A Fish Called Wanda

1988

Action / Comedy / Crime

42
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 96% · 68 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 161708 161.7K

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Plot summary

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

Director

John Cleese Photo
John Cleese

Top cast

Michael Palin Photo
Michael Palin as Ken Pile
Jeremy Child Photo
Jeremy Child as Mr. Johnson
Jamie Lee Curtis Photo
Jamie Lee Curtis as Wanda Gershwitz
John Bird Photo
John Bird as Clerk of the Magistrate's Court
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897.23 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 18
1.71 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 86

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil 8 / 10

there's always someone cleverer than you...

Charles Crichton may have 78 years old, when he made this movie, it didn't prevent him from making a lively, successful and above all funny. The making is dynamic and inventive. But the main strength of the movie is the screenplay. It's certainly a bit vulgar but it's very strong, inspired and full of little details which kick the bull's eye. Let's add that it contains also unexpected reversals of situation. This, in order to start again the attention and to put forward the characters' cupidity and egoism towards the loot. The best example are the moments when Otto and Wanda are denouncing Georges to the police to take advantage of the loot; but they don't know where the loot is. The other moment is during the trial when Cleese's calling involuntarily Wanda "darling". He's betraying his wife and provoking Georges' anger... Above all, it's impossible to neglect the humour of the movie. It's black, caustic and a bit devastating. The greatest moments are: the liquidation of the old lady's dogs. Besides, these dogs are really pieces of junk when they're barking. Otto who becomes an executioner near the end of the movie when he's devouring Ken's fishes so as to make him tell the truth about the diamonds. At last, the actors are irresistible, especially Kevin Kline (he won an oscar for his performance in 1989), fervent admirer of Nietzche's philosophy, Michael Palin, an old and stammerer boy who loves animals.At the end, not any injuries time and a comedy held up by outstanding actors.
Reviewed by bigverybadtom 6 / 10

Funny In Parts, But Hardly A Classic

The movie was created as a hybrid of 1940-1950's Ealing comedy and later Monty Python-type silliness. The combination didn't quite work as intended.I went to see it in the theater because of all the praise the movie got, but when I saw it, it had some laughs but it was less funny than I had come to expect. The movie's main joke is about the culture clash between the loud, overaggressive Americans versus the over-mannered, comatose Britons, but the stereotypes are so exaggerated they are more irritating than funny.The movie is somewhat redeemed by the scenes with Cleese and Curtis, but the other leads resort to overacting, which in itself is not very funny. As a crime drama, it's not particularly clever either. I was glad to see it once, but I wouldn't bother again.
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