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Prodcut Description: [More Information ...] Twenty years before the Farrelly Brothers turned raunch into acceptable film comedy, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker exploited it first. The college threesome made it big with Airplane! in 1980, but this 1977 cinematic version of their live theater show is ground zero for their talents. Like The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie is a mishmash of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies with no central theme--except their crudeness and laugh-out-loud humor. Highlights include a commercial for "Scot Free," a board game based on the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, "The Wonderful World of Sex," in which a couple goes through foreplay with a self- help narrator instructing them step by step, and a 20-minute spoof of Bruce Lee films entitled "A Fistful of Yen." Brazen to a fault, the movie will reach for any punch line, no matter how crude (and those who flocked to the film's initial release looking for R-rated sex will remember the final sketch and the infamous trailer for "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.") Directed by then-unknown John Landis on a shoestring budget, the film has aged. But crassness, when it's this funny, is forever. --Doug Thomas
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Reviews:
Still funny First time I saw this movie I nearly wet my pants laughing, and I still am laughing. Brilliant This movie is thirty to forty years ahead of its time. If you watch it and "set it" you'll know what I mean. Great movie if you'd rather go partying, but cannot If you've seen and enjoyed the much more popular "Airplane" movies that made fun of the "Airport" series, this is the movie that got that brand of slapstick parody movie going. It is not sophisticated humor of any sort. It is not even a movie with a storyline really, so much as it is a series of several skits. Anyone who doesn't like puns must turn away now. This movie is full of them. While it is not a dirty movie per se, it is rated "R" and clearly not something you want your 9-year-old to see. There is some nudity that makes fun of pornography.
An important consideration is the age of the movie: If this were 1977, I'd give it the full five stars. Much of the satire is based on the TV commercials, politics, styles and social trends of the day. Anyone young enough to not remember them would have some trouble getting the full impact of the jokes. As a result, I gave it only four stars because of their irrelevance to today. If nothing else, watch it with someone who is 50 or so who can explain the background of some of the skits. Classic,original, and funny There wasn't many spoof movies made when this one came out, that's what makes this an original classic. Even when I was young and watched this, my brother and I both laughed. 25 yrs. later , I am still laughing, every time I watch it.
If your around 25 yrs. old or younger you probably won't enjoy it, this movie spoofs others from 70's and early 80's era.
But if you're mature adult and enjoy comedy of that era, you should get this. It started it all. Love this movie. Its skits influenced so many movies and TV shows that came after it. |
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