My Age: 13
A cruel tycoon, Rod McKain, played by Kevin Kline, purchases a zoo which isn't profiting enough. He hires a new manager, Rollo Lee, played by John Cleese, who has an idea about how to raise the profits - get rid of all the animals except for the fierce ones - which satisfies the people's violent minds. Naturally, the animal holders at the zoo, led by Adrian "Bugsy" Malone, played by Michael Palin, are horrified by this. Soon, Rod McKain's son Vince, also played by Kline, and Willa Weston, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, take control and return the zoo to normal. Vince comes up with some zany ways of bringing in profits - unauthorized celebrity endorsements, animatronic animals - he is also stealing, and his father threatens to turn the zoo into a Japanese golf resort.
Fierce Creatures is often quite irritating, for example Rod McKain and Adrian "Bugsy" Malone's voices, and also quite often has some stupid plot points, for example Willa Weston's "contact" with the gorilla, but the film is also quite often funny, for example Vince McKain's perception of Rollo Lee's bed habits. Overall, I think the funny parts overwhelm the stupid and irritating parts, and I must admit that I enjoyed the film's hilarious finale quite a lot.
Australian Classification: M 15+: Low Level Coarse Language, Sexual References
Rating: 69 out of 100
A cruel tycoon, Rod McKain, played by Kevin Kline, purchases a zoo which isn't profiting enough. He hires a new manager, Rollo Lee, played by John Cleese, who has an idea about how to raise the profits - get rid of all the animals except for the fierce ones - which satisfies the people's violent minds. Naturally, the animal holders at the zoo, led by Adrian "Bugsy" Malone, played by Michael Palin, are horrified by this. Soon, Rod McKain's son Vince, also played by Kline, and Willa Weston, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, take control and return the zoo to normal. Vince comes up with some zany ways of bringing in profits - unauthorized celebrity endorsements, animatronic animals - he is also stealing, and his father threatens to turn the zoo into a Japanese golf resort.
Fierce Creatures is often quite irritating, for example Rod McKain and Adrian "Bugsy" Malone's voices, and also quite often has some stupid plot points, for example Willa Weston's "contact" with the gorilla, but the film is also quite often funny, for example Vince McKain's perception of Rollo Lee's bed habits. Overall, I think the funny parts overwhelm the stupid and irritating parts, and I must admit that I enjoyed the film's hilarious finale quite a lot.
Australian Classification: M 15+: Low Level Coarse Language, Sexual References
Rating: 69 out of 100