Kentucky Fried Movie
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Actor: Anna Crawford, Barry Dennen, Jim Abrahams, Marcy Goldman, Rick GatesBrand: BIXBY/ZUCKER/ABRAHAM/SUTHERLAN
Primary Contributor: Jim Abrahams
Primary Contributor: Zucker, David
Primary Contributor: Zucker, Jerry
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Kentucky Fried Movie
Movie Review: Not hilarious.
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Summary of Kentucky Fried Movie
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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