I was one year old when this was made...but watched it when I was maybe three or four. OK...not a good decision by my parents :) but this has always been my favorite, having a stagnant sense of humor of a 10 year old boy. Dino is gentle as a lamb... :). Definitely a pinnacle of juvenile humor. Lots of boobs and uh, midget clown whipping catholic school girls???Watching tonight, I find it strangely applicable to today with the liberal media accusations and search for "alternative fuel" :). Airplane was the more mainstream success for obvious reasons but Kentucky Fried Movie set the bar for tasteless silly movies.Must see...if you are juvenile like I am :)

Pretty funny satire of vernacular culture in the 1970s. It takes a whack at just about everything -- the chop sockey movies popular at the time; TV commercials, which is a little like stretching an iridescent butterfly on the rack; public service announcements, soliciting contributions for "New Hope For The Dead" or something like that; Kennedy assassination buffs, a bit tasteless still; TV's "eyewitness news"; and even "The Wizard of Oz." Some of the jokes have grown less accessible with time. At one point an evildoer lays out a nefarious scheme then reaches for the overhead microphone and says clearly, "but it would be WRONG." You have to remember Nixon's Watergate tapes to get that one.It belongs to a parodic genre that includes Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lilly", to some extent, the first "Casino Royale", and another very similar feature that appeared about the same time and whose name eludes me and is driving me mad."Kentucky Fried Movie" is an outrage, an early test of the Zucker brothers who went on to write and direct more successful and equally outrageous movies like "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun." Continuity helps.

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.

When KFM first came out I laughed until I thought I would have an accident. Every target was skewered neatly, and all the humour worked. Being an impressionable lad, I was very pleased with the nudity - not a huge amount, but a good deal franker than I had been used to. And, having seen Enter The Dragon not long before, I was nearly delirious with laughter at A Fistful Of Yen.Time has not been kind to KFM. Many of the targets are no longer targets. Tastes and humour have moved on. Only the boobs and the kung fu spoof have remained timeless.But I think it is necessary to pay homage to this movie for the trail it blazed. Though undoubtedly owing a debt to those who went before, it broke new ground, and did so with style and no fear. Even if it is no longer quite so funny as it was at the time, it is still a movie to be enjoyed and revered (a little bit).