Although it doesn't quite hold up to it's "e-quel," "A Fish Called Wanda" featuring the same cast, this is quite a funny movie. The storyline clearly doesn't matter much, it's simply a device to hang some great performances on:
Kevin Kline is typically compelling (playing two roles), Michael Palin, who played a virtually non-speaking role in "Wanda," is riotous here as a zookeeper who won't stop talking. However, it's the imagined sexual chemistry between John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis that steals the show for much of the movie. There is one very funny scene of Cleese dropping a series of Freudian slips as he is flustered by the sexy and very forward Curtis.
If you pay attention, you'll hear some echoes of classic Monty Python sketches ("it's just a flesh wound, sir"), so if you're a fan of that and all that followed, don't miss this one.
Kevin Kline is typically compelling (playing two roles), Michael Palin, who played a virtually non-speaking role in "Wanda," is riotous here as a zookeeper who won't stop talking. However, it's the imagined sexual chemistry between John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis that steals the show for much of the movie. There is one very funny scene of Cleese dropping a series of Freudian slips as he is flustered by the sexy and very forward Curtis.
If you pay attention, you'll hear some echoes of classic Monty Python sketches ("it's just a flesh wound, sir"), so if you're a fan of that and all that followed, don't miss this one.