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Fierce Creatures, 1997

Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis

Directed by: Robert M. Young

Written by: John Cleese

Language: English

Country: UK, USA

Runtime: 93 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:6.1

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The mood of Fierce Creatures is feel good, humorous, and clever. The plot centers around an obnoxious boss, workplace intrigue, and cons and scams. It features farce and dry humor. Fierce Creatures is a comedy movie. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. The setting is London. Fierce Creatures happens in the 1990s. It is especially suggested for teens.

Summary of Fierce Creatures

This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English zoo keeper (John Cleese) whose demesne is threatened by a tightfisted down sizing Australian media mogul, Vince McCain (Kevin Kline). A visit by the mogul's bumbling son, Rod McCain (Kevin Kline again) prompts a rash of changes at the zoo, including the order that the animals be made more fierce. In an effort to attract a huge parade of visitors the corporate moguls want to create a theme park atmosphere with only violent animals on display. In protest, the liberal zoo keepers fight back in a hilarious effort to prove the ferocious temperament of animals like the meerkat, deemed the "piranhas of the desert." When Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis), a hard-nosed marketing genius, is sent to the zoo to look after the operation she is forced to look after Rod, as he creates marketing mayhem, with false celebrity sponsors, Disneyland-like costumes for the zoo keepers and advertisements run amok. As Willa spends more time around the downtrodden zoo keepers and their fearless leader, she realizes that the McCain empire must be stopped, coming up with a delirious plan to quell the media moguls and take back the zoo.

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Language:	English
Country:	UK, USA
Release date:	24 January 1997
Runtime:	93 min

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John Cleese

as Rollo Lee

Jamie Lee Curtis

as Willa Weston

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Salon.com

Mostly smart enough to stick to pure farce and let its animals take care of their own rights. It's a charming diversion, and it treads lightly even when it has something weightier on its mind. Full Review

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by: Scott Rosenberg

The New York Times

The real fun here comes from watching Mr. Kline bounding through two archly good performances, Mr. Cleese coming hilariously unstrung in the presence of Ms. Curtis and all those adorable animals. Full Review

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by: Elvis Mitchell

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