Prismark10 This is an early work from the comedy writing trio of Zucker Abraham and Zucker who would go on to make the Airplane and Naked Gun films and the second feature length film by directed by John Landis.The film is like an adult version of Saturday Night Live mixed with Monty Python consisting of sketches, parodies of movies, news shows and ads.The centrepiece is the parody of Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon called A Fistful of Yen. you do need total concentration as it goes on for too long. I think I would liked a longer version of Cleopatra Schwartz to go with it.I first watched a scratchy pirate copy of this movie when I was a teenager and of course then the highlight was 'Catholic High School Girls in Trouble' the parody of 1970s porn films and who can forget Uschi Digart's large breasts pounding the shower screen. The 'show me your nuts' line is still sublime.There are some inspired sketches such as the film in feel-o-vision, Henry Gibson deadpan ad for being death being the number one killer in America and the Ape going berserk skit features make up effects legend and multiple Oscar winner Rick Baker.Bill Bixby, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Donald Sutherland are some of the famous star cameos.It is a little bit hit and miss and I guess it inspired the short lived US adult orientated sketch show Bizarre.

JoeB131 When I was in college, I thought this movie was hilarious.Now that I'm older, I realize that most of the laughs are cheap and most of the humor sophomoric.The strongest part of the film is "A fistful of Yen" bit, where they send up "Enter the Dragon" with an actor who is playing Bruce Lee's part with an awful lisp. It's the kind of parody you find funny because it mocks the movie lovingly, something the producers would later do to much greater effect with the Airplane movies.There a few other funny skits, but the laughs are cheap. The only thing you can say to it is when they got a cheap laugh, they moved on to something else, unlike their later endeavors where they milked a cheap laugh for the whole movie.

hall895 The writers who would go on to create comedy classics Airplane! and The Naked Gun, and for good measure the guy who would go on to direct Animal House, combine to bring us a movie not even remotely as funny as any of those other movies I just mentioned. The Kentucky Fried Movie is a mess, a sketch comedy in which the laughs are few and far between. Watching this is an exercise in tedium, never more so than during the "feature presentation" dropped into the middle of the movie, a 30-minute martial arts parody which is an interminable bore. The best you can say for the majority of the other sketches is at least they're mercifully brief, some only a few seconds long and none more than five or six minutes in length. So at least if you don't like what you're seeing at a given moment, and way more often than not you won't, you know there will be something entirely different coming right up soon enough. But then inevitably that next sketch starts and it's lousy too and on and on and on we go. Somebody make it stop please.If you hold out any hope that the movie is ever going to gather any momentum at all the endless martial arts sequence kills that idea, bringing the movie to a dead stop. After that the movie crawls toward a merciful end. The last few sketches actually aren't half bad. There are some genuine laughs to be had there. But by that point you're so beaten down by all the miserable stuff you've been forced to sit through you can't fully appreciate it when you finally do see something funny. By the time you get to those last few sketches this movie has long since been doomed to failure. The writers threw a lot of garbage at the wall to see what would stick and very little did. About the best thing that can be said about this movie is that you're glad it exists because if it didn't there'd be no Airplane! But I'd watch Airplane! approximately 3,637 more times before I'd ever think of watching The Kentucky Fried Movie again.

Cinema_Fan First impressions, in general, may count as the most important, but, as a movie, this first from the team that brought us the magnificent and refined narrative lead Airplane! three years later has most certainly given us the impression of more in the sense of what was to come rather than what had arrived.Yes, this concept may not have been an all together new idea, comedy, parody sketches were so far in the past tense with the likes of televisions Monty Python's Flying Circus and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In that this The Kentucky Fried Movie may have been a brave venture to project such short works' onto the Big Screen.With great vision and determination to fill a niche, it contains parody commercials, news broadcasting, breakfast T. V., television appeals and of course there is the sex. It's all so pre-PC, so care-free in its stance that it even, after all these years, has its laugh-out-loud moments and, also, its cringe worthy moments too, it hasn't aged all that well in presentation but the upbeat and, in today's perspective, daring gags still works well. We can, now in hindsight, see the fruitiness of this up and coming team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, unfortunately, at the time, no one else could or would.It may be best to see this first venture sooner than its latter contenders, for it may take the shine off this work, you see, it had virtually no budget, even at an average $600,000 - $1,000,000 this was such a minuscule amount. Taking into account the despairing production and excessive amateurish feel, it was a highly successful Independent movie that grossed some several million dollars in return. It seemed that this was to be a fruitful venture after all, as with the televisions' sketches; this too, had big names dropping in, names such as George (James Bond) Lazenby, Bill (The Incredible Hulk) Bixby, Henry Gibson and Donald Sutherland to add a little weight to the proceedings. It also has the sense and style of Monty Pythons great parody sketch film of 1971 And Now for Something Completely Different. On account, The Kentucky Fried Movie may have been seen much too late in the running order of things, been around the block, established itself as a cult status and given a healthy return, but, on first impressions it is dated, it is basic and it is crude to say the least. On reflection it is also fun, it is, or was, also that little bit daring and it is a respectable and honourable piece of work, that a bunch of people had believability in and took the chance, and won. Very impressionable.