I love this movie so much

Touches You

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

This movie was made by the people who went on to write and direct Airplane!, Top Secret! and Police Squad! Apparently they think that adding an exclamation point makes a movie funny.Maybe that's what this movie was missing?I'm sure fans of this movie would say that it's never on TV because it's edgy or some bull like that.When the truth is that it's so lame and dated that most people would never get any of what passes for jokes in this movie.Just as you are getting into the sometimes funny short sketches, it goes into a forty minute Bruce Lee parody.Since I'm under sixty, I'm not familiar with Lee so it's hard to even see it as a parody.There are lots of stupid jokes that you will get even if you never heard of karate but they are exactly that, stupid.I'm sure Bruce Lee was all the rage in the sixties or thirties or whenever these people thought they were cool but anyone born after 1970 doesn't know anything about him.Even if I had seen this when it was new, the Lee parody was just way too long.I fell asleep during that scene half a dozen times.I see that this was directed by the same guy who directed Animal House.One more reason to never see that movie.The only good thing about this movie is seeing what would later become Leslie Nielsen's shtick being done by other people.This is a movie that does not need to be seen.

I was one year old when this was made...but watched it when I was maybe three or four. OK...not a good decision by my parents :) but this has always been my favorite, having a stagnant sense of humor of a 10 year old boy. Dino is gentle as a lamb... :). Definitely a pinnacle of juvenile humor. Lots of boobs and uh, midget clown whipping catholic school girls???Watching tonight, I find it strangely applicable to today with the liberal media accusations and search for "alternative fuel" :). Airplane was the more mainstream success for obvious reasons but Kentucky Fried Movie set the bar for tasteless silly movies.Must see...if you are juvenile like I am :)

The writers who would go on to create comedy classics Airplane! and The Naked Gun, and for good measure the guy who would go on to direct Animal House, combine to bring us a movie not even remotely as funny as any of those other movies I just mentioned. The Kentucky Fried Movie is a mess, a sketch comedy in which the laughs are few and far between. Watching this is an exercise in tedium, never more so than during the "feature presentation" dropped into the middle of the movie, a 30-minute martial arts parody which is an interminable bore. The best you can say for the majority of the other sketches is at least they're mercifully brief, some only a few seconds long and none more than five or six minutes in length. So at least if you don't like what you're seeing at a given moment, and way more often than not you won't, you know there will be something entirely different coming right up soon enough. But then inevitably that next sketch starts and it's lousy too and on and on and on we go. Somebody make it stop please.If you hold out any hope that the movie is ever going to gather any momentum at all the endless martial arts sequence kills that idea, bringing the movie to a dead stop. After that the movie crawls toward a merciful end. The last few sketches actually aren't half bad. There are some genuine laughs to be had there. But by that point you're so beaten down by all the miserable stuff you've been forced to sit through you can't fully appreciate it when you finally do see something funny. By the time you get to those last few sketches this movie has long since been doomed to failure. The writers threw a lot of garbage at the wall to see what would stick and very little did. About the best thing that can be said about this movie is that you're glad it exists because if it didn't there'd be no Airplane! But I'd watch Airplane! approximately 3,637 more times before I'd ever think of watching The Kentucky Fried Movie again.

Kentucky Fried Movie will always remind me of my youth for I was fortunate enough to have seen it when it came out at the tender age of 11. I somehow talked my Dad into believing this was just some silly comedy (this was very pre-internet and the paper just said it was funny) so he took my older sister (13) and I to a matinée. Little did my father realize how crude this was until it was too late, he and my sister were mortified but I realize now he was laughing his butt off and that was the reason we stayed.Teens today will not get most of the dated jokes in this classic comedy but they should still appreciate some of the great one liners and terrific dialog. "A fist full of yen" is a retarded masterpiece along with "CHSGIT" and the fantastic "Christ did a cow sh@t in here?" line. And who can ever forget BIG JIM SLADE! Yes it is very juvenile, very dated and some of the jokes fall flat but if you can't find something in here to die laughing about then you don't have a pulse. Now, take him to Detroit!