Review of The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) by Alex B — 01 Feb 2011

Directed by John Landis, and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker. This is a fast and furious spoof of films, television, educational films and adverts. Like what we would later expect from their writers, if one joke doesn't work, not to worry, there'll be another one along in a minute that will work, but it is very funny indeed.

It's essentially a sketch film, featuring parody's of breakfast television, daredevil shows (Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker) and courtroom shows. There's also spoofs of TV commericals, including one for a board game called Scot Free, one about how crude oil can be extracted from teenagers faces.

But, best of all, are the movie spoof trailers for cheap exploitation films like Catholic High School Girls In Trouble, (which should have it's own spin-off!! :D) Blaxploitation action with Jews in Cleopatra Schwartz, and a big disaster film starring George Lazenby and Donald Sutherland in That's Armageddon! :D Oh, and educational films including Zinc Oxide and You, The Joy of Sex and one from Henry Gibson on Death.

:P It's very surreal, but alot of it is laugh out loud, but very rude as well, the ZAZ team nearly made Kentucky Fried Movie 2, but it was recycled to make Airplane! (1980), Landis' career took off after this, and the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!! :D 4/5.