March 13th, 2004, 04:32 AM
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Going Old School!
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Movie-A-Day #142: Kentucky Fried Movie
Since it's Saturday I figured to select what to me is among the most hilarious movies of all-time... Thanks again to Amazon.com for the following...
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Twenty years before the Farrelly Brothers turned raunch into acceptable film comedy, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker exploited it first. The college threesome made it big with Airplane! in 1980, but this 1977 cinematic version of their live theater show is ground zero for their talents. Like The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie is a mishmash of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies with no central theme--except their crudeness and laugh-out-loud humor. Highlights include a commercial for "Scot Free," a board game based on the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, "The Wonderful World of Sex," in which a couple goes through foreplay with a self- help narrator instructing them step by step, and a 20-minute spoof of Bruce Lee films entitled "A Fistful of Yen." Brazen to a fault, the movie will reach for any punch line, no matter how crude (and those who flocked to the film's initial release looking for R-rated sex will remember the final sketch and the infamous trailer for "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.") Directed by then-unknown John Landis on a shoestring budget, the film has aged. But crassness, when it's this funny, is forever. --Doug Thomas
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Personal Note: Three-years-ago, a girl that lived once w/me and I went into a Hollywood Video, and I wanted to rent Kentucky Fried Movie.... I hadnt seen it for a few years before and the clerk at the counter cracked-up at my selection and told me how others thought it was an absurd movie....I beg to differ since Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker really showcased their comedic geniuses all throughout the entire movie....If there was a dull-moment, it would be during "A Fistful of Yen" since it dragged on at certain parts and lessen the impact of some of the previous sequences.... There's so many hysterical scenes and quotes in this film, that it is completely unreal....It's certainly a "cult-classic" in my book and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys satires and "slapstick" comedy.....A true "work of art"..... |
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March 13th, 2004, 08:07 AM
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"And the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!" Havenu Shalom Alechem!
Absolutley classic flick - one of my all time favorites - I could go on and on with lines from this movie - but without a doubt I think the funniest parts are CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN TROUBLE - "Show me your Nuts!" and BIG JIM SLADE! That and Donald Sutherland as the clumsy waiter in THAT'S ARMAGGEDON.
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March 16th, 2004, 11:05 AM
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Awesome flick!! This movie and Brain Donors rank as my #1 and #2 comedies of all time.
But hey I have a dry sense of humor  |
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March 16th, 2004, 07:38 PM
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on double secret probation
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"Send him to Detroit!"
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March 17th, 2004, 05:01 PM
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Going Old School!
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Originally posted by cheesebeef
"And the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!" Havenu Shalom Alechem!
Absolutley classic flick - one of my all time favorites - I could go on and on with lines from this movie - but without a doubt I think the funniest parts are CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN TROUBLE - "Show me your Nuts!" and BIG JIM SLADE! That and Donald Sutherland as the clumsy waiter in THAT'S ARMAGGEDON.
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Yeah, same here....They dont make satires/parodies like that any more......
My personal favorite scenes are "Willer", "Cleopatra Schwartz",
"Feel-a-vision" along with the ones you mentioned...... |
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