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| A Fish Called Wanda | 
 enlarge | Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 2632
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 108
ASIN: B000VHXBIU
Theatrical Release Date: July 15, 1988
Release Date: August 27, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Funny film-POOR 1ST DVD PACKAGE THOUGH February 20, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have always thought this film was very funny. Basically the end of Jamie Lee Curtis & Kevin Kline's careers. NEVER had another hit film either of them.
This is a film that needed an updated DVD package. No extras at all. Won an Oscar for Kline & was a hit but this package has NO extras. Glad a n updated DVD package is always available.
"Don't call me stupid".
My rating is for the film not for the bare nothing special DVD package.
Extras, where are the extras?
I never liked Palin's character Ken.
Does have both wide screen & stand versions of the film depending on what you prefer.
Does have a good brochure with film information plus chapter search list.
Fish called Wanda November 22, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kevin Cline at his best. I just love this movie for a host of reasons. For anyone that loved the Monty Python humour. John Clesse is great and so is Michael Palin. Just loved this film.
 Wonderful throwback to the Ealing comedies, and a wonderfully crafted film... November 21, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is probably Cleese's best work, post-Python and post-Fawlty Towers. It's still hilarious today, and it has something that most modern comedies don't even come close too...consistency. Almost every joke works. There isn't a dull moment in the entire film. It is meticulously done by John Cleese and Charles Cricton. Cleese wrote the screenplay, and Crichton directed it. Crichton is best known for the great Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob (which is a wonderful film starring Alec Guiness). I really like the digs that Cleese gets at the expense of Otto, here portrayed brilliantly by Kevin Kline. Kline is so reminiscent of the pseudo-intellectual babbling that permeates many parts of our society today. The scene where Wanda (Jaime Curtis) berates him for pissing off Archie Leach (Cleese's character, and Cary Grant's real name) is my favorite scene in the film. Jamie says the line "apes do read philosophy, Otto, they just don't understand it". Many read, many watch art films, important films, read big books, but don't understand a damn thing. But Otto is so naturally stupid that his pseudo-intellectualism is funnier.
All of the players here are excellent. Kline won a best supporting actor Oscar for his role (one of the few times a comedic performance won), and Palin is wonderful as K-K-K Ken (as Otto affectionately calls him), the killer who loves animals. The film gets a bit nasty, but then it's British, so this is to be expected. This film, despite a modern setting, is really reminiscent of Crichton's Ealing comedies, and I think that's what makes it very funny and special. There's a real craft at work here, and it makes all modern comedies look like amateur theatrics.
*Fishy?* October 17, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I haven't been able to watch my newest DVD... it arrived quickly and was packaged nicely (don't ya just love 'bubble envelopes'?)! Thanks Amazon!
Mean-spirited, Crude, Vulgar, and Unkind to Animals August 19, 2007
The characters in this film are despicable, back-stabbing, liars. One is a manipulative vixen who'll use sex to get what she wants. One is a hit-man who loves animals but is perfectly willing to kill an old lady. One is the ultimate "ugly American" who is ultra-"stupid", vulgar, and in love with himself. Finally, there is the respectable British lawyer who takes all but 2 seconds to decide to throw away his marriage and go after the young temptress.
Oh, by the way, I absolutely love this movie. Kevin Kline incredibly, manages to steal the comic thunder from the two veteran Monty Python players. It's really too bad that they never made another movie with Kline's Otto character.
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