A Fish Called Wanda
The plot involves members of the crew of a successful diamond heist as they try to doublecross each other for the loot, which have been hidden by the gang's leader just before he was arrested.
22 December 1909, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
2 June 1935, Bramhall, Cheshire, England, UK
17 February 1971, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
9 October 1932, Wembley, Middlesex, England, UK
27 November 1946, Stoke on Trent, England, UK
24 October 1947, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
21 July 1952, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
15 July 1924, South Africa
12 September 1945, Dublin, Ireland
July 30, 2013
A Fish Called Wanda is vintage black comedy, British-style -- a cruel, dastardly, down-and-dirty jewel-robbery romp that pits thief against thief, while entangling an innocent bystander in the web of greed, romance and decidedly cockeyed high jinks.
July 30, 2013
Putting heart and heat into a film that could have easily slid by on silliness, Cleese proves himself a master actor.
July 30, 2013
Low comedy at high speed, it pretends to be a caper movie about a smooth London jewel heist and its infinitely complex aftermath. Actually, it's a smart farce about ingrained cultural differences.
July 30, 2013
This hilarious tale of criminal incompetence and transatlantic eccentricity is easily John Cleese's finest achievement since Fawlty Towers.
April 27, 2009
Wanda defies gravity, in both senses of the word, and redefines a great comic tradition.
July 30, 2013
Somehow, the movie manages to do the impossible: It makes John Cleese less than hilarious.
April 27, 2009
Like many of the best English comedies, much of the humor here is based on character, good-natured high spirits, and fairly uninhibited vulgarity.
July 30, 2013
The movie's basic joke holds that the overbearing, unselfconscious Americans will do anything and say anything (and usually as loudly as possible), while the timorous British are nearly too polite to breathe.
July 30, 2013
Cleese's cracking script gives it a solid foundation, but it's the supporting cast who make this movie wanda-ful.
July 30, 2013
There are a few hilarious moments, and a few more that are foolish and even disgusting.
July 30, 2013
Perhaps the most unusual aspect of what is surely the year's most original and daring comedy is that John Cleese is not the funniest performer in it. Believe it or not, that honor goes to none other than the usually somber Kevin Kline.
July 30, 2013
As in most of his Python parts... Cleese's character is an extended riff on the concept of pomposity. But Archie is more leavened with humanity than any of his other roles.
