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.
UHF (1989)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:12
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Funnyman "Weird" Al Yankovic stars in this comedy as George Newman, a man who takes over a low-rent TV station won by his uncle in a poker game. Newman's unconventional methods for boosting ratings... Funnyman "Weird" Al Yankovic stars in this comedy as George Newman, a man who takes over a low-rent TV station won by his uncle in a poker game. Newman's unconventional methods for boosting ratings include giving the station's janitor his own children's program -- with spectacularly successful results. Complications ensue when the unscrupulous head of a rival network tries to drive Newman off the air, but there's still plenty of time out for fantasy music video segments and TV bits which showcase Yankovic's talents as a parodist. [More]
Starring: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards
Starring: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Fran Drescher, Emo Philips, David Bowe, Stan Brock, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, John Paragon, Sue Ane Langdon, David Proval, Grant James, Jay Levey, Nik Hagler
Director: Jay Levey
Director: Jay Levey
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If the idea of a Weird Al movie is anathema to you, just don't bother reading anything I write, ever.
If the plot structure of UHF leaves something to be desired, that’s okay because we’re offered a mostly hilarious series of Saturday Night Live-style television parodies.
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