Plustown
A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
Lidia Draper
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
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.
Charles Herold (cherold)
This funny sketch comedy movie is, like Airplane, which came from the same writers a few years later, a vehicle for a lot of insane jokes. As with other films from Abrahams and the Zuckers, not all the jokes land, but enough succeed to generate consistent laughs.My favorite piece is a take-off of a school informational video on zinc oxide. It's short but hilariously funny. The longest piece is a dead-on parody of martial arts movie. While it doesn't achieve the laughs-per-second of Airplane or Naked Gun, it is still an excellent example of the gag-fest approach to comedy that Zucker/Abrahams perfected later on.
utgard14
Anthology comedy film directed by John Landis and written by the Abrahams-Zucker comedy team. It's a mixed bag that is hard to rate. Looked at in terms of time, the majority of the film is unfunny. Excruciatingly unfunny at times. Out of the first half-hour I laughed only at two sketches, "Catholic High School Girls" and "The Wonderful World of Sex." Neither of these were side-splittingly funny either. Then we have the worst (and longest) sketch in the movie, "A Fistful of Yen," which is a parody of Enter the Dragon. This sketch lasts over 30 minutes and I didn't laugh once! I was ready to write this mess off as a huge failure at this point. Then something surprising happens -- the rest of the movie is funny. Literally every sketch after "A Fistful of Yen" made me laugh. Unfortunately that amounts to about the last 20-30 minutes of the movie. I went back and forth between giving this a 5 or a 6 (there is no way it would get higher). Finally I decided on a 5 because when 3/4 of a movie sucks I can't give it more than a middle score, no matter how good the other 1/4 is. If you watch this and you find yourself checking the time in the first half, be patient -- it will get better. I would recommend you try Amazon Women on the Moon, a much funnier follow-up to this.
headly66
Kentucky Fried Movie will always remind me of my youth for I was fortunate enough to have seen it when it came out at the tender age of 11. I somehow talked my Dad into believing this was just some silly comedy (this was very pre-internet and the paper just said it was funny) so he took my older sister (13) and I to a matinée. Little did my father realize how crude this was until it was too late, he and my sister were mortified but I realize now he was laughing his butt off and that was the reason we stayed.Teens today will not get most of the dated jokes in this classic comedy but they should still appreciate some of the great one liners and terrific dialog. "A fist full of yen" is a retarded masterpiece along with "CHSGIT" and the fantastic "Christ did a cow sh@t in here?" line. And who can ever forget BIG JIM SLADE! Yes it is very juvenile, very dated and some of the jokes fall flat but if you can't find something in here to die laughing about then you don't have a pulse. Now, take him to Detroit!
