The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
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Cast
as Cleopatra
as Schwartz
as Housewife
as Paul Burmaster
as Claude
as Boy
as Girl
as Jurist
as Newscaster
as Architect
as Usher
as Himself
as The Firechief
as Himself
as Dino
as Clumsy
as Bald Beer Drinker
as Loo
as Charming Guy
as Jurist
as Pennington
as Dr. Klahn
as The Nurse
as Wally
as Husband
as Mother
as Dino
as Various Roles
as Various Roles
as Woman in Shower
as Various Roles
as Ming Chow
as Boy
as CIA Agent
as Host (Danger Seekers)
as Sheila Hamilton
as Guest #1
as Bulkus
as Man in Shower
as Barbara Duncan
as Frank Bowman
as Guest #2
as Boy Going Blind
as Argon Spokesman
as Man (Feel-A-Round)
as Hornung
as Asquith
as Linda Chambers
as Big Jim Slade
as Judy Morton
as The Governor
as Guest #3
as Crazed Clown
as Stenographer
as John Fitzsimmons
as Mrs. Burke
as Taylor
as Jurist
Critic Reviews for The Kentucky Fried Movie
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It's easy to spoof cliches; it's something else again to string them together with the insight into narrative structure these boys evidence.
Great fun for an undemanding night out.
The range of its satire and comedy, as displayed in 22 segments running from a minute or two up to 30 minutes, is fairly narrow.
The Kentucky Fried Movie boasts excellent production values and some genuine wit, though a few of the sketches are tasteless.
Still packs in the laughs at a non-stop rate...
Most of the jokes still hold up excellently even today and with spoof commercials and trailers so popular these days, especially today, The Kentucky Fried Movie proves to be both hilarious and curiously prescient.
Audience Reviews for The Kentucky Fried Movie
Written by the ZAZ Team (Airplane! The Naked Gun, etc) and directed by John Landis (National Lampoon's Animal House, The Blues Brothers, etc), this is one of, if not the earliest spoof film. There's not really much of a plot, as this is more of an anthology of mostly unconnected sketches that parody various television programs, commercials, and different films, namely of the exploitation and educational varieties. There's also a hilarious jab at cinematic gimmicks, where a man goes to a movie being shown in "feel around"...which results in him being physically accosted by an usher. The film is very politically incorrect, rude, stupid, silly, and goofy, but I mostly had a good time with it. A lot of it is pretty smart with the satire, and really dead on, but then there's a fair amount that just left me feeling kinda "meh", despite a sly grin on my face. I think the biggest issue here is that the film, though clever and well done, is quite dated, and some of the jokes are no longer as effective thanks to the passage of time, with audiences growing more accustomed to raunch. All in all though, it is enjoyable, but not nearly as groundbreaking as later stuff like Airplane! That being said, I must give special praise to the level of detail and care that went into the Kung fu parody, as well as the fact that the film features a midget dressed in a clown suit whipping half naked Catholic schoolgirls chained up in a dungeon. If this sounds like your thing, then give it a shot.
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Crude, nude and not for the prude! As one of the first satire films ever to have been made, this marks the historic birth of a subgenre, that with time has come to generate a whole ocean's worth of offsprings. Very raunchy and experimental by form, yet for the better part quite funny. Some of the jokes are really top-of-the-line, even if the editing and visuals look awfully dated and low-budget. For when they do hit their target, they do so to side-splitting results. One thing that entertained me in particular was the spoof on Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. Having recently seen said martial arts flick, just made it all the more hilarious. So if you're into this special flair of comedy, I can definitely recommend you to give it a go. That is, if you're not too easily offended by its raw and unapologetic humor. Because if there's one thing this movie doesn't do, it's holding back its punches.
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