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  DVDFILE.COM: A Fish Called Wanda review
Wanda has been shamelessly manipulating her criminal cohorts, her lovers.
And poor Ken, stricken with a terminal stutter, is so taken with Wanda that he's named his favorite fish for her.
Navigating to the treasure chest and selecting it brings up a Wanda the Fish "screen saver." (Am I the only one who thinks that a real screen saver is pretty much fl in order to save the phosphors?) There's a pan & scan version of the film on the second side.
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  Encyclopedia: A Fish Called Wanda
They bring in two Americans, sexy con artist Wanda Gershwitz (Curtis) and dim-witted hitman Otto West (Kline), who are lovers pretending to be siblings so Wanda can work her charms on George and Ken. Tom Georgeson in a British actor, known for his television and film work.
A Fish Called Wanda" is the catch o' the day -- a fresh and flaky farce, half-baked and served with a saucy performance by Jamie Lee Curtis and your choice of chaps (John Cleese, Michael Palin and Kevin Kline).
In a moment where Wanda is trying to express just how stupid 'her brother' Otto is to Archie, she laughs, 'When I told him [Otto] your daughter was called Portia, he asked, 'Why did he name his daughter after a car?'', riffing delightfully on the common American mispronunciation of Porsche.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/A-Fish-Called-Wanda   (1578 words)

  
 A Fish Called Wanda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 A Fish Called Wanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They bring in two Americans, sexy con artist Wanda Gershwitz (Curtis) and dim-witted hitman Otto West (Kline), who are lovers pretending to be siblings so Wanda can work her charms on George and Ken.
Wanda decides the best way to get the information is by seducing George's lawyer, Archibald Leach (Cleese), a man stuck in a loveless marriage to a rich shrew of a woman.
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted A Fish Called Wanda the 37th greatest comedy film of all time.
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 A Fish Called Wanda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
They bring in two American s, sexy con artist Wanda Gershwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) and dim-witted hitman Otto West (Kevin Kline), who are lovers pretending to be siblings so Wanda can work her charms on George and Ken. After the robbery, Wanda and Otto betray George to the police.
Wanda decides the best way to get the information is by seducing George's lawyer, Archibald Leach (Cleese; cf Cary Grant).
So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-A_Fish_Called_Wanda.html   (390 words)

  
 'A Fish Called Wanda'
Ken, Wanda and cohorts Otto (Kline) and George (Tom Georgeson) plan and pull off a jewel heist in London's Hatton Gardens, then one by one they turn on each other.
"Wanda" is a Harlequin romance for men, a breakthrough for Britain and a deftly directed and wonderfully acted sex farce for consenting adults.
A Fish Called Wanda is rated R for everything and is playing at area theaters.
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 Fish Called Wanda, A - VHS - Title F Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
But in reality A Fish Called Wanda was about as far as it could get away from Cleese's roots, with him fairly liberally straying into the world of cost transatlantic...
'A Fish Called Wanda' was a massive hit in 1988 when it was released and I first saw it on television in the 1990's.
A Fish Called Wanda sets out with the objective of being a romantic comedy playing on familiar themes of American/British differences and the gangsters girlfriend being tempted away to a better crime free life.
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 Fish Called Wanda, A (1988): Reviews
Think of A Fish Called Wanda as the next best thing to a Looney Tunes-Merrie Melodies summerfest…Wanda defies gravity, in both senses of the word, and redefines a great comic tradition.
With British-American culture clash as its dominant theme, A Fish Called Wanda bristles with wit, enlivened by delightfully over-the-top ensemble acting.
The blossoming relationship between the characters of Wanda and Archie is wonderful to watch.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/fishcalledwanda   (722 words)

  
 A Fish Called Wanda Encyclopedia Article @ FolkArtMuseum.com (Folk Art Museum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In his attempts to assassinate her, Ken instead accidentally picks off the Yorkies one by one, to his great dismay.
Following the death of her last little dog, the woman dies of a heart attack.
The movie was a major critical and commercial success when it was released and has remained a popular favourite since.
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 A Fish Called Wanda Movie: A Fish Called Wanda DVD is available from Bestprices.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In A FISH CALLED WANDA, veteran director Charles Crichton and scriptwriter-star John Cleese create a dazzling quilt from various strands of English and American comedy.
A FISH CALLED WANDA is number 21 on the American Film Institute’s list of America's 100 Funniest Movies.
A FISH CALLED WANDA is number 39 on the British Film Institute’s Top 100 British Films of the 20th Century.
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 #10: A Fish Called Wanda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
But Wanda wants the loot all to herself, and, to aid her in getting it away from George, she brings her psychotic, Nietzche-reading lover, Otto (Kevin Kline), into the gang.
After the heist is successfully completed, Wanda and Otto place an anonymous call to the cops, and George is arrested.
A Fish Called Wanda is one of the best-constructed, funniest, and most clever comedies to grace motion picture screens in recent years.
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 Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) - MovieMeter.nl
De Amerikaanse diamantliefhebber Wanda en haar vriendje Otto zijn in Engeland om samen met George en Ken een diamantroof voor te bereiden.
Wanda en Otto willen de buit voor zichzelf houden, en informeren de politie over George.
Wanda denkt dat de beste manier om achter de verstopplaats te komen is om aan te pappen met George's advocaat Archie Leach.
www.moviemeter.nl /?film=744   (258 words)

