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Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
A movie that helped plant the seeds of Saturday Night Live and gave the Zucker brothers a foot in Hollywood's door, this long-revered television and movie satire combines sex and bathroom humour with timeless sight gags and slapstick. The uproarious film spoofs everything from television commercials, movie trailers, porn, and .. Read more
| Starring | Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, John Landis |
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| Director | John Landis |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Kentucky Fried Movie
A movie that helped plant the seeds of Saturday Night Live and gave the Zucker brothers a foot in Hollywood's door, this long-revered television and movie satire combines sex and bathroom humour with timeless sight gags and slapstick. The uproarious film spoofs everything from television commercials, movie trailers, porn, and pop culture in general in a series of hysterical sketches. Infamous sketches include 'Cleopatra Schwartz', a blaxploitation spoof featuring a sexy Amazon married to a rabbi; and the extended kung fu film parody 'A Fistful of Yen'. Raunchy humour and hysterical commentary on the media are served up with reckless abandon by the likes of Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, George Lazenby, and Donald Sutherland, among countless others.
| Starring | Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, John Landis |
|---|---|
| Director | John Landis |
| Studio | ARROW FILMS |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 01 Mar 2004 Production year: 1977 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Director John Landis and scriptwriters Jerry Zucker, David Zucker and Jim Abrahams provide a consistently wacky collection of spoofs in a more hit-than-miss parody of TV commercials, B-movies, kung fu adventures and porno chic. A lot more vulgar than their later movies, which included Airplane! and Naked Gun, it's a bright and breezy anthology of the sketches the trio had already presented on stage. A cheap, cheerful and chucklesome time-waster, that includes the star quality of Donald Sutherland and George Lazenby.
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A simple case of the media munchies: a post Groove Tube variety pack offering some twenty different send-ups of... read more on Time Out
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
A film of extraordinary magnitude...
Well, perhaps not. The highlight of this hit and miss collection of skits is 'A Fistful of Yen', a superb 20 minute spoof of 'Enter the Dragon'. For that, this film has our gratitude (you'll get these quotes if you watch it!). Some of the remaining sketches are a little dated, but if you're in the mood to be entertained other amusing moments are 'That's Armageddon', 'News at Eleven', 'Feelorama' and 'The Newscaster.' I've given this film 3* overall, but the 'Fistful of Yen' sketch would get 5* by itself, so rent it for that.
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
A film of extraordinary magnitude...
Well, perhaps not. The highlight of this hit and miss collection of skits is 'A Fistful of Yen', a superb 20 minute spoof of 'Enter the Dragon'. For that, this film has our gratitude (you'll get these quotes if you watch it!). Some of the remaining sketches are a little dated, but if you're in the mood to be entertained other amusing moments are 'That's Armageddon', 'News at Eleven', 'Feelorama' and 'The Newscaster.' I've given this film 3* overall, but the 'Fistful of Yen' sketch would get 5* by itself, so rent it for that.
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Kentucky Fried Movie
A movie that helped plant the seeds of Saturday Night Live and gave the Zucker brothers a foot in Hollywood's door, this long-revered television and movie satire combines sex and bathroom humour with timeless sight gags and slapstick. The uproarious film spoofs everything from television ...
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