Weird Al Yankovic lets his imagination run wild in this mad, but mostly wholesome comedic vehicle. When his crazy ideas get in the way of pumping out the orders at the burger joint, his boss Big Edna kicks his ass to the curb. He finds a new employment opportunity via his crazy uncle who owns a UHF station that has no one to run it and is about to go under. Weird Al and his slacker buddy David Bowe start to turn the station around with some truly insane, oddball programming. Things really start happening for them when they give the janitor, Stanley Spadowski his own show. Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse, a kids show similar to Pee Wee's Playhouse is an instant hit with kids and adults alike and becomes Channel 62's flagship show. They become instantly successful and really tick off the owner of network Channel 8. The owner of Channel 8 is an evil corporate boss that treats people like doormats and will stoop to any level for ratings domination. Kevin McCarthy is great as the evil corporate tyrant opposite of lovable underdog Weird Al. In my opinion Michael Richards(best known as Kramer on hit sitcom Seinfeld) nearly steals the show as janitor superstar Stanley Spadowski. He is truly at his best here. There are a lot of TV and movie spoofs. Some of them work and are real funny and others are less funny and don't work so well. Weird Al was really cooking with this insane feature and UHF is real funny, off the wall and creative.

'Weird' Al Yankovic stars in this comedy based on his wild spoof songs and music videos that made him a cult favorite. He plays George Newman, a daydreaming(and chronically unemployed) man who nonetheless has a beautiful girlfriend(played by Victoria Jackson) who gets frequently upset by his ineptitude. One day, George is given the chance to manage a near-bankrupt UHF TV station that shows old reruns. He hits upon the idea of wild new programming with names like "Wheel Of Fish" and so on. He even enlists the aid of his janitor Stanley Spadowski(played by Michael Richards) to host a children's program, and is a smash hit! Trouble is, a rival affiliate manager(played by Kevin McCarthy) wants him off the air for good... Wildly uneven spoof comedy has brilliant gags like "Gandhi II"(a classic) or a very funny performance by Michael Richards. On the other hand, some stuff falls utterly flat indeed, and film isn't strong enough as a whole to make up for it.

UHFThe hardest part of running a TV station is finding shows offensive enough to incense viewers into tuning in every week to disparage them.Fortunately, the bulk of Channel 62's programming is odious enough to keep viewers shaking their fists at the screen for hours. After his friend (David Bowe) and him, are fired from yet another dead-end job, George (Weird Al Yankovic) finally gets a break when his uncle (Stanley Brock) hires him to run a dilapidated television station that he won in a card game.Given carte blanche with the channel, George makes some immediate changes, including promoting the secretary (Fran Drescher) to reporter, and the janitor (Michael Richards) to children's show host.Weird Al's surreal parody of the visual medium, UHF bends comedy in preposterous ways, with beneficial results.However, it's unnerving to be watching television shows without having advertisements creeping across the bottom of the screen. (Green Light) vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

I recently bought and watched the DVD of UHF, which I had not seen since its initial release, and my partner and I had such a fun time watching the stoopid antics of "Weird Al" and gang. As if that wasn't enough, we switched over to the version dubbed into German and watched the whole thing again. Neither of us speak German, nor did we need to. Jay Levey's direction is so well-executed that even without the dialogue, its clear what is happening. I played the film in German at the video store I work at it got a huge response. Pretty much EVERYONE wanted to borrow a copy. YOU MUST TRY THIS! IT'S HILARIOUS! The German actors who lend their voices seem to really understand the comic style of the film because their intonation and emphasis is side-splittingly spot on and even funnier than the original English! Yankovic is no actor and it shows, but hearing his voice dubbed by a professional actor really lifts the material. The DVD also contains versions dubbed into French, Italian and Spanish - which are fun, though not as funny - but this perhaps gives audiences a better indication of the broad appeal of this film. Buy it. Watch it. Laugh out loud!