Fatal Instinct

A brilliant film noir parody of the likes of basic instinct, Cape fear and fatal attraction mixed with the comedy styling of airplane, naked gun and hot shots... What is not to love about this? Sean Young of Ace Ventura and Blade Runner playing a brilliant Femme Fetale, Armande Asante making a perfect noir style detective... The film is hilarious and no matter how many times I watch it, it never fails to crack me up. I'd say this is an essential watch for anyone that is a fan of Abraham/Zucker movies.

This film has been repeated like 4 times on cable TV here in Sweden in the past year! I watched it the first showing (last year) and it is SO my type of movie. I read what it was about and thought I had to see it since I had seen some of the movies it made fun of. All I can say is that most, or all the jokes are so hilarious. They are very "kind" or shall I say "simple" ones, but this is the kind of movie you watch when you don't want anything deep, but just a funny movie which is "easy watching". Not only is it funny, it also has the beautiful Sherilyn Fenn which is very nice of course :) I highly recommend you see it, because even though I didn't "laugh my *** off", it was such an amusing movie to watch! Jens

Strange, but when I think about this one, the expression "oldie but goodie" comes to mind. After sitting through countless comedies and parodies with gross and often times just plain bad jokes (try scary movie) one might wonder if it is actually possible to have a really brilliant spoof without insulting humor. Well, it is. And just to see how good a well-made parody can be, try this one. Of course, it would help having been a late 80s early 90s movie fan, but that is not a prerequisite. And, without going into too many details, this one effectively proves that a parody/comedy can actually be original.

Considering that Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks* got their start writing for Sid Caesar's show, it makes sense that the two would have a similar style of humor. And believe you me, you've NEVER seen an erotic thriller like Reiner's "Fatal Instinct". It's basically the Marx Brothers meet film noir, with a-gag-every-few-seconds humor. If you've seen "Airplane!" or the Naked Gun movies, then you know what to expect here. And damned if Sean Young, Sherilynn Fenn and Kate Nelligan aren't some real babes. To be certain, Nelligan looks like Ginger on "Gilligan's Island". All in all, a hilarious one. *Reiner based Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam's character on "The Dick Van Dyke Show") on Mel Brooks.