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It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Pretty funny satire of vernacular culture in the 1970s. It takes a whack at just about everything -- the chop sockey movies popular at the time; TV commercials, which is a little like stretching an iridescent butterfly on the rack; public service announcements, soliciting contributions for "New Hope For The Dead" or something like that; Kennedy assassination buffs, a bit tasteless still; TV's "eyewitness news"; and even "The Wizard of Oz." Some of the jokes have grown less accessible with time. At one point an evildoer lays out a nefarious scheme then reaches for the overhead microphone and says clearly, "but it would be WRONG." You have to remember Nixon's Watergate tapes to get that one.It belongs to a parodic genre that includes Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lilly", to some extent, the first "Casino Royale", and another very similar feature that appeared about the same time and whose name eludes me and is driving me mad."Kentucky Fried Movie" is an outrage, an early test of the Zucker brothers who went on to write and direct more successful and equally outrageous movies like "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun." Continuity helps.

Before Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams' success with Airplane! (1980), Top Secret (1983), The Naked Gun (1988), and John Landis' short series of good comedies National Lampoons Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and Trading Places (1983), they collaborated on this "sketch" movie. Consisting of oh-so- very contemporary 1970's cultural tropes, the films mixture of spoof exploitation movie trailers ("You will cream in your jeans when you see..." Catholic High School Girls In Trouble; That's Armageddon; Cleopatra Schwartz), humorous commercials (which includes one quite disturbing, United Appeal for the Dead, that has a family keeping their son after death, showing him involved in everyday family activities), public service announcements and many references to Deep Throat (1972).The stand out "Main Feature" is a parody of the 1973 breakthrough martial arts film, Enter the Dragon. As was exacerbated in the writers' next effort, the aforementioned Airplane!, the visual gags are sometimes quite brilliant. I first came across this film when I was quite young. I'm not really sure how this would be viewed today. As I mentioned, this is very much a part of the 1970's. But if you love the blaxploitation, sexploitation et al trailers and movies, then there is certainly some fun to be had with these. There's a splattering of double entendre, and a more exponentially greater visual helping of T&A. It is a good comedy sketch film, with the usual quality problems with the format (i.e. not all the parts will be as good as others). And for those who suffer from premature ejaculation, this film comes with... Big Jim Slade.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

I was born in 76, and never heard of this movie till i recently had nothing to watch and stumbled on a "50 greatest comedies of all time" blog. Really? This movie is one of the 50 greatest comedies of all time?Who's judging these movies Beavis and Butthead? I barely got through the "fist full of yen" skid and had to turn it off.Not once did I or the other people watching it made a chuckle.It's not funny today, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't funny 34 years ago. Maybe people were just a little more ignorant and didn't have a clue what funny really was. If you are lucky enough to not have watched it till today, save yourself the anguish.

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.