Fierce Creatures (1997)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Clever farce about asset-stripping businessmen who try to make the profit motive fit businesses not suited to it. As well as being about those for whom the word Enough has no definition when applied to their desire for an ever-increasing wealth that they could never spend in a hundred lifetimes.

This one reunites the perfect cast of A Fish Called Wanda for an even better sexual slapstick than the previous incarnation with more likeable characters and unimpeachable human values that regard animals as more than just the cost of their upkeep.

The difficult balancing-act of the silly premiss to make the point about the silliness of greed and that greed then being parodied always threatens to teeter into self-parody - but mostly doesn’t because the humor is so irresistible. Anyone who does not laugh at this is already dead.

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