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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Anamorphic • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 10 August, 1977 DVD Release : 20 June, 2000 |
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Kentucky Fried Movie description 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | "I'm not wearing any pants.....film at 11." |
| In 1977, the Zucker brothers and Director John Landis had no budget, no big stars, no script, no studio, and no experience. They essentially grabbed a camera, a legion of world class martial artists (including the late Bong Soo-han and the brothers Rhee, who would go on to star in the classic BEST OF THE BEST series) and staged every gross-out, profane, sexually perverse, utterly juvenile gag that anyone spending a weekend on weed could think of (which I have never done, so that last one was really an assumption.)
Right there, I pretty much laid out the whole storyline for you. This is really sort of an androgynous croos between Saturday Night Live, Mad TV, America's Funniest Home Video's, and Jackass, and has no real plot to it. And, after 30 years, it runs circles around any of the dribble that passes for comedy today (I'm looking at you, NORBIT.) It's full of such classic bits as the Feel-Around Theater, Catholic High School Girls in Trouble (essentially a late 70's version of Girls Gone Wild, The Wonderful World of Sex, a boatload of satirical newsclips, The Courtroom, Zinc-Oxide and You, and of course, the immortal Bruce Lee parody, A Fistful of Yen. Why we haven't yet seen a whol string of sequels produced is beyond me, and why you haven't seen yet is beyond me too, so go watch it now. Go on. |
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