| Kentucky Fried Movie | 
| Actors: Jim Abrahams, Anna Crawford, Barry Dennen, Rick Gates, Marcy Goldman
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (96 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5351
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 83 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Picture Format: Array
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: ANBD11117D
ISBN: 6305840083
UPC: 013131111798
EAN: 9786305840084
ASIN: 6305840083
Release Date: June 20, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: August 10, 1977
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Description
From the director of Animal House and the creators of Airplane and The Naked Gun comes the original madcap, most out-of-control spoof of all time. The one that started it all!! The Kentucky Fried Movie! Featuring a cast of more than a few but less than a lot, this insane collection of comedy skits includes such now famous sketches as the Kung-Fu parody, "A Fistful of Yen", and the legendary "Catholic School Girls in Trouble." Enjoy the future of moviegoing with the "Feel-A-Round" theater experience. See notable and highly respected actor Donald Sutherland as the clumsiest waiter in motion picutre history. Watch such characters as Cleopatra Schwartz and Big Jim Slade tickle your funny bone until it has to be removed surgically! Directed by John Landis and written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, and featuring appearances by ex-James Bond George Lazenby and The Incredible Hulk star Bill Bixby, The Kentucky Fried Movie is the cult classic you've been waiting for! It's a virtual guarantee (not an actual guarantee) that you will not find another film iwth as many side- splitting moments of pure unadulterated hilarity as The Kentucky Fried Movie.
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Twenty years before the Farrelly Brothers turned raunch into acceptable film comedy, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker exploited it first. The college threesome made it big with Airplane! in 1980, but this 1977 cinematic version of their live theater show is ground zero for their talents. Like The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie is a mishmash of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies with no central theme--except their crudeness and laugh-out-loud humor. Highlights include a commercial for "Scot Free," a board game based on the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, "The Wonderful World of Sex," in which a couple goes through foreplay with a self- help narrator instructing them step by step, and a 20-minute spoof of Bruce Lee films entitled "A Fistful of Yen." Brazen to a fault, the movie will reach for any punch line, no matter how crude (and those who flocked to the film's initial release looking for R-rated sex will remember the final sketch and the infamous trailer for "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.") Directed by then-unknown John Landis on a shoestring budget, the film has aged. But crassness, when it's this funny, is forever. --Doug Thomas
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 Still funny January 8, 2009
First time I saw this movie I nearly wet my pants laughing, and I still am laughing.
Brilliant December 7, 2008
This movie is thirty to forty years ahead of its time. If you watch it and "set it" you'll know what I mean.
Great movie if you'd rather go partying, but cannot December 3, 2008
If you've seen and enjoyed the much more popular "Airplane" movies that made fun of the "Airport" series, this is the movie that got that brand of slapstick parody movie going. It is not sophisticated humor of any sort. It is not even a movie with a storyline really, so much as it is a series of several skits. Anyone who doesn't like puns must turn away now. This movie is full of them. While it is not a dirty movie per se, it is rated "R" and clearly not something you want your 9-year-old to see. There is some nudity that makes fun of pornography.
An important consideration is the age of the movie: If this were 1977, I'd give it the full five stars. Much of the satire is based on the TV commercials, politics, styles and social trends of the day. Anyone young enough to not remember them would have some trouble getting the full impact of the jokes. As a result, I gave it only four stars because of their irrelevance to today. If nothing else, watch it with someone who is 50 or so who can explain the background of some of the skits.
Classic,original, and funny November 25, 2008
There wasn't many spoof movies made when this one came out, that's what makes this an original classic. Even when I was young and watched this, my brother and I both laughed. 25 yrs. later , I am still laughing, every time I watch it.
If your around 25 yrs. old or younger you probably won't enjoy it, this movie spoofs others from 70's and early 80's era.
But if you're mature adult and enjoy comedy of that era, you should get this.
It started it all. November 23, 2008
Love this movie. Its skits influenced so many movies and TV shows that came after it.
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