In spite of some isolated attempts along his career -The Trouble With Angels (1966) or The 'burbs (1989)-, it is not precisely the Comedy a genre on which Jerry Goldsmith had worked assiduously, although the outcome of these assigments (maybe due the difference on the material which serve as basis) has been pretty high. Something similar happens with his surprising score for Fierce Creatures, the belated sequel of the famous A Fish Called Wanda (1988), which despite its brevity is disclosed with an elegance and equillibrium worthy of the best music which, for a similar assignment, could had been composed by Georges Delerue. The mention of the late french composer it isn't gratuitous, but both the sound and certain musical gestures (soloist piano, themes of indubitable comic tradition, some chamberistic air) may recall many of his scores from the seventies; the interesting, and curious, thing is that there is no doubt that Jerry Goldsmith is behind everything. M.A.F.

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