I'm gonna make it brief: this movie is a gem of a comedy. There is not a moment when you don't at the very least smile.
The cast is just spot on especially Kevin Kline who is just hilarious in this movie as Otto, a former CIA hitman, spouting nonsense italian words coming to his mind while sniffing himself, hates to be called stupid despite the fact that he is, drives like a maniac while shouting the A word to the poor drivers he totalled.. He got an oscar for it and my god he deserves it so much.
The rest of the cast is as hilarious as Kline especially John Cleese and Michael Palin. Michael is a genius comedian in his own way. The scenes when he tries to kill that old lady who is the main witness in his boss trial but somehow took down her dogs instead are just hilarious. Then after he realized that she died of an heart attack after losing her last pooch, he's laughing and jump out of joy while everyone else watches him in shock and dismay is hilarious as well.
John Cleese is also hilarious as Archie Leach, that British lawyer who is as politically correct as he can be, royally ignored by his family and who becomes Jamie Lee Curtis pawn so he can reveal the location of the diamonds and somehow breaks off his chains as he dances naked in an appartment he doesn't own until he's confronted by the owner and his bewildered family who freshly came back from their vacations...
Like I said Comedy Gold!
The cast is just spot on especially Kevin Kline who is just hilarious in this movie as Otto, a former CIA hitman, spouting nonsense italian words coming to his mind while sniffing himself, hates to be called stupid despite the fact that he is, drives like a maniac while shouting the A word to the poor drivers he totalled.. He got an oscar for it and my god he deserves it so much.
The rest of the cast is as hilarious as Kline especially John Cleese and Michael Palin. Michael is a genius comedian in his own way. The scenes when he tries to kill that old lady who is the main witness in his boss trial but somehow took down her dogs instead are just hilarious. Then after he realized that she died of an heart attack after losing her last pooch, he's laughing and jump out of joy while everyone else watches him in shock and dismay is hilarious as well.
John Cleese is also hilarious as Archie Leach, that British lawyer who is as politically correct as he can be, royally ignored by his family and who becomes Jamie Lee Curtis pawn so he can reveal the location of the diamonds and somehow breaks off his chains as he dances naked in an appartment he doesn't own until he's confronted by the owner and his bewildered family who freshly came back from their vacations...
Like I said Comedy Gold!