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A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 comedy crime film, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese and Kevin Kline.
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60 of 193 · most liked firstdrunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight in The December Comfort Watches: A Fish Called Wanda, the first and to date the only film that made me laugh so hard I almost peed myself right there in the movie theater: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/20/t...
positive · AI labelView post →#Bales2026MovieChallenge May 20 - features a quirky villain or rival A Fish Called Wanda ...hyperactive, deranged Otto is played hilariously by Kevin Kline #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →movie night in my discord at 8 eastern tn! we're watching A Fish Called Wanda. you can get in (and get a bunch of other stuff) for as little as $5/month patreon.com/merrittk
neutral · AI labelView post →No funnier performance on film than Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda. A solo comic symphony that has only gotten better with age.
positive · AI labelView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988) and SNEAKERS (1992)
neutral · AI labelView post →for a long time i got A Fish Called Wanda confused with The Incredible Mr. Limpet so i thought it was a movie about Jamie Lee Curtis turning into a sea creature
neutral · AI labelView post →Listened to movie podcast. Two grown men, discussing A Fish Called Wanda. "What's the name of the guy who played Ken?" "Dunno, I never checked." "Huh. Doesn't matter." Some people shouldn't be allowed to have podcasts.
neutral · AI labelView post →Doing "A Fish Called Wanda" this weekend for Film Sack, and was reminded about questions I've had about Kevin Kline's pants on the poster since 1988.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988). Director: Charles Crichton. John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis. I once found this delightfully over-the-top black comedy quite hilarious. It's been so long...I hope I still do! #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →#Gif&Records #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 23: “A Fish Called Wanda” This film is a comedy about a group of diamond thieves who try to betray each other so they don't have to share the stolen gems. “Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend” · Marilyn Monroe m.youtube.com/watch?v=bfsn...
neutral · AI labelView post →the most online movie character from a movie made before the (popular, social) internet is unquestionably Otto from A Fish Called Wanda
neutral · AI labelView post →A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Director: John Cleese, Charles Crichton Cast: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Stephen Fry Watch Review wp / ltrbox
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness Day 9 Favorite British Movie Life of Brian and MP and The Holy Grail are both really my favorites, but I'll give a nod here to a partially-Python movie: A Fish Called Wanda youtu.be/0WTwVpEEMps?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#GIF&Records #MusicChallenge Movie GIF 23 : A Fish Called Wanda "I Wanda, Wanda, who, who-oo-ooh, who Who wrote the book of love"🎶 The Book of Love - The Monotones youtu.be/HI8cmP3DL64?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness Favourite British Movie A Fish Called Wanda (1988) "Let me correct you in a few things. Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "every man for himself" and The London Underground is not a political movement "
neutral · AI labelView post →He was the engine that made A FISH CALLED WANDA work, giving JLC and Klein and Palin room as one of the best straight men in movie history.
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a very funny movie titled "A Fish Called Wanda." There's a character in the movie, and people keep mentioning how stupid he is. After the fourth or fifth mention, the viewer begins to wonder how stupid can he really be? He seems functional and rational. Maybe they are just being hard on him? Then he does something incredibly stupid. Mindbogglingly stupid.
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, who’s interested in a little A Fish Called Wanda action? Looks like it’s included with Amazon Prime Video, or rentable
neutral · AI labelView post →#FilmHistory On this day, 1988, the John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline & Michael Palin British comedy A FISH CALLED WANDA was released. On a budget of $7.5 million, the film grossed a worldwide total of $188.6 million, & was nominated for 3 Academy Awards & winning 1 for Kevin Kline
neutral · AI labelView post →watching A FISH CALLED WANDA for the first time and apparently a directive on this movie was "find all the crazy 80's hot outfits for Jamie Lee Curtis you can find."
