A Fish Called Wanda Blu- ray. Watch Small Crimes HD 1080P. Ealing groovy. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, July 1.

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Warner Brothers with the 1. Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer with the glossy Technicolor musical, even those connections are only. Strangely, it's the British. Hammer and horror.

Also in the English mix is the delightful Ealing. Studios, actually the oldest continually working film studio in the world.

While Ealing, like virtually any major studio, released its share of other. World War II era, films that include such legendary. Watch I, Frankenstein Youtube more. Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob. One of Ealing's most accomplished.

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Charles Crichton, helmer of The Lavender Hill Mob as well as a couple of handfuls of other very well remembered comedies. It's absolutely no wonder, then, that John Cleese coaxed Crichton out of retirement to co- author and directorially take on what was supposed to be.

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British comedy, A Fish Called Wanda, a film which has certain similarities to The Lavender Hill Mob, but which. Ealing tropes. A disparate band of misfits is thrown together into a series of increasingly. Cleese co- . wrote A Fish Called Wanda, bringing his brilliantly dry wit to bear on a basic caper comedy which quickly becomes a farce of role playing. A Fish Called Wanda was a surprise international sensation when it.

Kevin Kline a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and his co- star Michael Palin its English counterpart, a BAFTA Award. The film is filled to the brim with brilliant performances, but most of all, it's a very smart comedy, as befits its iconic author and star. Cleese and Crichton throw caution to the wind almost right off the bat and defy expectations by actually having a successful jewel heist take place.

Typically caper comedies build up to the actual caper, establishing character and then showing a. But in Cleese and Crichton's shorthand version, we get. Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a seductive vamp who is playing just about everyone she sees. Big Kahuna, George (Tom Georgeson), as well as her ostensible boyfriend Otto (Kevin Kline), whom she is attempting to pass. Also along for the ride is the stutter afflicted animal rights activist Ken (Michael Palin), a sweet, good natured soul who takes an.

Otto. After getting a surprisingly brisk introduction to these crazy characters, we witness a more or less perfectly. And that's when Cleese and Crichton's true comedic genius kicks in, for the rest of the film is a. Feydeau, as a series of backstabbings, role playing and misperceptions adds up to one of the giddiest film experiences of the past.

For those who haven't yet seen A Fish Called Wanda, it's really not fair to spoil the fun, other than to also state that John Cleese plays. Archie Leach (Cleese thought no one would get the Cary Grant reference), appointed to defend George once he's (rather quickly). Wanda quickly sets her sights on, leading to a whole cascading series of marital misunderstandings with Archie's. Wendy (Maria Aitken). Aside from Wanda and Otto desperately attempting to find where George had secreted the diamonds. Ken attempting to murder a neighborhood elderly woman who.

George making his getaway after the heist. Suffice it to say that Ken's assassination attempts go horribly (as in horribly) awry. This is about as pitch perfect a farce as has made it to the screen, certainly equal in its own way to the Ealing classics of the late 1. This is comedy almost completely based in character, albeit characters who find themselves in one hilarious predicament after another. Cleese and Crichton brilliantly ping pong back and forth between simultaneously unfolding storylines, adding punchline to punchline until most. A Fish Called Wanda). But sprinkled throughout this laugh out loud tour de force are impeccable little character bits for.

Kline's incredible athleticism and Palin's hopeless stuttering at the head of the pack. Cleese and Curtis are really. Kline and Palin, but the four together are arguably the funniest quartet from 1. It's rather fascinating to hear Cleese's excellent commentary, where he goes into some detail about which jokes "landed" differently for British and. American audiences. While there is something indisputably veddy, veddy British about A Fish Called Wanda, especially with its. Years ago when this film was originally released, I was somewhat shocked to find out my Mother absolutely loved the film.

I had thought (mistakenly it turned out) that the film's frequent profanities and especially the ubiquitous use of the "F- bomb" would have turned. Mother's general temperament, but she not only told me how much she adored the film, she started laughing uncontrollably as. That is a testament to fine comedy writing, something.

A Fish Called Wanda also benefits from an incredibly complex yet relatively easy to follow plot, one which is so twisty and turny that. My wife holds A Fish Called Wanda as one of her two or three most favorite films, and.

Just to prove there's no logic in the world, day and date release (and Wal- mart exclusive) A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World boasts one of the most. Blu- ray to come down the pike in years. A Fish Called Wanda. Now to be fair, there.

First of all, Mad, Mad World was a big budget epic filmed in a wide format, and a 6. BD release. A Fish Called Wanda, on the other hand.

World), filmed in a smaller format to begin with, and it frankly has never been a "beautiful" film. That said, this is a pretty shoddy looking transfer of a less than stellar print. Encoded via AVC, in. A Fish Called Wanda looks tired and drab at least some of the time, with a really appalling number of dots, splotches. Occasionally things improve slightly to the point where we at least exceed the typical.

DVD, but this is easily the most lackluster catalog title we've had recently courtesy of Fox and MGM.

Fierce Creatures (1. IMDb. Edit. Storyline. Watch X-Men: Days Of Future Past Online Earnthenecklace. A massive corporate conglomerate, Octopus Inc., run by a shrewd and cruel tycoon named Rod Mc. Cain, purchases a UK- based leisure company, and also the failing London Marwood Zoo. To bring more business to the zoo, Octopus hires a new manager, Rollo Lee, who promptly comes up with a way to increase profits- do away with all the animals except for the ferocious ones.

This new Fierce Creatures Policy shocks the Marwood zookeepers, led by the unendingly talkative Adrian "Bugsy" Malone. Eventually, Rod Mc. Cain's son Vince, along with the up- and- coming business executive Willa Weston, take control of the zoo and revoke the Fierce Creatures Policy.

Vince instead comes up with many under- handed and vicious schemes to attract customers- unauthorized celebrity endorsements, shoddy, overpriced zoo merchandise, and using robotic animals instead of real ones. However, Vince is also stealing from the zoo's funds, and when his father finds out, he rears to turn the zoo into a Japanese- owned golf course.. Written by. Josh Martin < jmartin@netarrant. Plot Summary Add Synopsis. Taglines. Don't pet them. Edit. Did You Know? Trivia. The theatrical trailer opens with the statement 'The following preview has not been tested on animals'.

The main cast is introduced as 'Oscar winner' Kevin Kline; John 'Absolutely no chance of an Oscar' Cleese, Jamie Lee 'My mom & dad almost got an Oscar' Curtis and Michael 'I know someone called Oscar' Palin. The trailer ends with a clip from the deleted ending in which Kline's character Vince Mc.

Cain is hit in the groin by a charging rhino and send flying. See more ». The foam in Vince's champagne glass when he pours it and drinks it. See more ». Quotes. Rollo Lee. I think the whole Octopus philosophy is poison. The only aim of any and every Mc. Cain business is to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire *another* business to downsize, etc., etc., without ever running a single one of them really well. And if anyone ever raises the question of quality, they're immediately attacked as an elitist, because at Octopus it's considered morally offensive to ..

Crazy Credits. No animals were injured during the making of this movie, only humans. See more ». Connections. References A Fish Called Wanda (1. See more ». Soundtracks. Written and performed by Bruce Springsteen.