This freaky project, once known as Death Fish 2, is neither a sequel nor a prequel to A Fish Called Wanda but a sort of "equal". That is, the principal actors play roughly the same sorts of characters, but with different identities, and in a different setting. It sounds like a new twist on the usual sequels thing - - after all, what were the Carry On films but exactly the same idea repeated ad nauseum? - - but it isn't. As a comedy, this works on a much higher level, despite the fact that a lot of it hinges on the idea that a series of misunderstandings convince Kline and Curtis that Cleese's sexually repressed Englishman is actually a rampant, fetishistic stud.
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