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's movie (Friday 9-25-26 is (LOL) A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →#FilmHistory On this day, 1988, A Fish Called Wanda was released in American theaters. The film brought together an extraordinary cast: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Cleese’s fellow Monty Python legend Michael Palin. Kline's brilliant performance earned him an Academy Award.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness #MovieChallenge Day 4 - Movie with your favorite character "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988) I generally tend to go for everyman characters. Otto is ... not that. But he is funny, and memorable, and ruthless. Just don't call him stupid. youtu.be/kf5BLE3oonA?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Halloween, fav Jamie Lee Curtis film A Fish Called Wanda 😎
neutral · AI labelView post →I imagine the main problem with getting a Fish Called Wanda musical off the ground is people just not really giving a shit? I mean, it was quite fun movie at the time, but I just don't believe it's got the cultural footprint that'll keep it selling tickets night after night.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Feral Nerds Film Festival movie tonight is A FISH CALLED WANDA. Here's the teleparty link! t.co/fU06R3VVaz
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie surprised me. It’s so funny! One of my favs. An honorable mention is another fav of mine: A Fish Called Wanda. (Is it considered a classic yet?)
positive · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: After working with Kevin Kline on this film, John Cleese wrote 'A Fish Called Wanda' and the role of "Otto" specifically with Kline in mind. (IMDB)
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Charles Crichton’s and John Cleese’s A Fish Called Wanda before it leaves the Criterion Channel this weekend (Finn is also very interested in the content of this movie) #filmsky #nowwatching
neutral · AI labelView post →put on my mom's very favorite movie (A FISH CALLED WANDA) in an attempt to brighten my mood
positive · AI labelView post →Alright, best of the 80s: 80 - Blues Brothers 81 - Possession 82 - The Thing 83 - Videodrome 84 - Stop Making Sense 85 - Clue 86 - Ferris Bueller 87 - Housekeeping 88 - A Fish Called Wanda 89 - Do the Right Thing Not my favorite film decade but I had to make some TOUGH calls
positive · AI labelView post →Rather love this little snippet from Michael Palin's diaries about John Cleese's total cluelessness when it came to 80s pop, back when they were preparing to film A Fish Called Wanda.
neutral · AI labelView post →UGH fine you NERDS Ten non horror movies to get to know me: Seven Samurai Star Trek VI Star Wars (1977) The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) A Fish Called Wanda Man of Steel Captain America: The First Avenger Children of Men Godzilla vs. Biollante
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1980s. Kevin Kline, Otto West, "A Fish Called Wanda" (directed by Charles Crichton). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #kevinkline #AFishCalledWanda #CharlesCrichton
neutral · AI labelView post →Everything Everywhere All At Once is my favorite film she's in. A Fish Called Wanda is my favorite film I would think of as hers.
neutral · AI labelView post →For #NewYearsResolutionsChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social Day 9 - Someone reading a book in a movie... #KevinKline, as Otto is seen sleeping, after apparently reading books by Nietzsche in A Fish, Called Wanda (1988)... #filmsky weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →This publicity photo from a Fish Called Wanda had nothing to do with the film. It involved John Cleese and Michael Palin re-enacting an old Monty Python sketch for the '...First Farewell Performance' documentary.
neutral · AI labelView post →new Life in Film: with all the grace of someone who used to box for Oxford, I grapple with the 80sness of A Fish Called Wanda keithpille.com/a-life-in-fi...
neutral · AI labelView post →It must also be said that John Cleese never wrote a film funnier than A FISH CALLED WANDA. And I say this as a die-hard Python fan. There’s no character quite like Otto in the rest of Cleese’s work, and you can feel him chortling as he devises one sublimely dumbass line after another.
