Review – A Fish Called Wanda

Back in the days of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the show was occasionally interrupted by Graham Chapman dressed as an army officer, proclaiming that a particular skit had to stop because it had become “too silly.” It’s a good thing for this movie that Chapman – unlike fellow Python vets Michael Palin and actor/screenwriter John Cleese – didn’t make it into the cast, because otherwise the movie would have to have been halted once every ten minutes or so. This is an exceptionally silly screwball comedy about a group of robbers who steal some … well, let’s just say that by the end we’ve gotten a stuttering, animal-loving crook (Palin), a stuffy lawyer (Cleese), a woman who uses her sexual wiles on just about every man in the entire picture (Jamie Lee Curtis), and a neurotic, Nietzsche-misquoting hitman (Kevin Kline). Oh, and of course the title fish. Though this isn’t a finest-hour for anyone involved, it’s a suitably frivolous bit of fluff if that’s what you’re in the mood for. Mildly amusing