Fierce Creatures Page #9

Synopsis: A massive corporate conglomerate, Octopus Inc., run by a shrewd and cruel tycoon named Rod McCain, purchases a UK-based leisure company, and also the failing London Marwood Zoo. To bring more business to the zoo, Octopus hires a new manager, Rollo Lee, who promptly comes up with a way to increase profits-do away with all the animals except for the ferocious ones. This new Fierce Creatures Policy shocks the Marwood zookeepers, led by the unendingly talkative Adrian "Bugsy" Malone. Eventually, Rod McCain's son Vince, along with the up-and-coming business executive Willa Weston, take control of the zoo and revoke the Fierce Creatures Policy. Vince instead comes up with many under-handed and vicious schemes to attract customers-unauthorized celebrity endorsements, shoddy, overpriced zoo merchandise, and using robotic animals instead of real ones. However, Vince is also stealing from the zoo's funds, and when his father finds out, he rears to turn the zoo into a Japanese-owned golf course.
Genre: Comedy
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
PG-13
Year:
1997
93 min
303 Views


- It would be a privilege, Mr. McCain.

- Thank you.

What do you mean, a new will?

As a result of my talk with Vince,

I've decided to leave Octopus to him.

- What?

- Hold still!

- Leave Octopus to Vince?

- Shut up! He's a good boy.

Good boy?

He's a total wanker, Rod!

I won't have you

talk about him like that!

Rod, he steals from you.

That's only to get the attention I

should've given him when he was a child!

But you can't leave Octopus

to that a**hole!

That a**hole is my son!

I love him.

But you're always saying

what a complete wuss he is.

I am not--

going to let you

talk about him in that way.

- Are you all right, mate?

- I'm feeling emotional.

What's that?

- It's where I keep my Kleenex.

- He's very depressed, Neville.

Isn't it wonderful to see a man

get in touch with his feelings?

- There's something going on here.

- Oh, I hope so.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

I need to be alone.

Feeling a bit suicidal.

What?

This isn't like Rod!

Hey! He's in the shed!

- What?

- He's in the shed!

Gentlemen, I admit it.

I behaved disgracefully

to my son in the past.

I don't know if I can

live with myself.

So, going to the shed.

Mother always said that when

you're naughty, you go to the shed.

And I've been naughty.

God, I'm depressed!

Going to the shed.

- It's going well. Where's the body?

- Over there.

Come on, come on! Give it here.

Let's go! We gotta go!

What is going on?

- He and Vince did get very upset.

- It was so touching.

Oh, God. I've undervalued

Vince's talent all these years.

And his extraordinary charm.

Let's not forget that.

What a dear boy he was,

my Vince, and still is.

Good-looking young lad.

Christ, he's attractive.

- Such style!

- Where is Vince?

- That's a good question.

- Vince?

I never went to one of my

birthday parties, the bastard!

- His! His!

- His birthday parties, the bastard!

I'm the bastard! I'm such a bastard

I can't stand it anymore!

I can't face it! Oh, the shame!

I feel terrible!

I don't know what I'm gonna do,

but I've got a pretty shrewd idea...

it's not gonna be very nice!

- I'm taking the wuss's way out!

- Is he all right?

He's probably in one

of his black moods.

What black moods?

End of the road! I can't take it

any longer! I'm going to finish it now!

My God!

- Has he got a gun?

- Gun? What gun?

Where's the gun?

The gun!

What?

I'm at the end of the road!

I'm very near the end.

I'm gonna--

I can see the end of the road.

I'm makin' up my mind.

It's not an easy--

He's forgiven you.

Be sensible!

At least it looks like

the end of the road.

Now I'm thinkin' about it.

I'll make my mind up

any moment now.

I love you, kid.

Forgive me.

Hurry! Hurry!

One! Two! Come on!

- Oh, no!

- Don't look!

- Why were your men so slow?

- Sorry, we didn't realize--

- This isn't Rod McCain.

- What?

I spent 1 5 years working at Octopus,

and this isn't Rod McCa--

I was in the garden

when I heard a gunshot--

- Father!

- I'm afraid he's dead.

- No!

- Yes.

- What are you doing?

- He shot himself.

No! Why?

He wasn't in one of his

black moods, was he?

He just couldn't live

with what he'd done to you.

- But I'd forgiven him.

- I know.

Oh, Dad! Dad! Dad!

- Vince.

- What?

- There's something you should know.

- What?

He left Octopus to you.

So he did love me after all!

You're fired.

Rollo, there's something

I need to ask you.

It's about sex.

What?

Look, I know what you like.

When we first called,

you had three women in your bed.

- What?

- Remember Mitzi and Suzie and Cindy?

And then

when we came to your room...

you had at least four girls

in the bathroom.

They were all over you

in the cage.

And then the other night in the hotel,

you had two girls...

as well as the--

Look, Willa--

Look, Rollo,

I really like you.

But I was just wondering

if one woman...

could ever be enough...

for a man like you.

Oh, what the hell.

Let's give it a try.

- But I have to warn you, Wanda--

- Willa.

I haven't slept with one woman

for a very, very long time.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. more…

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