Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Ahh, British Comedy, it is in a category of its own and generally always gives what it promises. As you can tell, I liked this movie for its clever wit and simple intelligence of the main characters and the cunning schemes that they pulled. As Baldrik would say in Black Adder, I have a cunning plan. And their plans were very cunning, very clever, and quite amusing at that.Shooting Fish is about a couple of orphans, one from New York and one from England. The one from New York was a con-man who was very clever at getting money. At the age of 8 he was caught by the IRS putting money into a bank account in the Chase-Manhattan Bank. The question was, what was he doing with a bank account. The other, Jeremy, is an electronic genius and when both of them get together they are able to fleece money out of everybody.The movie opens with a little scheme where they are demonstrating a talking computer to a lot of businessmen and manage to gain lots of money off of them. The girl that they hired, a medical student, is a but suspicious but they convince her that it is all very Robin Hood - steal from the rich and give to the poor. The thing they don't tell her is that they are the poor that they give to. After they finish this scheme, they catch thieves breaking into their car and stealing a computer. At first I thought they were simple thieves, but when we visit their house and see that it is extremely opulent, I realised that they were in fact industrial spies.They live in a huge water tower in what is a home of clever gadgets and secret rooms. They are trying to save up two million dollars to buy a mansion and they salvage anything to use in their schemes to make money. Some of them are for ten thousand at a time, while others are simply fifty pound jobs where they move insulation from one house to another. It is interesting that during the insulation scam, they leave the poorer lady alone while they fleece the richer ones.Shooting Fish is a great little movie. It is not one of deep themes, it is a simple enjoyable movie where those cast out of society take back what was theirs in clever little schemes, and even though they spend a few months in gaol, it does have a happy ending. The thing I really liked is that the judge was dressed in purple. That simply shows me that they bothered to research the English courts and do a decent job at it. This movie is cool.

Call me hopelessly sentimental but I actually find this film very touching! Once you totally suspend your disbelief (this is a film, it's kind of expected...) Jez and Dylan really sell the orphans concept. Here you have two lonely, needy, love-starved guys who through hard work, self-denial and sheer determination win themselves a family and a home. How can your heart not melt? The acting by the male leads is strong enough (mostly - the 'why do I have to get so technical?' scene falters a bit) to make you invest emotionally in Dylan and Jez' quest despite the fact that - all soft-heartedness aside - they are two lying, selfish, close to morally bankrupt con-merchants. By the end of the film you'll be cheering them on.What am I saying? By five minutes in you'll be cheering them on! Yes, it's full of clichés. Yes, it's pretty predictable. Yes, it's soppy. But this film proves that you can get away with anything if you have lovable characters and a fantastic soundtrack (see also Ocean's 11). Never fails to cheer me up - I'd recommend it to anyone not entirely hard-boiled.

I remembered this film being popular when it came out, and after seeing it for the first time yesterday, I couldn't believe how bad and embarrassingly unfunny the script and story were. This film falls into the trap which other British comedies like Sliding Doors have made. It panders to outmoded unrealistic stereotypes about what Britain is like - a quaint world of red telephone boxes and bumbling, nervous Hugh Grant-like men where everyone is white and middle or upper class and speak with plums in their mouths (posh accents). This is absolute rubbish! Where's the vibrant edginess and hectic buzz of London with its multi-culturalism and ethnic diversity, and why do British film makers have to perpetuate these stale myths? I personally find it sad that British film makers think that making these kinds of patronising films is the only way to appeal to the foreign market.

If this quirky British comedy could be summed up in a word, that word would be "charming".The story is a simple, low-budget British one: two orphans scam as many people as they can for as much money as they can in an effort to buy the stately home they always dreamed of as children.Everything is going swimmingly, until they join forces with a typist, Georgie (the perfect Kate Beckinsale), and the plot leads on from there...The acting is perfect for the film, neither overstated nor low key, and suits the plot and style very well. The direction is quirky, but makes no new ground, and also fits the script to a tee.This film would be great viewing for a date (perhaps not for a lads night in), and has the simple comedy you might expect from such classic British TV series as "Only Fools and Horses", or "Last of the Summer Wine".It doesn't require much brain power, but is one of the best homegrown (British) comedies of recent(ish) years.