The hottest, most out-of-control movie ever to stagger onto the screen!
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
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Comic, ironic, cool and unpretentious.
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- Toxic Fletchon TMDB · May 20176/10
Not unlike Monty Python's Flying Circus or The Benny Hill Show, The Kentucky Fried Movie, no actual relation to Kentucky or chicken, is an uneven collection of comedy skits, but being this is not for television it is sleazed up for one's viewing pleasure. Parodying much of 70s TV shows and movies, there are skits like the naughty Catholic High School Girls in Trouble promo reel, a blaxploitation parody, and the gem of the movie which is a kung-fu parody which takes up a good bit of the movie's running time. Like any comedy skit anthology the skits are uneven. Some are winners, some are flops. In retrospect they are perhaps more interesting in looking back on the 70s in a parody format. But the kung-fu parody is truly on target in what it parodies and the centerpiece of the movie. Alone I would give the kung-fu parody an 8/10 rating. Unfortunately some of the other skits drag down the whole of the movie, but it is worth it just to see the kung-fu bit. I give it 6/10 **Toxic Fletch**
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Cast
- Evan C. KimLoo (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
- Bong Soo HanDr. Klahn (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
- Agneta EckemyrMing Chow (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
- Marilyn JoiCleopatra Schwartz (segment "Cleopatra Schwartz")
- Marcy GoldmanHousewife (segment "Household Odors")
- Bill BixbyHimself (segment "Headache Clinic")
- John LandisTV Technician Thrown by Gorilla (segment "A.M. Today")
- Donald SutherlandThe Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
- Victoria CarrollThe Nurse (segment "That's Armageddon")
- George LazenbyThe Architect (segment "That's Armageddon")
Crew
- John LandisDirector
- Jim AbrahamsWriter
- Jerry ZuckerWriter
- David ZuckerWriter
- Stephen M. KatzDirector of Photography
- Robert E. CollinsDirector of Photography
- Igo KantorOriginal Music Composer
- George Folsey Jr.Editor
- Robert K. WeissProducer
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