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UHF (1989)

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UHF is the film debut of comedy rock satirist Weird Al Yankovic, who also co-wrote the screenplay. George Newman (Yankovic) and his friend Bob (David Bowe from The Cable Guy) are fired from their jobs at Burger World. So George decides to take over Channel 62, a failing local TV station that his uncle Harvey (Stanley Brock) won in a poker game. George turns it around into an overnight success after letting the janitor, Stanley Spadowski (Michael Richards from Seinfeld), host a kid's show. George

PG-13, 1 hr. 37 min.

Television, Comedy

Jay Levey

Jun 4, 2002

Orion Pictures Corporation

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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (10) | DVD (15)

Literally everything but the kitchen sink, and while it doesn't always hit the sweetest notes of inspiration, it maintains a lovable spiritedness and offers the odd gut-buster. And dumb guy humor. UHF has some of the best dumb guy humor around.

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | Comment
BrianOrndorf.com

I liked it even after all those years

March 8, 2008 Comment

Forgettable Weird Al starrer...enUHF, please!

December 24, 2005 Comment

"Today, we're teaching poodles how to fly!" Michael Richards is hilarious.

December 18, 2004 Comment

Watchably amusing, nothing more.

November 22, 2004 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

If the idea of a Weird Al movie is anathema to you, just don't bother reading anything I write, ever.

June 24, 2004 Comment
New Times

Weird Al again proves himself the king of skit, spoof and everything in between

April 27, 2003 Comment
Moviehole

Scattershot satire

January 5, 2003 Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette
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Audience Reviews for UHF

If you love weird Al songs, you have to see this movie! It's so much fun, it has a bunch of movie and TV spoofs featuring him, within another funny story as well. It's cool.

September 6, 2010
ajv2688

Super Reviewer

goofy and very hysterical, you have to be in the right mood to watch it because its so silly, but hey that's Weird al in a nutshell

December 31, 2010
michael e.
Michael Edwards

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January 25, 2010:
Weird Al Returns to Hollywood
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