A Fish Called Wanda (1988) ****

Somehow A Fish Called Wanda (1988) escaped me all this time, but I'm very glad that I finally got around to seeing it. It's a very good film—hilarious at times—with a brilliant cast (Kevin Kline in particular steals practically every scene he's in). The plot and action sometimes play second fiddle to inventive gags and set pieces, and the score is easily the most dated and uninteresting part of the film, but it plays wonderfully as a sort of fusion of an Ealing comedy and Monty Python—appropriate, given that Wanda's director is one Charles Crichton (his last film at age 77), himself the maker of such classic Ealings as The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). Don't be an "ASSHOLE" like me; if you haven't seen this film yet, make it a priority—you won’t be ”DISAPPOINTED.”