Composer:
Jerry GoldsmithCast:
John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Ronnie Corbett, Robert Lindsay, Carey Lowell, Maria Aitken, Ron Donachie, Jack Davenport (more)VOD (1)
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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. (official distributor synopsis)
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Cleese, Palin, Curtis, Kline - none of them disappointed me. Fierce Creatures may be completely different than Wanda, but I certainly can't say it's worse. John Cleese and Michael Palin are both perfect, Kevin Kline is more to my liking as the cocky father (but he's also perfect as the son's father) and Jamie Lee Curtis is, admittedly, mostly there for decoration (But what a decoration!). I round up four and a half stars for the number of scenes where I laughed really, really loud for the first time in a long time (taming the animals with a chair).__P.S. Jerry Goldsmith’s music is playing in the background, so what more could you ask for?
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After the success of Wanda, the producers bet on the same creative team and although this film leaves a little to be desired, I couldn't take a star off, I like Monty Python and Jamie Lee Curtis too much for that. Kevin Kline got the role of a self-centered jerk again, hardly a match for his Otto, though. Michael Palin was apparently given his role to make up for stuttering Kevin – he certainly had the most lines of anyone involved. Anyway, I had fun, and the inventiveness of the caretakers was amazing. I also enjoyed all those killer coatis, rabbits, meerkats, and anteaters.
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