A Fish Called Wanda

As promised, this week i will review my personal oppinion about a wonderful comedy known to us all as "A Fish Called Wanda".

I always loved John Cleese, from Monty Python to, Fawlty Towers, to that horrible role he had in the last Pierce Brosnan James Bond.
Bu the man who shines in the movie is not John Cleese but yes Kevin Kline and should i say he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor with his role of hyperactive, dumb, jealous, aggressive killer. He's just brilliant in this character. The filme tells the story of a robbery and its consequences. Two English men, George portrayed by Tom Georgeson) and Ken played by another ex-monty python Michael Palin and two Americans, Wanda which is portrayed by Jamie Lee Curtis and Otto (Kevin Kline), stage a successful heist from a jeweler's store. The fun comes afterwards when they start to double-cross eachother to take all the loot for themselves.

The movie flows beautifully in the comedy genre, as it mixes the macabre's gags and jokes of John Cleese and Michael Palin Monty Python's with the satirizing spirit of the tipical British humour. Its a classic English comedy with American actors in the middle.

Maybe for some people it's just a comedy but for other it's more then that, as there's little messages within. For example the character Ken portrayed by Michael Palin is of a jewel thief with a soft heart for animals and a terrible stutter. This for me is seen as a dark ruthlessly irreverent humour as it makes funny of stutters.

The point is this a top rated comedy of British humour, with a bit of American feeling in it. Is a movie not to be missed, specially if you want a good damn laugh. It's a wonderfully entertainig piece of art from the 80's. Don't miss it. Enjoy it.

As this will be my last review in my homeland for a while, that is Portugal and i'm going on a big business trip for 6 months, i don't want you all to be sad if i won't appear for awhile here with new and fresh reviews (from the 80's of course :) ). But don't worry because i'll be back faster then you think. Did someone said Rain Man. That's your answer. Watch movies, watch a lot of good movies.

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