From the director of Animal House and the creators of Airplane and The Naked Gun comes the original madcap, most out-of-control spoof of all time. The one that started it all!! The Kentucky Fried Movie!
Featuring a cast of more than a few but less than a lot, this insane collection of comedy skits includes such now famous sketches as the Kung-Fu parody, “A Fistful of Yen”, and the legendary “Catholic School Girls in Trouble.” Enjoy the future of moviegoing with the “Feel-A-Round” theater experience. See notable and highly respected actor Donald Sutherland as the clumsiest waiter in motion picutre history. Watch such characters as Cleopatra Schwartz and Big Jim Slade tickle your funny bone until it has to be removed surgically!
Directed by John Landis and written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, and featuring appearances by ex-James Bond George Lazenby and The Incredible Hulk star Bill Bixby, The Kentucky Fried Movie is the cult classic you’ve been waiting for! It’s a virtual guarantee (not an actual guarantee) that you will not find another film iwth as many side- splitting moments of pure unadulterated hilarity as The Kentucky Fried Movie.Twenty years before the Farrelly Brothers turned raunch into acceptable film comedy, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker exploited it first. The college threesome made it big with Airplane! in 1980, but this 1977 cinematic version of their live theater show is ground zero for their talents. Like The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie is a mishmash of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies with no central theme–except their crudeness and laugh-out-loud humor. Highlights include a commercial for “Scot Free,” a board game based on the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, “The Wonderful World of Sex,” in which a couple goes through foreplay with a self- help narrator instructing them step by step, and a 20-minute spoof of Bruce Lee films entitled “A Fistful of Yen.” Brazen to a fault, the movie will reach for any punch line, no matter how crude (and those who flocked to the film’s initial release looking for R-rated sex will remember the final sketch and the infamous trailer for “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.”) Directed by then-unknown John Landis on a shoestring budget, the film has aged. But crassness, when it’s this funny, is forever. –Doug Thomas
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March 5, 2010
#1
I recommend Survivor: Borneo on DVD. A lot better than this “non sense” ROFL
March 5, 2010
#2
Some comedy classics are as funny today as they were the day they were made and others just dont hold up, this is one of those. Much like South Park is today KFM was probaby the equivilant in 1977, unfortunately for KFM its 2005 and the jokes dont even come close to holding up and are too tame to shock by todays standards. Granted they did throw in some nudity to keep this from becoming a comedy central late night rerun staple but even all of the bouncing boobs couldnt get me to crack a smile. I almost thought i was going to laugh at one part but by the time the setup was through i had already played the joke in my head 3 or 4 times and so when they delivered it i was too prepared and such was my experience with the entire film. Its probably worth seeing if your REALLY BORED AND REALLY STONED but even then dont expect too much or youll be let down like i was. I read on IMDB that David Letterman tried our for a role in this movie and they decided to go with some other forgetable actor instead, that decision about sums up this movie…….could have been more but ended up VERY forgetable.
March 5, 2010
#3
Well lets not mesh words with this review. Basically, i took a dump in a bowl and ate it and i enjoyed that more than watching this movie. It will make you more retarted every time you watch it. There should be a Surgeon General’s warning on the case.
March 5, 2010
#4
I thought this would be really funny, because David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker brought us “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” movies. But this movie wasn’t nearly as good as those. Also, it was directed by John Landis, who directed “Trading Places” and “An American Werewolf in London”, so again you might think this would be a good movie. But it’s not.
The movie is a series of sketches, which are unrelated to each other. A few of them are good, like the one with “feel around theater”, but several of them are stupid. And the martial arts spoof lasts fifteen or twenty minutes, when it was barely funny enough to fill up five minutes.
It’s definitely something to rent, not to buy.
March 5, 2010
#5
I remember this movie back in the 70′s as being much, much funnier. I bought it. I saw it and I will never watch it again. It is in the give away pile