The Kentucky Fried Movie (A.M. Today) (1977)

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"The popcorn you are eating has been pissed in. Film at eleven."

Years before the ZAZ trio (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker) hit the big time with their comedic hit Airplane! in 1980, the boys were complete unknowns in Hollywood, endeavouring to find someone to finance their zany sketch comedy movie. Eventually their tireless efforts paid off, and the result of their labour... read more

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick so, maybe, I should give it a 2nd chance. On the other hand, since I really didn’t like it at all the first around, I don’t think I’m going to waste even more time with this flick. Indeed, it seems that this movie has quite a solid reputation but, personally, I thought it was actually seriously lame. I don’t know, I guess I'm ... read more

The Kentucky Fried Movie has no unified plot; it consists of numerous sketches that parody 1970s TV commercials, drive-in movies and educational films shown in schools. The skits spoof kung-fu movies (particularly Enter the Dragon, as displayed in the film's "feature presentation"/longest segment), courtroom TV shows, women-in-prison movies and pornography (or more specifically, advertising for pornography).