40
Cute lemurs and a couple jabs at corporate a--holery can't save Fierce Creatures from its manic malaise.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
88
San Francisco Examiner by Barbara Shulgasser
Amazing comic performances...give this comedy its lovely manic pace, kept just within the realm of sanity.
60
Amounts to a pantheistic love-in: "A Fish Called Wanda" for vegetarians.
80
The New York Times by Elvis Mitchell
The real fun here comes from watching Mr. Kline bounding through two archly good performances, Mr. Cleese coming hilariously unstrung in the presence of Ms. Curtis and all those adorable animals.
75
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
It's still a lot of fun, and I welcome any film that keeps me entertained for nearly the entire running length.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Peter Stack
A wildly funny sex farce that smartly combines big-time silliness with sophisticated wit.
63
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
With this cast, you are guaranteed moments of inspired lunacy. It's still fun watching Cleese get caught with his pants down. But the material seems familiar and overworked.
70
This good-natured movie is very much in the spirit of those ancient comedies from Ealing Film Studios in which nice, silly people defend some enclave of old-fashioned sanity against the forces of brute modernism. [27 January 1997, p. 68]
63
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Doesn't quite click.