This film is a collection of short films, where characters encounter various funny, dangerous or steamy situations.It's interesting to watch a comedy from forty years ago. The jokes are really funny, and a lot of them are very politically incorrect that films nowadays just cannot copy. The cinema scene got me laughing continuously. The zinc oxide scene is funny as well. The television news anchor scene is hilarious too. It's just really funny!

This funny sketch comedy movie is, like Airplane, which came from the same writers a few years later, a vehicle for a lot of insane jokes. As with other films from Abrahams and the Zuckers, not all the jokes land, but enough succeed to generate consistent laughs.My favorite piece is a take-off of a school informational video on zinc oxide. It's short but hilariously funny. The longest piece is a dead-on parody of martial arts movie. While it doesn't achieve the laughs-per-second of Airplane or Naked Gun, it is still an excellent example of the gag-fest approach to comedy that Zucker/Abrahams perfected later on.

Probably doesn't scale the heights of "Flying High", but it's on par in my opinion with "Naked Gun" insofar as the parody stylings of the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams go, and worthy of cult status. Essentially, it's a series of vignettes without any linkage, that spoofs (among others) "Enter the Dragon", "The Wizard of Oz", "Leave it to Beaver", any courtroom movie you care to mention, and the contemporary favourite, blue movie industry (e.g. "Behind the Green Door").Evan C.Kim is hilarious as the Bruce Lee imitation, playing out (almost scene for scene) the Master's exploits from "Enter the Dragon", even down to the detail of his encounters with Dr Han's (here, played by Master Bong Soo Han) guards ("Let's meet the guards!"). There's great mileage in a steamy "preview" of "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", starring fictitious "Linda Chambers" (no prizes for guessing the amalgam) daring one stud to show her his nuts (Steven Bishop no less!) with an hilarious response. Some audiences might also recognise the amply attributed Uschi Digart in a prolonged shower scene, while Donald Sutherland, Henry Gibson and Bill Bixby bring some A-list credibility to bear in speedy cameos.There's a couple of minor misfires, and it's certainly not suitable for kids but generally speaking, this is one of the most consistently hilarious films I've ever had the pleasure of watching - over and over again for the last twenty-something years. I never tire of seeing George Cheung (as Guard number two) announce his name - Long Wang - then explain how he would wake Dr Han if he was his alarm clock. If you don't find this film funny, no offence intended, but you may need to see somebody.

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.