This "movie" presets a series of shorts which parody famous movies and real life situations in a hilarious way. TV commercials, news bulletins, horoscope, Kung-Fu movies with their typical sounds and even "The Wizard of Oz"... nothing escapes their mockery. Although funny by themselves, they sometimes tend to become exaggerated and thus resulting in a state of boredom from which only some more laughter can come to the rescue. It is funny, as a whole, but when you don't rely on anything else (a story or some kind of connection between them), it becomes hard to make a proper movie, let alone a very good one. It's good for raising up your mood, or for a good time with some friends but nothing more.

"The Kentucky Fried Movie" specializes in the tasteless. This isn't inherently a bad thing and, given the right material, can be genuinely funny. But this is not the right material.The movie is hit-or-miss on a good day, but the misses far outweigh the hits. Most of the jokes never land, and they usually wear out their welcome (Fistful of Yen just draaags, man). There were a few highlights - "Catholic School Girls in Trouble", "Big Jim Slade", "That's Armageddon", the film at eleven bumpers - but this is one of those movies I can say I've finally seen and move on. I'll stick with "Amazon Women on the Moon".5/10

Anthology comedy film directed by John Landis and written by the Abrahams-Zucker comedy team. It's a mixed bag that is hard to rate. Looked at in terms of time, the majority of the film is unfunny. Excruciatingly unfunny at times. Out of the first half-hour I laughed only at two sketches, "Catholic High School Girls" and "The Wonderful World of Sex." Neither of these were side-splittingly funny either. Then we have the worst (and longest) sketch in the movie, "A Fistful of Yen," which is a parody of Enter the Dragon. This sketch lasts over 30 minutes and I didn't laugh once! I was ready to write this mess off as a huge failure at this point. Then something surprising happens -- the rest of the movie is funny. Literally every sketch after "A Fistful of Yen" made me laugh. Unfortunately that amounts to about the last 20-30 minutes of the movie. I went back and forth between giving this a 5 or a 6 (there is no way it would get higher). Finally I decided on a 5 because when 3/4 of a movie sucks I can't give it more than a middle score, no matter how good the other 1/4 is. If you watch this and you find yourself checking the time in the first half, be patient -- it will get better. I would recommend you try Amazon Women on the Moon, a much funnier follow-up to this.

Hysterical break into movie making for the talented Jim Abrahams and David & Jerry Zucker team that would go on to great fame with the classic "Airplane!" within the next few years. This movie functions as a hysterical spoof of any kind of programming one might see in the theaters or on TV at the time. And, as has been said, this is definitely a product of its era. Younger viewers may not get a good deal of the jokes. But, overall, "The Kentucky Fried Movie" is wild stuff with the Z.A.Z. team throwing all caution to the wind and coming up with some wonderfully raunchy and outrageous stuff. There's no real through line, merely a succession of parodies. The centerpiece is a lengthy "Enter the Dragon" mockery titled "A Fistful of Yen" which has hero Loo (Evan C. Kim) hired to infiltrate the criminal empire of a man named Dr. Klahn, played by Master Bong Soo Han. Some of the Z.A.Z. team's jokes may tend towards the crude and immature, but it's such a hoot that they just throw so much stuff at us (much like "Airplane!" three years later). The pacing slows a bit during "A Fistful of Yen" but otherwise things move along quite well. TV commercials for such things as oil, zinc oxide, board games, and beer dot the busy landscape, along with spoofs of black & white courtroom shows, disaster movies, and jabs at news programming. The mock sexploitation trailer "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" and blaxploitation trailer "Cleopatra Schwartz" provide some of the brightest moments, and provide PLENTY of eye candy guaranteed to make many viewers happy. The "feel-a-round" segment is particularly funny, using director John Landis's recurring "See You Next Wednesday" in-joke (and featuring a poster of his debut movie, "Schlock"). Special guest appearances are made by such famous faces as Tony Dow from 'Leave It to Beaver', one time James Bond player George Lazenby, the great Donald Sutherland, and TV veterans Bill Bixby and Henry Gibson. Fans of 70's trash cinema will also note the presence of Marilyn Joi (as Ms. Schwartz), Tara Strohmeier, Lenka Novak, and well endowed Uschi Digard. Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker themselves appear throughout, makeup effects legend Rick Baker is the gorilla, Landis the TV technician thrown by the gorilla, and future "Airplane!" cast members Stephen Stucker and Leslie Nielsen (uncredited) are utilized as well. This is genuinely great, unrestrained material that makes a number of comedies in the years since look bland in comparison. Highly recommended to fans of sketch comedy. Eight out of 10.