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Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow ... see more see more... , Forrest J Ackerman , Michael Alaimo , Newell Alexander , Richard James Baker , Susan Breslau , Victoria Carroll , David Clover , Barry Dennen , Uschi Digard , Tony Gaznick , Marcy Goldman , Ed Griffith , Master Bong Soo Han , Eloise Hardt , Marilyn Joi , Nathan Jung , Saul Kahan , Michael Kearns , Janice Kent , Evan C. Kim , Michael Laurence , Michael McManus , Derek Murcott , Lenka Novak , Manny Perry , Ellen Regan , Sheila Rogers , Felix Silla , Tara Strohmeier , Stephen Stucker , Gwen Van Dam , Charlotte Zucker , Jim Abrahams , Stephen Bishop , Jerry Zucker , David Zucker , Agneta Eckemyr , Eric Micklewood , William Tregoe , Dulcie Jordan , Gracia Lee , Mark Levine , Colin Male , Jeff Maxwell , Dick Yarmy , Rick Gates , Joe Medalis , John-Anthony Bailey , Anna Crawford , Neil Thompson , Jack Roberts , Richard Barrett

Comedy writers David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams of Airplane and The Naked Gun fame got their start at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they formed a theatrical group known as The Ke... read more read more...ntucky Fried Theater. The Kentucky Fried Movie is based on the KFT's gag-filled theatrical skits. Including well-known stars such as Bill Bixby, Donald Sutherland, Tony Dow, George Lazenby and Henry Gibson, the film has over 22 different segments of varying lengths. Some are seconds long. Longer segments include such highlights as: "Zinc Oxide," which spoofs school educational films; "Cleopatra Schwartz," a spoof of female blaxploitation action films, whose heroine is married to a rabbi; "Sex Record," which depicts a couple who are attempting to follow the step-by-step instructions of a how-to-do-it record; "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble," and "A Fistful of Yen," (the longest episode), which is an elaborate spoof of martial-arts films. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: John Landis

Release Date: August 10, 1977

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DVD Release Date: July 4, 2000

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  • ScoopOnline
    August 28, 2011
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    InTheBasket
    Just when I thought it safe to go on watching, there I go again laughing Hysterically.


    SHAMLESS FUNNY. zuckNuckLe My MAN! One the Number 1 on my ZuckNuckle Top Ten Movies. I dont really care what people say but this Movie is just too friggin too fu... read morenny to miss.
    For a low Budget and for a Seventy Spoof it was Hilarious.
    warning not for kids!
  • CloudStrife84
    July 19, 2011
    CloudStrife84
    Crude, nude and not for the prude! As one of the first satire films ever to have been made, this marks the historic birth of a subgenre, that with time has come to generate a whole ocean's worth of offsprings. Very raunchy and experimental by form, yet for the better part quite f... read moreunny. Some of the jokes are really top-of-the-line, even if the editing and visuals look awfully dated and low-budget. For when they do hit their target, they do so to side-splitting results. One thing that entertained me in particular was the spoof on Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. Having recently seen said martial arts flick, just made it all the more hilarious. So if you're into this special flair of comedy, I can definitely recommend you to give it a go. That is, if you're not too easily offended by its raw and unapologetic humor. Because if there's one thing this movie doesn't do, it's holding back its punches.
  • ajv2688
    January 5, 2011
    ajv2688
    One of my favourite spoof movies of the 70s, it's hilarious and spoofs both TV and film. The main part of the movie has a spoof of Enter the Dragon, which is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. There are a bunch of cameos to look for as well, so I highly recommend this m... read moreovie to fans of the 70s.
  • FrizzDrop
    October 27, 2010
    FrizzDrop
    A bit underdeveloped, but essentially that's why people love it. A precursor to the big funnies of Naked Gun and Airplane, Kentucky is odd, funny, and overall a 70's mishmash of cultural references too old for most to get, and nudity galore. Interesting overall.
  • FilmFanatik
    January 12, 2010
    FilmFanatik
    A wonderful spoof film that hasn't aged very well visually, but still holds up comedically.
  • SirPant
    September 21, 2009
    SirPant
    It has its moments but it?s not very good and it hasn?t aged well either!
  • Deano78
    August 26, 2007
    Deano78
    A mix of short sketches spoofing, film and TV shows. The highlight a great spoof of Enter the Dragon. Made by the same people behind Airplane, Hot shots and Naked gun films. Loud, rude and crude but has plenty of laughs along the way.
  • shortcartoonist
    January 12, 2007
    shortcartoonist
    One of the far better spoof films ever made, Kentucky Fried Movie is a bar that all comedy 'spoof' movies should be measured against. This is a film that derives ingredients of not only creating satirical humour of other films, but also infuses satire of life and society in gener... read moreal. One of the true highlights of this film's greatness is that it strays from typical slapstick, school humour present in such atrocities as the recent Scary Movie films, as it holds a far greater social relevance and irony that is sorely missed these days. This is the kind of comedy that David Zucker should be sticking to. And, with one final note, the Enter the Dragon scene is without a doubt one of the funniest scenes in a film of the 1970's, it's brilliant. "Send him to Detroi!"
  • mjgildea
    November 13, 2006
    mjgildea
    The Bruce Lee stuff went on too long but this movie was damn funny.
  • wbgoose13
    September 11, 2007
    wbgoose13
    Exceedingly slapdash early effort by the ZAZ clan.

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Critic Reviews

Dave Kehr
April 1, 2008
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

It's easy to spoof cliches; it's something else again to string them together with the insight into narrative structure these boys evidence. Full Review

Lawrence Van Gelder
May 9, 2005
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times

The range of its satire and comedy, as displayed in 22 segments running from a minute or two up to 30 minutes, is fairly narrow. Full Review

February 13, 2001
Variety

The Kentucky Fried Movie boasts excellent production values and some genuine wit, though a few of the sketches are tasteless. Full Review

MaryAnn Johanson
March 15, 2011
MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

Saturday Night Live had been doing the same thing, only better, on TV for two years prior to this... and Monty Python had been doing something far more subversive and positively genius with their Flyi... Full Review

John A. Nesbit
January 22, 2011
John A. Nesbit, Old School Reviews

a hit and miss affair Full Review

April 1, 2008
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Vulgar and uproariously funny. Full Review

Ian Nathan
April 1, 2008
Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine

Smart and satirical but very dated, obviously. Full Review

April 1, 2008
Film4

Some episodes are coarse and sadly unfunny. Full Review

February 9, 2006
Time Out

Great fun for an undemanding night out. Full Review

Alex Sandell
July 15, 2004
Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum

As many hits as misses, but the hits are zingers!

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