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Every month, Amazon Prime Video Adds dozens of films to its expanding library.
The Streamer has surpassed itself in July by adding modern hits and retro classics from every genre you can think of.
One new movie that sticks out of the rest is A fish called wandaComedy in 1988 That has an impressive 96 percent on rotten tomatoes.
Very few films have that kind of score, which should tell you how good – and funny -. Here are a few reasons why you should stream it in July.
‘Fish called Wanda’ mastered comedy like Fflic Heist
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In spite of his title, A fish called wanda It is not about maritime activities; Instead, it’s a classic crime gaper where everything could possibly go wrong. It starts with George’s London Gangster (Tom Georgeson) Successfully stole some diamonds with the help of his crew: Love Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis), her brother Anglophobe otto (Kevin Kine) and getaway stuttering driver Ken (Michael Palin).
What George doesn’t know is that Wanda and Otto are not siblings at all – they are lovers, and they call the cops on George so they can get the loot all for themselves. What Wanda and Otto do not know – and soon discover their disappointment – is that George lied to them about where the loot is, so they can’t take it and can’t ask George where he is in prison.
Jamie Lee Curtis and a fish cast called Wanda
MgmDetermined to get the trophies without letting George know that they have been crossed twice, they offer a plan to enchant George’s lawyer, Archie (John Cleese), so that they can find the trophies and leave Great Britain. Complications follow when Wanda begins to fall for Archie, and Otto is consumed with jealousy.
A fish called wanda He has a lot of plot, but somehow, he never feels difficult to follow. Director Charles Crichton Directing with an efficient, invisible hand, moving the story forward at a perfect speed that allows space to mood and laughs without slacking. This is a movie that is
Actually moving – only when you’ve done the last plot development, a new one flies up. A fish called wanda is the rare comedy, even if you draw it from all its jokes, still working as a pure Heist movie. But why would anyone want to do that?
It contains an Oscar -winning performance
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A fish called wandaAnother striking achievement is that the rare comedy that actually won Oscar acting. Kline received an Academy Award for his performance as Otto in 1989, beating competitors like Obi-Wan Kenobi himself, Alec Guinnessand young River Phoenix. It was well deserved, though, because Kline has never been better like the hypnotic otto narcissist – and very funny.
The key to Kline’s performance is that Otto thinks he is the smartest person in the room when the exact opposite is true. Wanda tolerates him because he is good in the sack, but even has her limits. In one of the great takedowns in the history of the cinema, she reveals to him how dumb he really is.
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Only an actor like Kline can sell Otto self-deception as a comedy, but also make it dangerous as well. As Otto often says throughout the film, he doesn’t like to be called “stupid,” so when the inevitable happens and someone does, they are almost killed. Kline’s Otto is a true original – a slazy psychopath that wants nothing more than to be considered a reasonable intellector. Much of the film’s laughter is derived from Otto -responses and how Kiline conveys them through a striking mix of oral and physical comedy.
It’s one of the funniest movies ever made
Jamie Lee Curtis in a fish called Wanda
MgmKline is not just great-Curtis, Cleese and Palin are also first class and each has multiple seconds to showcase their comed skills. Curtis draws on his sex symbol status from the 80s as a weapon that Wanda uses to enchant all the men in the film, which is all helpless to his charm. But Wanda herself has a weakness – she loves when men talk to her in a foreign language, so when Cleese starts to talk to her in Italian and then Russia, she loses all her suspensions.
Ken Palin gets his own side story where he has to murder an old woman who saw George stealing the trophies. He is not very good at him, and he still fails to kill him – and instead he is a snice out all of her cute chi by accident. This causes Ken’s specific ingratitude as he is the love of an animal, and the film still breaks back to this unsuccessful murderer attending multiple dog funerals that cannot help cause.
‘Fish called Wanda’ is so funny, he could kill you – seriously
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I could go on and on – that is the scene with Archie being found naked by his neighbors as he tries to entice Wanda and there is another sequence when Archie’s wife is asking Otto trespass as to why she is at home. And then there is a Madcap finale, which combines the persecution of breath into an airport that is straight out of a rom-com and apparent death from a streamroller that is more appropriate for Looney Tunes Cartoon than British comedy.
But what else do you expect from such a funny movie, caused the death of one of its viewers? By Ole Bentzen officially died From heart fibrillation, that was due to an extended period of laughter while he was watching the film.
Due to the large number of movies on Amazon Prime Video, there are many more bad comedies on the Streamer than there are good ones. In fact, you may have to scroll through many movies before you find a comedy that is worth laughing at. But that’s what the watch is with a team (…)
I don’t think you’ll die while watching A fish called wandaBut even if you did, there are worse ways to go. Although almost 40, the comedy is still as sharp and funny as it was in 1988. If you are a subscriber Amazon Prime Video, there is no better movie to stream this month than a film that combines prestigious Larceny, high comedy, sweet romance and attempted murder by sticking two French fries in someone’s nose.
