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Smartly written, smoothly directed, and solidly cast, A Fish Called Wanda offers a classic example of a brainy comedy with widespread appeal.
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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 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Desmond Ryan
Somehow, the movie manages to do the impossible: It makes John Cleese less than hilarious. July 30, 2013 | Full Review…
Somehow, the movie manages to do the impossible: It makes John Cleese less than hilarious.
Jay Boyar
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 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Sheila Benson
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 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Dave Kehr
Wanda defies gravity, in both senses of the word, and redefines a great comic tradition. April 27, 2009 | Full Review…
Wanda defies gravity, in both senses of the word, and redefines a great comic tradition.
Richard Schickel
Like many of the best English comedies, much of the humor here is based on character, good-natured high spirits, and fairly uninhibited vulgarity. April 27, 2009 | Full Review…
Like many of the best English comedies, much of the humor here is based on character, good-natured high spirits, and fairly uninhibited vulgarity.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A nutty caper film that is sometimes riotous, sometimes romantic, and sometimes merely confused. February 27, 2020 | Full Review…
A nutty caper film that is sometimes riotous, sometimes romantic, and sometimes merely confused.
Molly Haskell
To those who appreciate Ealing comedy (which is to say all right-thinking people), watching the film is like chancing on a Hogarth sketch in grandmother's attic, clearly and unmistakably signed by the Master. January 16, 2020 | Full Review…
To those who appreciate Ealing comedy (which is to say all right-thinking people), watching the film is like chancing on a Hogarth sketch in grandmother's attic, clearly and unmistakably signed by the Master.
John Pym
In the Monty Python tradition, the script is an assembly of skitlike situations cobbled into a flimsy story. The humor is cruel and at times wildly funny. October 29, 2019 | Full Review…
In the Monty Python tradition, the script is an assembly of skitlike situations cobbled into a flimsy story. The humor is cruel and at times wildly funny.
Brian D. Johnson
The antics alone are fun to watch, but the dialogue is priceless, and there's never been such a hilarious blend of American and British humor. December 9, 2017 | Full Review…
The antics alone are fun to watch, but the dialogue is priceless, and there's never been such a hilarious blend of American and British humor.
Cathy Burke
The key to Wanda's comedy is the ever-shifting loyalties of its four nutty main characters. October 18, 2017 | Full Review…
The key to Wanda's comedy is the ever-shifting loyalties of its four nutty main characters.
Austin Trunick
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 | Full Review…
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.
Roger Hurlburt
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