- Actors: Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson
- Directors: John Landis
- Writers: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- Producers: Kim Jorgensen, Larry Kostroff, Robert K. Weiss
- Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
- Release Date: Sep 7 2004
- Run Time: 83 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6305840083
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#3,289 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #2 in DVD > Comedy > Cult Classics
- #2 in DVD > Comedy > Comedy Directors > John Landis
- #5 in DVD > Comedy > Comedy Directors > Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker
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Product Description
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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
Additional Features
This DVD features a surprising amount of information for such a little film. More than 18 minutes of home movies shot on-set and more than 100 black-and-white pictures are included in addition to the audio commentary. Director Landis, Abrahams, the Zucker brothers, and producer Robert Weiss ruminate over the picture, admitting they haven't seen it in 20 years; a lot of the talk is asking who the various actors are and if they were still alive. More informative is the history of the Kentucky Fried Theater, how the fivesome raised money for the film, Landis's remarks on why the film would now be rated NC-17, the revelation that David Letterman auditioned, and how they lucked out in finding the lead for "A Fistful of Yen." The DVD chapter stops make it easy to find a favorite segment. Did we mention "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble"? --Doug Thomas
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Great Movie - but I had problems with the DVD too.,
By "oceantno" (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kentucky Fried Movie (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
One of my favorite movies of all time. I bought the DVD a few years ago and it played fine, but all of a sudden it couldn't be read by any of my DVD players. It almost looks tarnished. ...I'm giving this 3 stars: 5 for the movie but 1 for the quality of the DVD.
4.0 out of 5 stars
1st Movie for the guys who made Airplane,
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This review is from: Kentucky Fried Movie (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
Great Movie the movie the Zucker, Zucker and Abraham's guys made before Airplane. Full of sight gags and one liners. A must for true Airplane comedy lovers. A true cult classic.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Samuel L Bronkowittz presents a very funny film,
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This review is from: Kentucky Fried Movie (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
I remember seeing this film the first time when I was 15. My friends and I had an inside joke with some of the more outrages sketches such as 'Catholic High School Girls in Trouble', 'Fist full of Yen', and "Zinc Oxide' (fake science filmstrip).Having seen the DVD, I must say that the print is good though the original film stock had poor detail. There is a choice of 16:9 or fullscreen, though this choice is awkwardly implemented in the menu. If you wish to see an early example of tasteless sketch comedy, you may enjoy this film. Some of the fake movie previews, directed by the ubiquitous Samuel L. Bronkowitz are still very funny. Other parts of Kentucky Fried Movie may not have aged well from the 1970s, however.
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