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A Fish Called Wanda

1988

Charles Crichton

John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Palin ...

6.9

44,469

Comedy Diamond-loving American Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) has come to London with her demented, self-loving, and Nietzsche-quoting boyfriend Otto (Kevin Kline) in hopes of pulling off an armed diamond heist. The couple team up with two Brits, George (Tom Georgeson) and Ken (Michael Palin), a stuttering animal lover who plots to kill his annoying elderly neighbor but keeps knocking off her little dogs, much to his sorrow. After the heist, the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'A Fish Called Wanda' is the funniest movie I have seen in a long time (...) The film has one hilarious sequence after another (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Emma Cochrane Empire	"Mixing acerbic Pythonesque humour with a sweet rom-com touch and wonderful comic performances, this may be the finest hour for any former Python (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"One of the best-constructed, funniest, and most clever comedies to grace motion picture screens in recent years. It's outrageous, offensive, and even a little sick -- and all the more enjoyable because of it"
		Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"It's guilty fun with the unsettling feel of 'Something Wild' (...) 'Wanda is a Harlequin romance for men, a breakthrough for Britain and a deftly directed and wonderfully acted sex farce"
		Variety Staff Variety	"Though it is less tasteless, irreverent and satirical than the Python pics, film still is wacky and occasionally outrageous in its own, distinctly British way (...) Curtis steals the show with her keen sense of comic timing"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'A Fish Called Wanda' seems to have turned into a private joke to be enjoyed only by the members of the cast and crew who made it."
		Time Out	"There's nothing deep, nothing ground-breaking, but it's a never-dull, tightly scripted yarn with some very funny gags."

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