There's nothing to be found in Shooting Fish, a slight and silly comedy caper set in England, that can't be found in numerous other films. Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend play two good-natured scam artists who make a point of only ripping off the wealthy. In their spare time, they enter random sweepstakes and harass the phone company for free service, living a cost-free life and loving it. When they hire a beautiful medical student (Kate Beckinsale) to pose as a secretary, they claim to be modern Robin Hoods, and that the money they con out of people will eventually go to "help the orphans." What they don't tell her is that they themselves are the orphans, and that the money will go toward "a stately home" so they may retire in luxury. There's a lot of stupid humor to be found in Shooting Fish, and the token love triangle seems tacked on. But the cast exudes so much charisma and spunky charm that the film avoids descending into Dumb And Dumber territory. The scams themselves are fun and oddly plausible, and even the pair's eventual incarceration is pretty funny, especially when Futterman fruitlessly attempts to start a brawl with a forgiving bruiser. Think of a slightly less slapstick Monkees episode, throw in some breezy Burt Bacharach songs, then think of something even lighter, and you've got Shooting Fish. As a cute diversion, it's a pleasant, painless, wonderfully forgettable surprise.