When "A Fish Called Wanda" came out, the movie was smash success. It was a silly little movie, with a great cast, made for little money but it made a huge profit and earned Kevin Kline a deserved "Best Supporting Actor" nomination.
So with this team of talented actors who had genuine chemistry with each other, it was thought to put them together in another movie. Enter "Fierce Creatures" a movie that shows you can't always recapture the magic.
That's not to say the movie is bad. Far from it. It's pretty funny but it's not the gut-wrenchingly funny movie that "A Fish Called Wanda" was. The actors are great, they work well together but the script just seems flat.
One amusing little bit is that again John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis wind up as lovers as they did in their previous movie. And it's a bit of a callback when John calls her character "Wanda" before he's corrected. Unfortunately while that seemed to be an ad-lib from John, it just came too little too late.
So with this team of talented actors who had genuine chemistry with each other, it was thought to put them together in another movie. Enter "Fierce Creatures" a movie that shows you can't always recapture the magic.
That's not to say the movie is bad. Far from it. It's pretty funny but it's not the gut-wrenchingly funny movie that "A Fish Called Wanda" was. The actors are great, they work well together but the script just seems flat.
One amusing little bit is that again John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis wind up as lovers as they did in their previous movie. And it's a bit of a callback when John calls her character "Wanda" before he's corrected. Unfortunately while that seemed to be an ad-lib from John, it just came too little too late.