Kentucky Fried Movie

Very funny, poignant, sexy movie. Don't watch this if you are a prude as there is nudity and sexual situations. If you're an adult with a normal adult frame of mind, I think you will find this hilarious.

I only gave this 4 stars because it isn't Perfect, there are a few bits in here that aren't very good. Not many but they are there. Some reviewers seem to bring up Asian stereotype (or any stereotypes). I think they are Missing the Whole Point. Kentucky fried Movie takes stereotypes to the extreme very consciously, it's a huge part of the jokes. There is no Political Correctness in this film. I love it, outside of the very few boring segments. I've seen it many times earlier but I even laughed out loud when seeing it again recently.Evan C Kim steals the show, he is fantastic as the martial artist. He knows exactly how stupid Fist Full of Yen is supposed to be and how ridiculous it is with stereotypes. Fist Full of Yen by itself is 5 stars.

HEY PRIME. PLEASE MAKE SEEING YOUR PREVIEWS AN OPTION SETTING SO I CAN STOP THEM FOREVER!1 stars: Couldn't watch more than 15 minutes. Unwatchable, or language not as described.1.5 stars: Just started it to get if off my, "movies we think you'll like", list permanently.2 stars: Jumped my way to the end for the ending. Unwatchable, but interested in how this turd ended.2.5 stars: I fell asleep, or closed my eyes for most of it.3 stars: Watched it all, but not happy about it. Nothing better to do.4 stars: I watched it, liked it well enough. Would never watch it again.5 stars: Great moving picture show! I'll watch it again, and maybe again in a few years.

From the team of director John Landis and the pre-Airplane and Naked Gun Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker trio, the Kentucky Fried Movie is the king of raunch comedy. Made in 1977 on an ultra shoestring budget, the Kentucky Fried Movie is a mish-mash of sketches, commercial parodies, fake movie trailers, and fake news reports that are all intertwined. There's plenty of unforgettable moments of hilarity throughout, including the trailers for "Cleopatra Shwartz" and the infamous "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", as well as the inspired courtroom sketch and a movie viewer's experience with "feel-o-vision". The standout however is the lengthy parody of the Bruce Lee classic Enter the Dragon entitled "Fistful of Yen" which pulls no punches and must be seen to be believed. The closing skit, in which a couple begin to have some fun on the couch while the news is on the TV, is a standout as well. One time James Bond George Lazenby and Incredible Hulk star, the late Bill Bixby, also make appearances, and they keep their faces surprisingly straight in their scenes. All in all, while Caddyshack may take the credit for being the godfather of slob comedies, no one can deny that the Kentucky Fried Movie set the stage for all the raunchy sex comedies and skits to be made in the last 25 years, and with the DVD being this cheap, there's no reason not to pick it up.

Wildly unevenly funny spoof of movies and TV from the team of John Landis and Zucker-Abrams-Zucker, who went on to do Airplane and the Naked Gun franchises.KFM is notable for its crass humor, celebrity cameos and several unrelated bits. Most of the bits are short and some aren't very funny anymore (Bill Bixby's Headache Clinic and Henry Gibson's United Appeal for the Dead are notable in the aspect, although it is great to see the former "alive again"). Working better are the movie spoofs from "Samuel L. Bronkowitz". The classic is "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", with its gratuitous nudity and inane jokes. "That's Armageddon" (with Donald Suterhland as the clumsy waiter" )is a great parody of and would probably be better than the future movie of a similar title. ZAZ also use the Bronkowitz name in their later movies.The centerpiece of the movie is Evan Kim in "A Fistful of Yen", which is part Kung Fu Movie, part adventure movie and part Wizard of Oz (this begins with Dr. Klon melting a la the Wicked Witch of the West and ends with Kim as Dorothy, complete with Auntie Em, Toto, and a very familiar figure from Klon's Mountain.) This sketch comes complete with the evil villain ( Klon, who has a number of attachments such as a hair dryer to an artifical hand), a damsel in distress (Anna) and Kim as the hero. Of course, Kim gets to use his kung fu skills to kill about 50 or 60 men. Pay attention to the end, when Kim returns to Kansas. Some of his dialgoue finds its way into the credits of a future ZAZ movie. Also used in in the future Airplane is the basketball bit, only this time it is martial arts fighters playing basketball instead of aborigines.)Another longer form sketch is "Courtroom" a black and white parody of the 1950's court shows (and better than the ones on TV today). This is replete with Tony Dow and Jerry Zucker as Wally and Beaver Cleaver, a morph into "What's My Line", and Steven Stucker as a gay court reporter, a role he would revise twice in the Airplane films. Colin Male, who was the reporter on the old Divorce Court, appears as the reporter in this spoof. Incidentally, Male's character is named "Steven McCrosky", a name that ZAZ would later use in Airplane. Also used again in Airplane is the character named "Rex Kramer".Paying their usual homage to sports, the two opposing attorneys in Courtroom are named "Hornug" and "Taylor". No doubt inspired by Green Bay Packers greats Paul Hornug and Jim Taylor.Some of the other bits include "Eyewitness News" where a news team watches a couple having sex, a spoof of the Today show (with Academy Award winning makeup artist Rick Baker as a gorilla) and a science film showing that zinc oxide is in everything.ZAZ and Landis were just warming up for their future endeavors and while KFM is very uneven, it gives us a glimpse of the genius that was yet to come.

I went to see to see this film when I was still at school (no, I wasn't 18 but things seemed easier then) and have got to say I missed half of it because I was laughing so much. It preceded Airplane and never, in my opinion, got the credit it deserved. How pleased was I when I found it again on Amazon and, although it looks a little dated now, still had me in hysterics.The film is a series of sketches with a loose TV/Film motif with silly humour and hidden gags being the order of the day. I warn you, "A Fistful of Yen" will ruin Bruce Lee films for you forever (but in a good way).

Luckily found a copy to replace my damaged one. Can still remember the day i bumped into two friends who had just seen this at the cinema and they just raved about it.

This is a incredible funny film from the past before the brilliant film AIRPLANE.

Very funny in parts a couple of duff scenes but overall a good laugh probably wouldn't be made today in our sanitised world so enjoy it while you can recommended

What can you say about this movie? It's a classic.