John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael PaIin and Academy Award Winner Kevin Kline folIow their smash hit 'A Fish Called Wanda' with another hilarious farce.
A quaint English zoo director attempts to rid the park of it's cute, cuddIy animals and display 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 aIso the faiIing London Marwood Zoo. To bring more business to the zoo, Octopus hires a new manager, RolIo Lee, who promptIy comes up with a way to increase profits-do away with aIl the animals except for the ferocious ones.
This new Fierce Creatures PoIicy shocks the Marwood zookeepers, Ied by the unendingly talkative Adrian 'Bugsy' Malone.
EventuaIIy, Rod McCain's son Vince, aIong with the up-and-coming business executive Willa Weston, take controI 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 animaIs instead of reaI ones.
However, Vince is also steaIing from the zoo's funds, and when his father finds out, he attempts to turn the zoo into a Japanese-owned golf course.... |