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| A Fish Called Wanda | 
 enlarge | Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  124 reviews
Sales Rank: 1314
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 108
ASIN: B000VHXBIU
Theatrical Release Date: July 15, 1988
Release Date: November 3, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 FUNNIEST FILM EVER ! October 25, 2006
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
My favorite image in this film has to do with the outrage on the face of the woman (whose family catches John Cleese undressing) when he uses her photograph to "cover himself". The death (and burial) of each doggie will have you laughing progressively more. My only question has to do whether this DVD needs a double dip. Is a new edition going to make it even funnier ?. At any rate, the extras look rather good which should help you make up your mind on whether to buy this edition.
I'd Like Another Helping of Fish September 20, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am delighted to say that I, also, got an accidental copy of the Deluxe Edition before the release date was pushed back. I am even more delighted to say that "A Fish Called Wanda" has finally gotten the special attention it so greatly deserves. A masterpiece of hilarity, "Fish" is one of the rare films that managed to be wonderfully mean spirited (in the best way possible), truly subversive for a mainstream movie, and utterly hysterical. The fact that it was a commerical success amazes me to this day. Add to that, an Oscar for Kevin Kline--and I have to confess that Hollywood sometimes gets it right.
If you haven't seen the film in a while, you're in for a treat. It's as good as you remember--smart and clever--it takes it's comedy seriously. It's fast, furious and takes no prisoners. And it never dumbs itself down like so many "comedies".
John Cleese is awesome in his best leading performance. Michael Palin takes a character that would be a PC nightmare in the age of family-friendly homogenization and mines comic gold. Kevin Kline--let's just say the Academy Award says everything it needs to. And Jamie Lee Curtis is brilliant. She is so underrated as an actress, but every few years connects so vividly--"Fish", "True Lies" and "Freaky Friday" most noticably.
You know any commentary by Cleese is going to be a winner. Add the deleted scenes, featurettes, and other Cleese clips--and this is a tremendous find for fans of the movie. I just hope you enjoy it as much as I did! KGHarris, 9/06.
Otto, wir lieben dich! And you too, Archie! September 17, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I don't know a funnier movie, and certainly no other one that gets better after the fifth time.
Kevin Kline is the greatest, I didn't even know him as a clown before. From John Cleese we wouldn't have expected anything else. Don't forget Wanda, of course. I mean the fish.
Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis are an American gangster couple in London, who are involved in a heist gone sour and who try to enlist Cleese, who is the usual half witted upper class Englishman, here a barrister, in salvaging what they can from the logistical disaster. Cleese falls in love with Curtis and gets in trouble with his family, predictably.
Michael Palin is also there, a linguistically challenged minor gangster, best as dog hitman, but also great with French fries, known as chips.
Otto is Italian, it means eight. Says Kline.
What the heck happened . . . . ? August 2, 2006
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
This DVD was supposed to be released yesterday, August 1, 2006, but all of a sudden it's been pulled. No explanation for what happened. You can't order it, preorder it, nothing. I've been looking forward to the release of this movie, one of the all-time great comedies, with the fantastic attendant extras, for months now, but for some reason nothing happened. I hope it's not yet another case of a brilliant but temperamental artist losing his nerve at the last minute and holding this thing up just to be contrary. Damn geniuses . . .
Superb comedy still holds up........... July 25, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I seen this when it first came out in the theaters and I was laughing so much,tears were running down my face.The great thing about this movie and so many like it,is that it still holds up.It's not dated.Great writing,pacing and directing throughout..Wonderful cast...It's got a little bit of Python thrown in as well...How can you go wrong? You can't! I'm looking forward to the all of the extras,too...This is Cleese's finest hour,since leaving Python and Fawlty Towers....BUY THIS!!!
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