  
 A Fish Called Wanda
AFCW doesn't approach the cartoonishness of that film, of course, since it doesn't actually include 'toons, but it uses the same kind of energy and effect.
AFCW isn't the greatest comedy of all time, but it's a witty and fun film that neatly overcomes a few weaknesses.
A Fish Called Wanda appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and in a fullscreen version on this double-sided, single-layered DVD; the widescreen rendition has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: A Fish Called Wanda (xhtml)
In "A Fish Called Wanda," for example, Michael Palin is desperately in love with a tank of tropical fish, and so Kline, who is equally desperate about discovering the whereabouts of some stolen jewels, eats the fish, one at a time, in an attempt to force Palin to talk.
And he is a master at the humiliating moment of public unmasking, as when Cleese the barrister, in court, accidentally calls Curtis "darling." The movie involves an odd, ill-matched team of jewel thieves led by Tom Georgeson, a weaselly thief who is locked up in prison along with the secret of the jewels.
One friend of mine already says she won't see "A Fish Called Wanda" because she has heard that dogs die in it (she is never, of course, reluctant to attend movies where people die).
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 A Fish Called Wanda 1988
A Fish Called Wanda was a true British film blockbuster, feted as the greatest comedy film to emerge from these shores since The Lavender Hill Mob.
Wanda proves the perfect vehicle for John Cleese's in depth deconstruction of the anal-retentive attitude of some British.
With showered praise no movie could possibly live up to, A Fish Called Wanda is an enjoyable crime caper and that's all, with some legendary set pieces (Cleese stripping to Russian spouting/Palin with the chips up his nose).
www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/comedy/filmography/019.html   (871 words)

  
 A Fish Called Wanda - ReviewFocus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Review: A FISH CALLED WANDA is one of the most rewarding comedies of the past 30 years, offering up a stellar script, well-balanced direction and 100% perfect casting.
Review: A Fish Called Wanda may be crude, but it is really a romantic comedy in the old fashioned sense of the word.
The old fashioned whimsy of the tale combined with a sense of the macabre is heightened by the presence of Charles Chichton, one time director of many of the similarily dark Ealing comedies who masterly handles this story of a jewell robbery aftermath, with all it's backstabbing and bed hopping.
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 A Fish Called Wanda Movie -The 80s Rewind «
Wanda (Curtis) is an ambitious American confidence trickster in Britain, who uses every feminine wile to get in on a jewel heist led by her gangster lover George Thomason (Georgeson).
Wanda romances George's henchman, Otto (Kline), and the pair plot against George and George's flunky, the stuttering animal-lover Ken (Palin) to swipe the loot for themselves, and rat George out to the cops.
Wanda repeatedly seduces Archie (who is bored with his marriage and amazed that someone like Wanda would be interested), trying to get the information.
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 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- A FISH CALLED WANDA
A FISH CALLED WANDA stars John Cleese as Archie Leach (Cary Grant's real name), an all too proper British barrister who inadvertently becomes involved with a gang of thieves, after taking on the defense of their captured leader.
Jamie Lee Curtis portrays Wanda; the mastermind's supposed girlfriend, who is actually part of the double cross that got him arrested after a big diamond heist.
Otto is Wanda's jealous boyfriend, who poses as her brother (and former CIA operative), so he can secure a position as the weapons’ man on the heist.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/fish-called-wanda-dvd.htm   (704 words)

  
 The BIG Picture Review: A FISH CALLED WANDA
Charles Crichton's hilarious A FISH CALLED WANDA blends together the 'something completely different' Python-esque humor from the UK, with the more savage, laced with profanities humor more common in American films.
Some of the finest moments in A FISH CALLED WANDA come when characters are horribly embarrassed - like when Kline, pretending to be gay, comes on to Palin outside a courthouse with a dozen bystanders to witness.
As Wanda and Otto close in on the location of the diamonds, more double crosses are committed - both in the courtroom during George's trial, and at Heathrow Airport during an escape from justice.
www.thebigpicturedvd.com /html_reviews/bpst195.shtml   (1048 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: A Fish Called Wanda [1988]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wanda Gershwitz, (Jamie Lee Curtis), is George's girlfriend, who uses her formidable seduction techniques to get what she wants, and she wants all the money!
Wanda finagles to bring Otto West, (Kevin Kline), into the gang, telling the others he is her brother - although like most other men in the film, he is her lover.
The ploys, dirty tricks and double-crosses Otto and Wanda use against their partners, to prevent them from receiving a share of the loot, are classic.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007LZ5I   (1444 words)

