the story centers as much as a London zoo which has been recently acquired by Australian businessman Rod McCain (played by Kevin Kline) and anaesthetize a charge of Rollo Lee (Cleese). Sequentially to boost successfully, Lee decides to institute the 'fierce animals' policy; merely fatal beast is featured in the menagerie.

Course, chaos ensues when a zookeepers (including Michael Palin as a insect keeper) protest at the at hand loss of their loved, though non human-eating, sensual friends. Meanwhile, Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Vince McCain, Rod's boy (Kline around his 2nd role of a film) arrive at the zoological garden when observers for Rod McCain's company, apiece with the family agenda.

A film was dedicated to Gerald Durrell.