or perhaps not even as original as it's predicessor this movie is a fantastic film for fans of the Fish.
John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, and Jamie Lee Curtis play quirky characters who work at a fiscally challenged zoo recently bought by a multi-millionaire (also Kline in a dual role as father and son), together they try to transform the zoo into returning an amazing revenue. A great movie, all in all--especially for fans of these actors. Was this review helpful?  
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