Sorry but Jamie lee curtis simply isn't funny…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — A Fish Called Wanda
Leoneswest — 11 years ago(August 02, 2014 01:26 AM)
Look I've followed her work even since Halloween and have much respectbut she quite simply is not funny at all.
She actually works better in comedies when she just plays the straight character (My girl 1 & 2)but trying to make her humourous will never work, and this film is certainly proof. She just can't do it. Frankly I think her best strengths are drama and horror. She can also play the sympathetic character quite well.
But she doesn't have the knack to play comedyand should avoid at all costs -
nickyblue333 — 10 years ago(February 06, 2016 12:26 PM)
I agree that she's not funny in this. But like you sort of mentioned she becomes funny when she's a sympathetic character, in True Lies for instance she was hysterical. So she can do funny but she has to be in the right character. Wanda was an unsympathetic back stabbing b**** so here it wasn't funny.