UHF

UHF

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• Condition: New
• Format: DVD
• Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC

Movie Reviews of UHF

Movie Review: UHF has it all! It has it all! On DVD! It has it all on DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

Behind the scenes footage is pretty funny and interesting at the same time. You learn that Victoria Jackson who played Terri jumped at the chance to be Al's girlfriend as she had always wanted to play her after hearing Al's classic love song One More Minute. You also learn that Orion thought this would be the film to save them. They were wrong.

There is commentary you can turn on for the entire movie by "Weird Al", Victoria Jackson, Michael Richards and Jay Levi. You'll learn all about how they shot the movie, what other things every actor in the movie has appeared in. Al talks about how lots of fans claim the David Bowie was in his movie in their reviews and facts like the actor who played Raul (teaching poodle's how to fly) was killed by a drunk driver during filming and was supposed to have more scenes.

Posters is a heap of still shots of the various cover designs and posters that UHF had in different countries such as here in Australia where it was called The Videot from UHF. The differences between cover designs for each country is quite fascinating.

There are a lot of still shots from the movie or of the actors in the costumes which is worth a look.

Music Video is the UHF song video which has images of Al dressed up as various 80's rock stars together with scenes from the film. Some of those portrayed are Guns N Roses, Wham, ZZ top and Robert Palmer. I never even knew this was released as a single and was expecting music video to be Money For Nothing from the movie and was pleasantly surprised.

You can see two trailers for the UHF movie a short one and a longer one. They're pretty interesting as you probably never saw them or remember them. It's great to see how the picture was marketed by Orion in those days.

You can also watch the movie with English, French and Spanish subtitles so that you know when you get older and can't hear as well you'll still be able to enjoy this masterpiece. Also great if learning another language and want to know how to say stuff like, "So Stupid!" "Twinkie Weiner Hotdogs!" and "My Mop!" in French or Spanish.
You never know when you'll need these when travelling.

UHF is the original and still probably the best parody movie of all time. Although already hugely successful in the music industry with parodies such as Fat, Eat It and Like a Surgeon this 1989 classic was "Weird Al" Yankovic's first venture into the world of motion pictures.

UHF thrilled audiences in 1989 as we all sat glued to the screens watching Indian Jones decide that estimating the weight of an oscar with that of sand from the bag in his hand was too hard and eventually being flattened by the huge round boulder as the opening credits rolled. UHF followed the story of a nerdy young man named George Newman ("Weird Al" Yankovic) with too much imagination for everyday mundane jobs who is given the job of running his uncle Marty's local fledgling UHF station that he'd won in a hand of poker. With the help of his friends (David Bowe), (Fran Drescher from The Nanny), the janitor Stanley Spadowski (Seinfield's Michael Richards) and a few other friends George Newman redevelops the station's shows and takes the struggling UHF station to the top of the television world, even out rating the big free to air networks.

With movies such as Conan the Librarian and Ghandi II No More Passive Resistance channel 62 tops the ratings. TV shows such as Towntalk an early version of Jerry Springer where guests such as the Ku Klux Klan chat with lesbian nuns from outerspace, Wheel of Fish, Raul's Wild Kingdom (see Poodles learning to fly) and Stanley Spadowski's clubhouse the UHF station was destined to become the target of the evil R.J. Fletcher and his major television network. A battle erupts between the two stations and with R. J Fletcher set on turning channel 62 into a parking lot there can only be one winner.

This sensational movie has stood the test of time. Just watching for a glimpse of all the famous sitcom actors 15 years younger is worth the price tag alone.

Summary of UHF