Truly Dreadful Film

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

How sad is this?

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I was one year old when this was made...but watched it when I was maybe three or four. OK...not a good decision by my parents :) but this has always been my favorite, having a stagnant sense of humor of a 10 year old boy. Dino is gentle as a lamb... :). Definitely a pinnacle of juvenile humor. Lots of boobs and uh, midget clown whipping catholic school girls???Watching tonight, I find it strangely applicable to today with the liberal media accusations and search for "alternative fuel" :). Airplane was the more mainstream success for obvious reasons but Kentucky Fried Movie set the bar for tasteless silly movies.Must see...if you are juvenile like I am :)

This is an early work from the comedy writing trio of Zucker Abraham and Zucker who would go on to make the Airplane and Naked Gun films and the second feature length film by directed by John Landis.The film is like an adult version of Saturday Night Live mixed with Monty Python consisting of sketches, parodies of movies, news shows and ads.The centrepiece is the parody of Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon called A Fistful of Yen. you do need total concentration as it goes on for too long. I think I would liked a longer version of Cleopatra Schwartz to go with it.I first watched a scratchy pirate copy of this movie when I was a teenager and of course then the highlight was 'Catholic High School Girls in Trouble' the parody of 1970s porn films and who can forget Uschi Digart's large breasts pounding the shower screen. The 'show me your nuts' line is still sublime.There are some inspired sketches such as the film in feel-o-vision, Henry Gibson deadpan ad for being death being the number one killer in America and the Ape going berserk skit features make up effects legend and multiple Oscar winner Rick Baker.Bill Bixby, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Donald Sutherland are some of the famous star cameos.It is a little bit hit and miss and I guess it inspired the short lived US adult orientated sketch show Bizarre.

"The Kentucky Fried Movie" specializes in the tasteless. This isn't inherently a bad thing and, given the right material, can be genuinely funny. But this is not the right material.The movie is hit-or-miss on a good day, but the misses far outweigh the hits. Most of the jokes never land, and they usually wear out their welcome (Fistful of Yen just draaags, man). There were a few highlights - "Catholic School Girls in Trouble", "Big Jim Slade", "That's Armageddon", the film at eleven bumpers - but this is one of those movies I can say I've finally seen and move on. I'll stick with "Amazon Women on the Moon".5/10

When I was in college, I thought this movie was hilarious.Now that I'm older, I realize that most of the laughs are cheap and most of the humor sophomoric.The strongest part of the film is "A fistful of Yen" bit, where they send up "Enter the Dragon" with an actor who is playing Bruce Lee's part with an awful lisp. It's the kind of parody you find funny because it mocks the movie lovingly, something the producers would later do to much greater effect with the Airplane movies.There a few other funny skits, but the laughs are cheap. The only thing you can say to it is when they got a cheap laugh, they moved on to something else, unlike their later endeavors where they milked a cheap laugh for the whole movie.