Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

BA_Harrison Directed by John 'An American Werewolf in London' Landis and written by Jim Abrahams and David & Jerry Zucker of Airplane fame, Kentucky Fried Movie is a scattershot skit comedy in which the gags come thick and fast. Fake movie trailers, faux news reports, and mock adverts abound, with the occasional cameo from a recognisable face.As is often the case with the sketch format, the comedy is very hit and miss—perhaps even more miss than hit—but when KFM scores, it does so brilliantly, as evidenced by the film's 'feature presentation', A Fistful of Yen, a keenly observed spoof of Enter The Dragon that sees Evan C Kim mercilessly lampooning Bruce Lee with deadly accuracy (best gags: Mr Loo's speech impediment, the guy with the bullhorn, and the three kung fu dudes, Hung Well, Long Wang and Enormous Genitals).Other moments worthy of mention are the trailer for the ultimate sexploitation flick Catholic High School Girls In Trouble (so many boobs!), the appearance of Big Jim Slade during The Wonderful World of Sex (a skit that also gives us the unforgettable line the line "the female, if she is so inclined, may latch onto his honker"), the very silly Courtroom sketch ("I'd like the ladies and gentlemen of the jury to listen to a tape"), and my personal favourite, Donald Sutherland as the Clumsy Clown.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

O2D This movie was made by the people who went on to write and direct Airplane!, Top Secret! and Police Squad! Apparently they think that adding an exclamation point makes a movie funny.Maybe that's what this movie was missing?I'm sure fans of this movie would say that it's never on TV because it's edgy or some bull like that.When the truth is that it's so lame and dated that most people would never get any of what passes for jokes in this movie.Just as you are getting into the sometimes funny short sketches, it goes into a forty minute Bruce Lee parody.Since I'm under sixty, I'm not familiar with Lee so it's hard to even see it as a parody.There are lots of stupid jokes that you will get even if you never heard of karate but they are exactly that, stupid.I'm sure Bruce Lee was all the rage in the sixties or thirties or whenever these people thought they were cool but anyone born after 1970 doesn't know anything about him.Even if I had seen this when it was new, the Lee parody was just way too long.I fell asleep during that scene half a dozen times.I see that this was directed by the same guy who directed Animal House.One more reason to never see that movie.The only good thing about this movie is seeing what would later become Leslie Nielsen's shtick being done by other people.This is a movie that does not need to be seen.

mark.waltz Two segments of this early Zucker Brothers comedy stand out for me; A very quick air freshener commercial and a spoof of grade school/junior high school science videos. Most of it, however, lays there, perhaps dated, perhaps overshadowed by classic moments from TV sketch shows, maybe even more overshadowed by what the Zucker Brothers went on to do. The air freshener commercial takes the actual actresses from a commercial that aired at the time, and inserts a tag line that really makes something hit the fan, and the Zink Oxide science video spoof will bring back memories to adults of a certain age who would get this sort of thing in school, or further back, as a movie short when going to the movies meant a lot of extras besides previews, and minus the tons of commercials they've added today. The other sketches are a mixed bag, mostly the type of bag you use for comfort on an airplane, with a mixture of childish farce, a bit of T&A and the most absurd for me, a Karate movie spoof that ends with the Bruce Lee like actor in drag as a cultural icon in one of her most famous characters is the low point, but I don't see the point of karate films to begin with. What really should get a lower rating from me gets middle of the ground, because it shows the growing genius behind what would go on to create "Airplane!", the "Police Squad" films (later "Naked Gun") and influence other comic writers to give you a "Hellzapoppin'" type pain from laughing so much.

Scott LeBrun Hysterical break into movie making for the talented Jim Abrahams and David & Jerry Zucker team that would go on to great fame with the classic "Airplane!" within the next few years. This movie functions as a hysterical spoof of any kind of programming one might see in the theaters or on TV at the time. And, as has been said, this is definitely a product of its era. Younger viewers may not get a good deal of the jokes. But, overall, "The Kentucky Fried Movie" is wild stuff with the Z.A.Z. team throwing all caution to the wind and coming up with some wonderfully raunchy and outrageous stuff. There's no real through line, merely a succession of parodies. The centerpiece is a lengthy "Enter the Dragon" mockery titled "A Fistful of Yen" which has hero Loo (Evan C. Kim) hired to infiltrate the criminal empire of a man named Dr. Klahn, played by Master Bong Soo Han. Some of the Z.A.Z. team's jokes may tend towards the crude and immature, but it's such a hoot that they just throw so much stuff at us (much like "Airplane!" three years later). The pacing slows a bit during "A Fistful of Yen" but otherwise things move along quite well. TV commercials for such things as oil, zinc oxide, board games, and beer dot the busy landscape, along with spoofs of black & white courtroom shows, disaster movies, and jabs at news programming. The mock sexploitation trailer "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" and blaxploitation trailer "Cleopatra Schwartz" provide some of the brightest moments, and provide PLENTY of eye candy guaranteed to make many viewers happy. The "feel-a-round" segment is particularly funny, using director John Landis's recurring "See You Next Wednesday" in-joke (and featuring a poster of his debut movie, "Schlock"). Special guest appearances are made by such famous faces as Tony Dow from 'Leave It to Beaver', one time James Bond player George Lazenby, the great Donald Sutherland, and TV veterans Bill Bixby and Henry Gibson. Fans of 70's trash cinema will also note the presence of Marilyn Joi (as Ms. Schwartz), Tara Strohmeier, Lenka Novak, and well endowed Uschi Digard. Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker themselves appear throughout, makeup effects legend Rick Baker is the gorilla, Landis the TV technician thrown by the gorilla, and future "Airplane!" cast members Stephen Stucker and Leslie Nielsen (uncredited) are utilized as well. This is genuinely great, unrestrained material that makes a number of comedies in the years since look bland in comparison. Highly recommended to fans of sketch comedy. Eight out of 10.