1988 Review Blog
A Fish Called Wanda
Grade: A 07/25/2104
I honestly do not think there is a more perfectly paced, written, or toned comedy than A FISH CALLED WANDA. I was obsessed with this film well before I knew who Monty Python was...and it opened me up to the comic goldmine that exists with that group. This film is just a relentless onslaught of black comedy, and I think I am a very sick person for laughing so hard at it. What is wrong with me that I laugh harder and harder every time a little old lady's dog is accidentally killed by Michael Palin? Kevin Kline is so funny in this film that he has spent his entire, impressive, career trying to live up to it...and I can hardly think of ANY comic actor that ever has. I will never get sick of this film. It will never become less funny to me. And just remember. Aristotle was not Belgian...The central tenant of Buddhism is not every man for himself...and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all wrong. I looked it up.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Grade: A 07/25/2104
I honestly do not think there is a more perfectly paced, written, or toned comedy than A FISH CALLED WANDA. I was obsessed with this film well before I knew who Monty Python was...and it opened me up to the comic goldmine that exists with that group. This film is just a relentless onslaught of black comedy, and I think I am a very sick person for laughing so hard at it. What is wrong with me that I laugh harder and harder every time a little old lady's dog is accidentally killed by Michael Palin? Kevin Kline is so funny in this film that he has spent his entire, impressive, career trying to live up to it...and I can hardly think of ANY comic actor that ever has. I will never get sick of this film. It will never become less funny to me. And just remember. Aristotle was not Belgian...The central tenant of Buddhism is not every man for himself...and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all wrong. I looked it up.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die