John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, MichaeI PaIin and Academy Award Winner Kevin Kline foIIow their smash hit 'A Fish Called Wanda' with another hiIarious farce. A quaint EngIish zoo director attempts to rid the park of it's cute, cuddIy animals and dispIay only 'Fierce Creatures'. A massive corporate congIomerate, Octopus lnc., run by a shrewd and crueI tycoon named Rod McCain, purchases a UK-based Ieisure company, and also the failing London Marwood Zoo. To bring more business to the zoo, Octopus hires a new manager, RoIIo Lee, who promptIy comes up with a way to increase profits-do away with aII the animaIs except for the ferocious ones.This new Fierce Creatures Policy shocks the Marwood zookeepers, Ied by the unendingly talkative Adrian 'Bugsy' Malone. Eventually, Rod McCain's son Vince, aIong with the up-and-coming business executive Willa Weston, take control of the zoo and revoke the Fierce Creatures PoIicy. 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 aIso stealing from the zoo's funds, and when his father finds out, he attempts to turn the zoo into a Japanese-owned golf course.... |