The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Kentucky Fried Movie
R | 10 August 1977 (USA)
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A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

Reviews
Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined
Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
videorama-759-859391 This is a classic undying satire, and probably the greatest satirical movie, ever made. Featuring a few famous people, famous in their day, TKFM, is one of a kind, where we remember what movies used to be liked, and why we loved them. It's offbeat, originality, like KFC chicken itself, is what really gives it flavor, and there are hit and miss jokes, people will find, funnier if viewing it, in it's time. It is very smart original satire, and that is what I kept feeling throughout. And again, I re-iterate, it's one of a kind, it's biting satire, is what will surprise you, much more today if you first watche dit. One skit that takes up a chunk of time, kindof annoying, but it's bloody funny, takes a poke at Enter The Dragon, and we see a cinema watching style, very much out of the ordinary, in another clip. We get so into the satire of the movie, it ends too soon. It's like a wild roller coaster ride where gags keep coming at you, and you don't know what's coming in the next frame. It's like you being inundated with gags, the film even taking a poke at it's title, partly, with greasy fat, being expelled out of KFC boxes. But whatever you do, don't miss The Kentucky Fried Movie, it's great
Mihai Toma This "movie" presets a series of shorts which parody famous movies and real life situations in a hilarious way. TV commercials, news bulletins, horoscope, Kung-Fu movies with their typical sounds and even "The Wizard of Oz"... nothing escapes their mockery. Although funny by themselves, they sometimes tend to become exaggerated and thus resulting in a state of boredom from which only some more laughter can come to the rescue. It is funny, as a whole, but when you don't rely on anything else (a story or some kind of connection between them), it becomes hard to make a proper movie, let alone a very good one. It's good for raising up your mood, or for a good time with some friends but nothing more.
Chase_Witherspoon Probably doesn't scale the heights of "Flying High", but it's on par in my opinion with "Naked Gun" insofar as the parody stylings of the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams go, and worthy of cult status. Essentially, it's a series of vignettes without any linkage, that spoofs (among others) "Enter the Dragon", "The Wizard of Oz", "Leave it to Beaver", any courtroom movie you care to mention, and the contemporary favourite, blue movie industry (e.g. "Behind the Green Door").Evan C.Kim is hilarious as the Bruce Lee imitation, playing out (almost scene for scene) the Master's exploits from "Enter the Dragon", even down to the detail of his encounters with Dr Han's (here, played by Master Bong Soo Han) guards ("Let's meet the guards!"). There's great mileage in a steamy "preview" of "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", starring fictitious "Linda Chambers" (no prizes for guessing the amalgam) daring one stud to show her his nuts (Steven Bishop no less!) with an hilarious response. Some audiences might also recognise the amply attributed Uschi Digart in a prolonged shower scene, while Donald Sutherland, Henry Gibson and Bill Bixby bring some A-list credibility to bear in speedy cameos.There's a couple of minor misfires, and it's certainly not suitable for kids but generally speaking, this is one of the most consistently hilarious films I've ever had the pleasure of watching - over and over again for the last twenty-something years. I never tire of seeing George Cheung (as Guard number two) announce his name - Long Wang - then explain how he would wake Dr Han if he was his alarm clock. If you don't find this film funny, no offence intended, but you may need to see somebody.
Cinema_Fan First impressions, in general, may count as the most important, but, as a movie, this first from the team that brought us the magnificent and refined narrative lead Airplane! three years later has most certainly given us the impression of more in the sense of what was to come rather than what had arrived.Yes, this concept may not have been an all together new idea, comedy, parody sketches were so far in the past tense with the likes of televisions Monty Python's Flying Circus and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In that this The Kentucky Fried Movie may have been a brave venture to project such short works' onto the Big Screen.With great vision and determination to fill a niche, it contains parody commercials, news broadcasting, breakfast T. V., television appeals and of course there is the sex. It's all so pre-PC, so care-free in its stance that it even, after all these years, has its laugh-out-loud moments and, also, its cringe worthy moments too, it hasn't aged all that well in presentation but the upbeat and, in today's perspective, daring gags still works well. We can, now in hindsight, see the fruitiness of this up and coming team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, unfortunately, at the time, no one else could or would.It may be best to see this first venture sooner than its latter contenders, for it may take the shine off this work, you see, it had virtually no budget, even at an average $600,000 - $1,000,000 this was such a minuscule amount. Taking into account the despairing production and excessive amateurish feel, it was a highly successful Independent movie that grossed some several million dollars in return. It seemed that this was to be a fruitful venture after all, as with the televisions' sketches; this too, had big names dropping in, names such as George (James Bond) Lazenby, Bill (The Incredible Hulk) Bixby, Henry Gibson and Donald Sutherland to add a little weight to the proceedings. It also has the sense and style of Monty Pythons great parody sketch film of 1971 And Now for Something Completely Different. On account, The Kentucky Fried Movie may have been seen much too late in the running order of things, been around the block, established itself as a cult status and given a healthy return, but, on first impressions it is dated, it is basic and it is crude to say the least. On reflection it is also fun, it is, or was, also that little bit daring and it is a respectable and honourable piece of work, that a bunch of people had believability in and took the chance, and won. Very impressionable.