Kentucky Fried Movie

Movie arrived quickly and in great shape! I’m rewatching the movie with the commentary track and it’s fun listening to them reminisce about it. Not sure what to say about it. The bits are all over the place, but they work once you “go with the flow”. It would be interesting to watch this with a diverse group of people and then talk about it.

From the team of director John Landis and the pre-Airplane and Naked Gun Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker trio, the Kentucky Fried Movie is the king of raunch comedy. Made in 1977 on an ultra shoestring budget, the Kentucky Fried Movie is a mish-mash of sketches, commercial parodies, fake movie trailers, and fake news reports that are all intertwined. There's plenty of unforgettable moments of hilarity throughout, including the trailers for "Cleopatra Shwartz" and the infamous "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", as well as the inspired courtroom sketch and a movie viewer's experience with "feel-o-vision". The standout however is the lengthy parody of the Bruce Lee classic Enter the Dragon entitled "Fistful of Yen" which pulls no punches and must be seen to be believed. The closing skit, in which a couple begin to have some fun on the couch while the news is on the TV, is a standout as well. One time James Bond George Lazenby and Incredible Hulk star, the late Bill Bixby, also make appearances, and they keep their faces surprisingly straight in their scenes. All in all, while Caddyshack may take the credit for being the godfather of slob comedies, no one can deny that the Kentucky Fried Movie set the stage for all the raunchy sex comedies and skits to be made in the last 25 years, and with the DVD being this cheap, there's no reason not to pick it up.

Great movie

Interesting movie as the first effort of the Zucker Brothers & Jim Abrams (Airplane! Naken Gun, Police Squad...) and directed by John Landis. Many of the vignettes are very funny, some out there, a few not quite my taste.

The _Kentucky Fried Movie_ was created by the same crew who would later make the movie _Airplane_, and if you like _Airplane_'s screwball humor, you'll like _Kentuck Fried Movie_. The one caveat is that _Kentucky Fried Movie_ is much raunchier than _Airplane_. The cover art is a bit innocuous, so be warned if there's kids in the room. As long as you're okay with that, be prepared for a wild ride! I've never seen any other movie that does so deftly combines slapstick physical comedy (like the usher in the cinema skit) with fairly sophisticated dry humor (the parody of talk shows and Jacque Cousteau), social parody ("AM Today" and the intermittent news flashes), and fairly explicit sexual humor. In addition to regular skits, there are also a number of spoof movie previews, like "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" and "That's Armageddon!", that make the movie worth seeing all by itself. I've yet to recommend this to someone and have a bad reaction, but I'm also pretty careful to only recommend it to people who won't be easily offended. But as long as you're not a prude, _Kentucky Fried Movie_ should have SOMETHING that you'll like!

This goofy, low budget spoof still stands up after three decades and offers more and more each time you watch it. With a bit of crazy randomness to it, the main collection of cheesy TV style entertainment is solid. Even better is the commentary which explains not only how but why they made the choices that they did.

If you are a fan of sight gags, one - liners, and good ol' sarcasm, please get you mitts on this flick. It's loaded with just about anything that a twisted mind can dream up and toss it in a movie. Really when I first say this back in college, I almost had to be carried out of the theater. This will KILL you.... with laughter of course. I won't go into any detail on what the movie's about. If I did I'll have to kill you, ha, ha... Find out for yourself. Oh, by the way... do you know any Catholic school girl???

Wildly unevenly funny spoof of movies and TV from the team of John Landis and Zucker-Abrams-Zucker, who went on to do Airplane and the Naked Gun franchises. KFM is notable for its crass humor, celebrity cameos and several unrelated bits. Most of the bits are short and some aren't very funny anymore (Bill Bixby's Headache Clinic and Henry Gibson's United Appeal for the Dead are notable in the aspect, although it is great to see the former "alive again"). Working better are the movie spoofs from "Samuel L. Bronkowitz". The classic is "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", with its gratuitous nudity and inane jokes. "That's Armageddon" (with Donald Suterhland as the clumsy waiter" )is a great parody of and would probably be better than the future movie of a similar title. ZAZ also use the Bronkowitz name in their later movies. The centerpiece of the movie is Evan Kim in "A Fistful of Yen", which is part Kung Fu Movie, part adventure movie and part Wizard of Oz (this begins with Dr. Klon melting a la the Wicked Witch of the West and ends with Kim as Dorothy, complete with Auntie Em, Toto, and a very familiar figure from Klon's Mountain.) This sketch comes complete with the evil villain ( Klon, who has a number of attachments such as a hair dryer to an artifical hand), a damsel in distress (Anna) and Kim as the hero. Of course, Kim gets to use his kung fu skills to kill about 50 or 60 men. Pay attention to the end, when Kim returns to Kansas. Some of his dialgoue finds its way into the credits of a future ZAZ movie. Also used in in the future Airplane is the basketball bit, only this time it is martial arts fighters playing basketball instead of aborigines.) Another longer form sketch is "Courtroom" a black and white parody of the 1950's court shows (and better than the ones on TV today). This is replete with Tony Dow and Jerry Zucker as Wally and Beaver Cleaver, a morph into "What's My Line", and Steven Stucker as a gay court reporter, a role he would revise twice in the Airplane films. Colin Male, who was the reporter on the old Divorce Court, appears as the reporter in this spoof. Incidentally, Male's character is named "Steven McCrosky", a name that ZAZ would later use in Airplane. Also used again in Airplane is the character named "Rex Kramer". Paying their usual homage to sports, the two opposing attorneys in Courtroom are named "Hornug" and "Taylor". No doubt inspired by Green Bay Packers greats Paul Hornug and Jim Taylor. Some of the other bits include "Eyewitness News" where a news team watches a couple having sex, a spoof of the Today show (with Academy Award winning makeup artist Rick Baker as a gorilla) and a science film showing that zinc oxide is in everything. ZAZ and Landis were just warming up for their future endeavors and while KFM is very uneven, it gives us a glimpse of the genius that was yet to come.

Voyez ce film (si vous avez encore un lecteur de DVD) de 1977! Vous ne serez pas décu et je le recommande spécialement à Monsieur Gad Elmaleh il se sentira moins seul dans ce monde de brute

Great movie. That I was having a hard time finding. Hilarious. Holds up even today. A classic movie.

Per tutti gli amanti del genere, un dvd da non perdere. Spedizione lampo ho trovato quello che cercavo da tempo. Confezione ricca 2 dvd contenuti speciali e poster del film.

My VHS copy was staring to wear out...glad to have this to replace it.

Datedand NOT PC, but still funny. probably not for more modern 'viewer'.