Rude and very funny
Added 7/22/2009
I saw this at the cinema when it first came out and was quite surprised (probably an understatement!) by the nudity and general raunchiness. Watching it again recently what I had forgotten was how funny it is. The makers were clearly influenced a little by some of the early Woody Allen films like 'Take the Money and Run'. This film also points the way for Airplane and the Naked Gun etc.
The film consists of a series of spoof adverts and parodies of specific film genres. The centerpiece of which is "A Fistful of Yen", which is a marvellous comedy version of "Enter the Dragon".
Although as Amazon point out it has dated a little, I thought for a film made 32 years ago much of it was still relevant and crucially still very funny.
I picked this up very cheap in a supermarket in the UK, so shop around as there is no need to pay a lot for it.
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Outrageous TV parody
Added 6/29/2009
This movie is nothing but pure outrageous tv parody. By today's standards it's relatively tame (with the exception of the politically incorrect themes),but that's because television has changed. When KFM was released it was dead on target and one of a handful of tv parody films. The first film by the guys responsible for the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, it was a preview of things to come. Unfortunately, in these PC times films like this can't be made. And I think that's a shame. Somewhere down the line we forgot how to laugh at ourselves. Have a good laugh.
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Not hilarious.
Added 3/3/2009
There are maybe one or two good laughs in this longish 83 minute movie. For a much, much funnier movie in this vein check out "Amazon Women On The Moon". That will give you your money's worth in crude laughs. This one has the T & A, but not the humor. I found the sketches often way too long and short on anything approaching hilarity as some reviewers would have you believe. The Bruce Lee spoof was ridiculously long, the rest, short of all the T & A, largely forgetable. This movie was inane. And that's too much praise even. It may have started a genre, but fortunately that genre was largely improved upon in following years. And even then, to say it started a genre is not completely accurate. The Monty Python crew were doing ridiculous (and hilarious) sketches in their Flying Circus (1969) long before this kind of thing even took hold in the not-so-prime time players of Saturday Night Live when that first aired in 1975. According to the bios on the extras portion of this DVD though, the Zucker brothers had been doing a theater version of the Kentucky Fried movie since 1969, so who knows - maybe this kind of thing was just 'in the air' on either side of the Atlantic. John Landis, who directed The Kentucky Fried Movie, did much better things than this in Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London (great!), Trading Places, Spies Like Us and Coming to America. The Zucker Brothers, who wrote the script, also produced Airplane and Ruthless People (and the Naked Gun and Top Secret). OK, OK, watch it for history's sake, but don't expect hilarity. "Amazon Women On The Moon" is still a much better ride for your money. This one is mediocre at best.
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2 stars out of 4
Added 3/1/2009
The Bottom Line:
A textbook example of how poorly comedy ages, Kentucky Fried Movie is a series of gags from the 70s which mainly don't work anymore; occasionally funny but more often dated, it's enough to make one appreciate Airplane a little bit more.
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A bit of wicky, wacky, wicky
Added 2/10/2009
I've had this movie on VHS for years and finally go around to buying it on DVD. This movie rates in my top 5 funnest movies of the 70's. It spoofs TV commercials, TV news, documentaries, porn movies, Enter the Dragon, and court TV. It deserves the "R" rating, even by today's standards, for nudity and raunchy humor.
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Rude and very funny
Added 7/22/2009
I saw this at the cinema when it first came out and was quite surprised (probably an understatement!) by the nudity and general raunchiness. Watching it again recently what I had forgotten was how funny it is. The makers were clearly influenced a little by some of the early Woody Allen films like 'Take the Money and Run'. This film also points the way for Airplane and the Naked Gun etc.
The film consists of a series of spoof adverts and parodies of specific film genres. The centerpiece of which is "A Fistful of Yen", which is a marvellous comedy version of "Enter the Dragon".
Although as Amazon point out it has dated a little, I thought for a film made 32 years ago much of it was still relevant and crucially still very funny.
I picked this up very cheap in a supermarket in the UK, so shop around as there is no need to pay a lot for it.
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Outrageous TV parody
Added 6/29/2009
This movie is nothing but pure outrageous tv parody. By today's standards it's relatively tame (with the exception of the politically incorrect themes),but that's because television has changed. When KFM was released it was dead on target and one of a handful of tv parody films. The first film by the guys responsible for the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, it was a preview of things to come. Unfortunately, in these PC times films like this can't be made. And I think that's a shame. Somewhere down the line we forgot how to laugh at ourselves. Have a good laugh.
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Not hilarious.
Added 3/3/2009
There are maybe one or two good laughs in this longish 83 minute movie. For a much, much funnier movie in this vein check out "Amazon Women On The Moon". That will give you your money's worth in crude laughs. This one has the T & A, but not the humor. I found the sketches often way too long and short on anything approaching hilarity as some reviewers would have you believe. The Bruce Lee spoof was ridiculously long, the rest, short of all the T & A, largely forgetable. This movie was inane. And that's too much praise even. It may have started a genre, but fortunately that genre was largely improved upon in following years. And even then, to say it started a genre is not completely accurate. The Monty Python crew were doing ridiculous (and hilarious) sketches in their Flying Circus (1969) long before this kind of thing even took hold in the not-so-prime time players of Saturday Night Live when that first aired in 1975. According to the bios on the extras portion of this DVD though, the Zucker brothers had been doing a theater version of the Kentucky Fried movie since 1969, so who knows - maybe this kind of thing was just 'in the air' on either side of the Atlantic. John Landis, who directed The Kentucky Fried Movie, did much better things than this in Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London (great!), Trading Places, Spies Like Us and Coming to America. The Zucker Brothers, who wrote the script, also produced Airplane and Ruthless People (and the Naked Gun and Top Secret). OK, OK, watch it for history's sake, but don't expect hilarity. "Amazon Women On The Moon" is still a much better ride for your money. This one is mediocre at best.
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