Kentucky Fried Movie
(1977)
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A movie that helped plant the seeds of Saturday Night Live and gave the Zucker brothers a foot in Hollywood's door, this long-revered television and movie satire combines sex and bathroom humour with timeless sight gags and slapstick. The uproarious film spoofs everything from television commercials, movie trailers, porn, and pop culture in general in a series of hysterical sketches. Infamous sketches include 'Cleopatra Schwartz', a blaxploitation spoof featuring a sexy Amazon married to a rabbi; and the extended kung fu film parody 'A Fistful of Yen'. Raunchy humour and hysterical commentary on the media are served up with reckless abandon by the likes of Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, George Lazenby, and Donald Sutherland, among countless others. |
Director John Landis and scriptwriters Jerry Zucker, David Zucker and Jim Abrahams provide a consistently wacky collection of spoofs in a more hit-than-miss parody of TV commercials, B-movies, kung fu adventures and porno chic. A lot more vulgar than their later movies, which included Airplane! and Naked Gun, it's a bright and breezy anthology of the sketches the trio had already presented on stage. A cheap, cheerful and chucklesome time-waster, that includes the star quality of Donald Sutherland and George Lazenby.