薇拉（杰米·李·柯蒂斯 Jamie Lee Curtis 饰）是同事和上司眼中公认的女强人，工作能力出色情商智商在线的她深受客户的信赖和喜爱。然而，在去新公司报道的第一天，薇拉震惊的发现，公司竟然被转让了，而她面临着三个选择：前往分公司就职，加入公司的出版部门，或是负责管理英国动物园 最终，薇拉选择了第三个选项，她野心勃勃的想要把人气低迷的动物园打造成一个专门展示凶猛动物的主题游乐园。为了实现自己的野心蓝图，薇拉拉了老板的儿子入伙，就在这个节骨眼上，薇拉的上司将一个名叫罗洛（约翰·克立斯 John Cleese 饰）的男人派到了动物园，成为了那里的主管。
I think the whole Octopus philosophy is poison. The only aim of any and every McCain business is to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire *another* business to downsize, etc., etc., without ever running a single one of them really well. And if anyone ever raises the question of quality, they're immediately attacked as an elitist, because at Octopus it's considered morally offensive to talk about anything but money. All so that Mr. Rod McCain can feel a little more powerful every day. That's why, instead of running this *wonderful* zoo - properly - we've got to spoil it in order to finance his next *mindless* acquisition.
被收购后开会是为了想法子裁剪本金，并挤出20%上交给总公司。以便让董事长收购更多的公司，并让他们将本金裁半并挤出更多的20%收购更多的公司。nn大家多向钱看，要在保本的情况下缩减本金。不要天马行空地追求质量搞那些精英主义。公司全体员工努力的目的就是把原本合格的质量搞垮然后凑出钱来给领导筹备下一次审查和批评。
换句话来说，“合久必分反之亦然”这种大银行分出小银行后再以担保的名义在其破产后收购接管-这种脱了裤子放屁之后闻回来再把裤子穿上-的做法，反而还意外地障眼和文明。
破产了钱呢？保险公司下错单然后骗贷的跑了。领导受处分了。钱呢？继续再往银行存钱就有钱了。银行哪会没钱？
原话：
I think the whole Octopus philosophy is poison. The only aim of any and every McCain business is to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire *another* business to downsize, etc., etc., without ever running a single one of them really well. And if anyone ever raises the question of quality, they're immediately attacked as an elitist, because at Octopus it's considered morally offensive to talk about anything but money. All so that Mr. Rod McCain can feel a little more powerful every day. That's why, instead of running this *wonderful* zoo - properly - we've got to spoil it in order to finance his next *mindless* acquisition.