Fierce Creatures


Fierce Creatures is a 1997 farcical comedy film. While not literally a sequel, Fierce Creatures is a spiritual successor to the 1988 film A Fish Called Wanda. Both films star John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. Fierce Creatures was written by John Cleese, and directed by Robert Young and Fred Schepisi.

The film opens with Willa Weston Jamie Lee Curtis arriving in Atlanta to take a high ranking position in a company recently acquired by Octopus Inc.s owner, Rod McCain Kevin Kline. After meeting his son, vice president of marketing Vince McCain also played by Kline, and Rods assistant Neville, Willa is told by McCain that he has already sold the company where she was to work. Now without a job, Willa agrees to run another recent acquisition, Marwood Zoo, in an attempt to create a business model that can be used for multiple zoos in the future.The newly appointed director of the zoo is a retired Hong Kong Police Force officer and former Octopus Television employee, Rollo Lee John Cleese. In order to meet Octopuss revenue target offrom all assets, Lee institutes a fierce creatures theme, assuming that exhibits of dangerous animals and emphasis on violence will attract more visitors. All animals not meeting those requirements must go. All the animal keepers, including spiderhandler Bugsy Michael Palin, make various attempts to get Rollo to change his mind. One sees them place five cute animals in front of Rollo and tell him that they have to be exterminated. They go on to say that, as they are very fond of the animals, Rollo must shoot them himself. Unfortunately, they are horrified when they hear five shots, and find Rollo leaving five recently dug graves. It soon transpires that Rollo has staged the killings and hidden the animals in his bedroom, where they cause chaos. When the animals interrupt a phonecall from Vince and Willa, the two Americans become convinced Rollo is having orgies with female members of staff. ........

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