positive · AI labelView post →Twister The Thing Clueless Lost In Translation Jurassic Park The Edge You’ve Got Mail The Trip Galaxy Quest Scott Pilgrim The Truman Show 28 Days A Fish Called Wanda True Lies Sphere any Alien movie Practical Magic Amelie Best In Show The Shining Gone Girl Kiki’s Delivery Service The Ninth Gate Sideways Cold Comfort Farm Napoleon Dynamite Starship Troopers Contagion The Mummy Die Hard With A Vengeance Entrapment Midnight In Paris The Fifth Element Zoolander They’re not all “good” movies,…
neutral · AI labelView post →@brideofstonehomie.bsky.social and I are watching A Fish Called Wanda tonight. I have never seen this one but it's got a great cast and it's about a jewel heist so feeling optimistic.
positive · AI labelView post →Movie #8 for #Junesploitation is Heists, so I went with A Fish Called Wanda. When I was a kid, I thought this was like The Incredible Mr. Limpet because all I knew about it was the title. At least it actually has a fish called Wanda in it! letterboxd.com/josephlee411...
positive · AI labelView post →Given that her striptease in True Lies was a bit of a bisexual awakening for me, gonna go with that one even though I like A Fish Called Wanda better as a movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 90th to Judi Dench! Here’s an artist’s rendering of her for the 1965 film HE WHO RIDES A TIGER: (this was the last theatrical release directed by Charles Crichton, until A FISH CALLED WANDA)
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - Superman The Movie 80s - A Fish Called Wanda 90s - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 00s - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 10s - Interstellar 20s - Godzilla Minus One
neutral · AI labelView post →My father took our entire family to go see A Fish Called Wanda at the River Oaks theater when it came out. It is the film he judges all other films against. As far as he’s concerned. It’s perfect. He’s probably not wrong.
positive · AI labelView post →"A Fish Called Wanda" on opening night in Edinburgh. Never had a crowd so into a film before, or since. An entire auditorium roaring, cheering, stamping, clapping. Everytime Michael Palin turned up in a new disguise the roof came off. Amazing experience.
positive · AI labelView post →3. A Fish Called Wanda (1988) - The movie that killed a guy from laughing at it, apparently. Despite John Cleese being a fuckhead currently, he did a great job with it. Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis are both very sexy in it. Lotsa laffs. A-/B+
positive · AI labelView post →Im watching an old episode of Catchphrase and one of the answers is "A Fish Called Wanda".... in fact most of the answers are either movie or song titles. Roy Walker you have cheated me.
neutral · AI labelView post →5. Jamie Lee Curtis & A Fish Called Wanda (1988) She’s in so many great films, it was hard to actually pick just one. So I went with the film that first gave me a crush on her when I was a kid. It’s one of the funniest rom coms you could ask for. The “sequel” is pretty good too! #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →The other movie of similar vintage that did that to me was A FISH CALLED WANDA
neutral · AI labelView post →Her favorite movie is A FISH CALLED WANDA and her favorite Sunny character is Sweet Dee lol
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I've watched most of the things that Monty Python members have been in, except, somehow, today's Movie I've Never Seen Before: A Fish Called Wanda
neutral · AI labelView post →Since I posted Michael Palin - tell you a story. Ken was a good Catholic boy when we met. Never smoked up 😮 Rented A Fish Called Wanda, got him high & watched together. His uncontrollable roaring laughter was funnier than the film! 😅😅 youtu.be/XAm9ZofG_q4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →my mom's favorite movie is A FISH CALLED WANDA and my dad's is prooooobably TOMBSTONE and honestly I feel like that explains things about me
neutral · AI labelView post →According to Leonard Maltin this movie is just as good as A Fish Called Wanda
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge Oct. 22 - movie character who stutters Ken - A Fish Called Wanda (1988) #filmsky #moviesky ...Ken is a stuttering henchman who loves and protects animals including his fish, Wanda. His stuttering is exacerbated by the wildly unhinged Otto (Kevin Kline)...
neutral · AI labelView post →Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: A Fish Called Wanda for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →Definitely A Fish Called Wanda! Closely followed by True Lies...yes, it's a preposterous film but I love her character in it so much.
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