Both films star John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin.

Willa Weston arrives in Atlanta to take a high-ranking position in a company recently acquired by Octopus Inc.'s owner, Rod McCain.

The zoo's newly appointed director is a retired Hong Kong Police Force officer and former Octopus Television employee, Rollo Lee.

Rollo then finds a visitor who has had a genuine accident but, not believing it is real, tastes her blood whilst loudly proclaiming that it is fake.

Vince covers both the zoo and animals alike with advertisements after garnering sponsors, dresses the staff in ridiculous outfits, and installs an artificial panda in one of the enclosures.

His continued attempts to seduce Willa fail, while she comes to enjoy working at the zoo after connecting with a silverback gorilla.

Worried that the visit might be part of a plan to close the zoo, Rollo and the zookeepers bug Rod's hotel room to find out.

Discovering Vince has stolen sponsorship money he raised, Willa warns him to return it, or she will tell Rod.

As Rollo attempts to work out how the theft can be traced, he and Willa finally kiss, just as Vince arrives to return the money.

The movie was based on a sketch written by Palin and Terry Jones in 1967 for Comedy Playhouse about a zoo that is taken over by a man who just wants to stock it with dangerous animals.

The delay meant that director Robert Young was busy on pre-production for Jane Eyre, so Cleese hired Fred Schepisi, with whom he had been discussing making a version of Don Quixote.

[5] Lindsay wrote in his memoirs: "Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline, who are both fantastic people, had tough American lawyers and agents around them throughout the shoot and were able to dictate changes to their benefit and to our detriment.

"[6] Corbett recalled that Schepisi "was full of confidence and imagination, but even then it didn’t really turn out right — which confirmed my theory that there is a limit to the amount of tweaking you can do on these occasions.

"[4] In November, Palin wrote: "Word is that the Monday screening and ‘focus group’ out on Long Island didn’t go well.

So, after all these years of time, energy, money and hard graft, FC looks likely to be a 90-minute quickie, its shape and content decided eventually by 20 people in Long Island.

The site's critical consensus reads "Fierce Creatures reunites A Fish Called Wanda's talented ensemble for a comedy that, while not without its moments, suffers from diminishing returns".