The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

I've always seen this movie dubbed in italian til my man Frankie came up with an english vhs of this title. Bloody hell, that was even better!! This flick is senseless, tough and ruthless... i meant rough and toothless.

You have to see "Enter the dragon" before you watch this to avoid a complete fall of the senses in the Kung Fu episode,that is damn looong, but anyway this movie can keep you laughing your pants with episodes like the one with Woody (NIGGEEEEEEERS!)and the Special FX Theater sequence, or the sex lessons, or even else, i mean, everything in this movie sucks, the nonsense reigns, is the land of paradox...

Did i mention this is the best movie ever if you want to laugh? Airplane and Top Secret can suck on this, and actually they did!!!!

Fmovies: Countless Airplane and Police Squad and Hot Shots movies later, Kentucky Fried Movie is still the best Abrahams/Zucker collaboration. Rather then try to put a bunch of mini-parodies into a single overarcing theme like an airplane disaster flick, they just do...a bunch of parodies, each on its own. It seems like the "skit" movie is dead and long gone now, which is a shame, because I wouldn't mind seeing them take another shot at it. It's probably just as well they can't, though - some things just stand on their own.

Another reason why this movie still cracks me up. In "Fistful...", Dr. Klan is seemingly speaking in a foreign (in actuality Korean) as he welcomes the group. It is the WHAT he is saying that makes the scene even funnier. Roughly translated, he begs the pardon of Korean movie fans as he says he has been directed to "just say something in Korean" during this part. He confesses that he really has nothing to say and can't think of anything so he just apologizes to Korean movie fans for not making any sense and just babbling in Korean. I think some good self-direction on Bong Soo Hwan's part.

When calling for his bodyguards, he calls them by various Korean food items rather than real names. Crude, but hilarious, especially with his delivery.

The Kentucky Fried Movie fmovies. The writers of Airplane! honed their comedic edge a few years earlier putting this smorgasboard together. Film is a Firesign Theatre-esque "comedy anthology", a group of generally good comedy skits centered around a very funny martial arts take-off. Ages rather well despite being frequently copied. The persons responsible for this movie have my gratitude.

Basically the same sort of thing as Ken Shapiro's "The Groove Tube", "The Kentucky Fried Movie" portrays a series of satirical TV skits...which of course means chock full of stuff that would never get on TV. It's not as good as "The Groove Tube", but if you don't come away from this one nearly hoarse - if not dead - from laughter, then you must lack a sense of humor. It's hard to say what my favorite part was, but I sure wouldn't have minded getting in trouble with those Catholic high school girls! So anyway, it's a real treat. Feel-a-rama, the botched news broadcast, Point/Counterpoint, and last but not least the martial arts spoof, they all show what satire is all about.

I wonder if "Deep Throat" was supposed to be something about Watergate. If so, then that would have been some scandal!

There's something to be said for any movie that actually has a character named "Enormous Genitals". This is the first movie by the Zucker Brothers, the same geniuses that brought us Airplane, Top Secret and the Naked Gun movies. Haven't seen this yet? Pull up a nice comfy chair and get ready for 90 of the most hilarious minutes of film you can find. Cleopatra Schwartz is a riot, A Fistful Of Yen is the best spoof of Enter The Dragon or any Kung Fu film ever. The mock commercials are funny too. Anybody with Attention Deficit Disorder like me, this is the movie for you. It never stops moving, not for a minute. Henry Gibson's bit roll in this will have you laughing for days. But it's Samuel L. Bronkowitz's presentation of Catholic High School Girls In Trouble that will sit in you the longest. Best line: "Show me your/you're nuts! They certainly have.