Kentucky Fried Movie (DVD)

For those who love 'Airplane' and 'The Naked Gun', then here's where it started, 'The Kentucky Fried Movie'. Episodic and sketch orientated it's a film brimming with hundreds of ideas. Everything from fake movie trailers, adverts and interviews - the film sends up the stuffiness of cinema in the 70's. Take 'That's Armageddon', a send-up of the disaster flicks that populated 70's cinema. Rather than spend an hour and half spoofing those sorts of films with 'Disaster Movie', the Zuckers say everything they need to say in three minutes. 'If you were thrilled by "The Towering Inferno"... if you were terrified by "Earthquake"... then you will ...  Read the complete review

THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE There’s little doubt that Airplane! is probably the funniest film ever made. Whilst The Big Lebowski has come close to topping this distinction with it’s more zany and articulated brand of humour, the 600-odd gags in Airplane’s short running time, including the best visual gag ever in Ted Striker’s drinking problem, will likely never be bettered. Likewise, television’s Police Squad, despite running for only six episodes and pre-cursor to the Frank Drebin Naked Gun trilogy, is perhaps the funniest thing ever created for television – if only for the mock freeze frames at the end of each episode. And for all this we have to thank three ...  Read the complete review

We got this recently from screen select DVD rental company. This is an old film (made in 1977) and could be described as a cross between Monty python, the day today and aeroplane (which i have heard was created by the same person). The humour is pointlessly funny and the sketches are unrelated and do not generally flow into each other and are of different styles. I understand that a lot of the sketches are spoofs of other films, but as it's an old film this element was pretty much lost on me. There is also some scenes of a sexual nature so it's probably best to wait until younger children are out of the room/house before watching this. To give you a ...  Read the complete review