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Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Daydreamer George Newman (Weird Al Yankovic) can't hold down a job and gets his best friend Bob (David Bowe) fired as well. Their friend Kuni (Gedde Watanabe) runs a karate school. His uncle Harvey Bilchik wins a rundown UHF TV station Channel 62 in a poker game. His aunt convinces Harvey to make him the manager. He and his girlfriend Teri (Victoria Jackson) go to the station and find the weird engineer Philo (Anthony Geary). Receptionist Pamela Finklestein (Fran Drescher) wants to be a reporter. He goes to meet R.J. Fletcher (Kevin McCarthy), rival owner of Channel 8. Evil Fletcher throws him out. As he leaves, he hires weird janitor Stanley Spadowski (Michael Richards) who was just fired by Fletcher for Fletcher's own mistake. George decides to put on original programming instead of the endless reruns of old shows.This is an excuse for Weird Al to make spoofs of movies and TV shows which he jams into the script. It also allows Michael Richards to go nuts in one of the many crazy TV shows. The comedy is generally at a pretty silly level. The stupidity gets a few laughs but it's mostly hit-and-miss. It's reminiscent of SCTV.

UHF is very light-hearted and it isn't complex at all. Visual gags come fast, and it's impossible to catch them all! I thought UHF was cute and not bad at all. Filled with charm, innocence and satire -- a nice mix. From an artistic standpoint, there were some plot elements and character developments I didn't think were totally needed. They do however drive the story, which seemed to be their purpose, so I can accept them. The effects are very good for 1989. Yankovic is also a musician who pokes fun at other musicians by rearranging the lyrics to their songs, I am told by friends and family who insist he's a funny guy.

Weird Al is funny. He's also smart and generally respectful to audiences of all ages. Yet he succeeds in light cynicism aimed at those things that annoy us-like commercials, cheesy TV shows and exaggerated scenes in movies. Back in those days, we still had two band selections on the TV and VHF was where all the good programming was. UHF had a lot of channels but only a few were used and people did not switch to UHF often unless they wanted to watch a community channel, church service, foreign language show or some other oddity. You need to understand this before you watch the movie so ask someone older if you are young. Given that, it is a pretty funny idea for a movie and the mock commercials and TV shows are a laugh. True to name, Al finds lots of weird people to play parts in the movie and work with him-some with a touch of late 80's nerdity about them as well. It had a few stretches-like I cannot see a whole bar captivated by a low IQ person lecturing the value of character over a mop. But heck, just like a bum who asks you for change and then gives you back an equal amount of dollars to the coins you gave him, UHF will return your money's worth.

This Is By Far The Dumbest Movie I've Ever Seen, 2012, Transformers And Armageddon Don't Stand A Chance Anymore, Why Did I Give This 8? Because What The Hell Would You Expect BESIDES The Dumbest Movie Ever Made.Channel 62 Is The Lowest Rated TV Station In Town, Harvey Newman Decides To Hire His Over Imaginative Nephew As The Manager, A Man So Desperate He'll Put Anything On The Air.To Name A Certain Point That Was Considered The Dumbest Part I Could Never Be Able To Fully Justify That Answer, The Add For Ghandi II, Stanley Playing Games With His Kidnappers When They Want To Put A Bullet In His Head, Jason Vorhees On Channel 62's Version Of Jerry Springer, SERIOUSLY I Would Love More Comedies To Be Made Like This, Weird Al Is A Comedic Genius In Both Movie And Music Entertainment.Overall This Is Right Up There With "Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back", "Monty Python's Life Of Brian" & "Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle"(To Name A Few) As Being The Most Idiotic Movie I've Ever Seen.