Fierce Creatures (1997 film)

Why start the Monty Python solo catalog with Fierce Creatures as opposed to Brazil or A Fish Called Wanda or some tripe that has a marginal bit of Eric Idle and/or John Cleese? Well because in Time Bandits and A Fish Called Wanda they made the mistake of putting Cleese and Palin together in a movie but never together in a scene except for the chase to the airplane in A Fish Called Wanda. Fierce Creatures had the balls to make an all out zany comedy fitting the talents of their member's capabilities. In the same year as Jim Carrey made Liar Liar and Mike Myers made the first Austin Powers film Cleese, Palin, Curtis and Kline went less pretentious than they did in Wanda and I think outzaned and outhearted the big name comedy win outs of the year. So why did Fierce Creatures fall behind Mike Myers and Jim Carrey in the box office? Sodding bloody critics that's why. No one reads a critics review before seeing Austin Powers or a Jim Carrey movie and most of the critics still don't understand Python so why listen to some nitwit critics bash the irreverence of Monty Python when it is precisely that which made them great???? Anyway some terrific scenes of Michael Palin laboriously making his point when no one seems to listen and some zookeepers try to go crazy to talk sense into John Cleese (think it's a Monty Python sketch that's already been done no Eric Idle was the drone in "Travel Agent" and Palin was the one lost for reason in "Dead Parrot" Okay so it's a little like the "Argument Sketch") and then there's the heartless narcissists of Kevin Kline's two characters as they try to ruin the zoo for profit. It's a must see.