British comedy and I have never really gotten along. I do enjoy SOME Monty Python stuff and I really do love the British Office, but this whacky, silly, sex comedy, monkey business that for some reason always involves Mr. John Cleese doesn’t do anything for me. To help illustrate my point I’ll briefly explain the plot.
Jaime Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline are put in charge of a small London Zoo that is currently being run by silly old John Cleese. His goof ball antics have gotten him in some trouble and Curtis and Kline are there to set him straight. John’s character Rollo had the big idea to only have “fierce creatures” in the zoo because violence brings in the most amount of revenue. This plot device sets up endless gags about how violent some of the cute animals can be. It gets very old very fast. There are also seems to be an endless supply of bestiality jokes pouring from the hands of the two writers of this film, John Cleese and Ian Johnstone, which can be funny under the right circumstances, but here they simply are not.
Director Fred Schepisi and I are not off to great start together, as I have not really enjoyed either of the films that I have watched from his filmography. Maybe it’s his style of directing heavily dialogue driven scripts, or his lack of interesting visuals.
There just isn’t too much to talk about with this one. It kind of sucks that I didn’t like two movies in a row, but there are so many more movies to watch. I already see a pattern developing, in that I defiantly write more about the movies I really like and a lot less about the movies I did not care for.
Up next is a horror movie that I can remember seeing previews for when I was younger, a version of Frankenstein starring Robert De Nero of all people. I hope I like this one more than the last couple. John Cleese will be the one that takes us there and I hope he leaves his collection of bestiality jokes behind.
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