  
 Gaming Illustrated - A Fish Called Wanda DVD FEATUED REVIEW.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When Wanda (not the fish) gets caught up with Otto, the nitwitted madman, and Archie Leach (a lawyer) the comedy flies here and there in one of the funner movies from the late 1980s.
The best and most original thing about A Fish Called Wanda were the hilarious characters that the writers were brilliant in creating, and the actors brilliant in bringing to life.
This 2-disc collector’s edition of A Fish Called Wanda has great extras, and the audio and video quality are adequate.
www.gamingillustrated.com /afishcalledwanda.php   (515 words)

  
 A Fish Called Wanda Movie Review - Fish
A Fish Called Wanda opens with the credits' score played over the swimming inhabitants of a well-tended hobbyist's aquarium.
Wanda is also a sexy, charmingly manipulative woman, played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
Wanda is last to go, and Ken manages to squeak out his information only when Otto (Kline) reaches for this last, special fish.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art16339.asp   (374 words)

  
 A Fish Called Wanda Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Directed and co-written by Charles Crichton (with star John Cleese), the British film veteran who crafted the fantastic Lavender Hill Mob (1952), A Fish Called Wanda is a daring ribald comedy with a decidedly screwball touch.
Meanwhile Wanda and her numb-nuts, Nietzsche-loving boyfriend, Otto (Kevin Kline), are intent on finding the jewels and keeping them for themselves.
When Wanda learns of George's barrister, Archie Leach (Cleese), and that George may possibly reveal the location of the jewels to him, she moves in for the kill.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=395   (819 words)

  
 Nights And Weekends - A Fish Called Wanda Review
Wanda (Curtis) and her boyfriend-posing-as-her-brother, Otto (Kline), join with Wanda’s other boyfriend, George, and his stuttering hit man, Ken (Palin), to rid a London jeweler of millions of pounds in diamonds.
Once Wanda and Otto discover that the diamonds are gone, it’s up to Wanda to figure out where they’re hidden.
A Fish Called Wanda is comedy at its best—with four stars giving four-star performances.
www.nightsandweekends.com /articles/04/NW0400180.php   (294 words)

  
 A Fish Called Wanda (1988)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wanda: I'll be right back, take your clothes off.
Also, the funny-offensive envelope is pushed to the limit when K-K-K-Ken (Michael Palin), the passionate animal lover inadvertently kills three innocent dogs in his attempt to murder an old woman who would otherwise be a prosecution witness.
A Fish Called Wanda is pure comedy and every scene either provides a laugh or sets one up - it graciously does not waste our time trying to be moral or turning into a formula car-chase flick.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0095159   (720 words)

  
 A Fish Called Wanda Comprehensive Movie Review
Diamond-loving American Wanda (Curtis) has come to London with her demented, self-loving, and Nietzsche-quoting boyfriend Otto (Kline) in hopes of pulling off an armed diamond heist.
Wanda and Otto inform on George and get him locked up, little knowing that he has already stashed the diamonds somewhere else.
This 1988 film is a delightful, hilarious hoot, cowritten and codirected by Cleese and 78-year-old Charles Crichton, once the director of 1951's "Lavender Hill Mob" and a number of 1960s "Avengers" episodes.
www.allwatchers.com /Topics/Info_3977.asp   (510 words)

  
 FilmGoer - A Fish Called Wanda
Kala nimeltä Wanda - A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Näin amerikkalaiset Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis, Tosi valheita) ja Otto (Kevin Kline, lainannut äänensä moniin Disney-filmatisointeihin) vikittelevät syytetyn asianajajan Archien (Cleece), jotta tämä lipsauttaisi saaliin sijainnin.
Kala nimeltä Wanda on aito 80 ja 90-lukujen aikainen rikoskomedia, ja se ansaitse paikkansa komediantähtitaivaalla.
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 A Fish Called Wanda (Wide Screen) : Read reviews and compare prices at Ciao.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
But the few who did turn up for preview screenings of A Fish Called Wanda weren’t surprised when it went on to become one of the most successful comedies of all time.
But in reality A Fish Called Wanda was about as far as it could get away from Cleese's roots, with him fairly liberally straying into the world of cost transatlantic comedy.
The film follows the exploits of Wanda and Otto trying to discover the hidden jewels, but the only person who knows is stuttering Ken superbly played by Michael Palin At times this is a very funny movie...
www.ciao.co.uk /A_Fish_Called_Wanda__35037   (761 words)

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