Stars: Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, John Landis

Director: John Landis

Summary: An outrageous, irreverent satire on movies, commercials and TV talk shows.

A movie that helped plant the seeds of Saturday Night Live and gave the Zucker brothers a foot in Hollywood's door, this long-revered television and movie satire combines sex and bathroom humour with timeless sight gags and slapstick. The uproarious film spoofs everything from television commercials, movie trailers, porn, and pop culture in general in a series of hysterical sketches. Infamous sketches include "Cleopatra Schwartz," a blaxploitation spoof featuring a sexy Amazon married to a rabbi; and the extended kung fu film parody "A Fistful of Yen." Raunchy humor and hysterical commentary on the media are served up with reckless abandon by the likes of Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, George Lazenby, and Donald Sutherland, among countless others.

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Twenty years before the Farrelly Brothers turned raunch into acceptable film comedy, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker exploited it first. The college threesome made it big with Airplanein 1980, but this 1977 cinematic version of their live theatre show was the ground zero for their talents. Kentucky Fried Movieis a mish-mash of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies with no central theme--except their crudeness and laugh-out-loud humour. Highlights include a commercial for "Scot Free", a board game based on the Kennedy assassination conspiracy; "The Wonderful World of Sex", in which a couple goes through foreplay with a self-help narrator instructing them step-by-step; and a 20-minute spoof of Bruce Lee films entitled "A Fistful of Yen". Brazen to a fault, the movie will reach for any punchline, no matter how crude (and those who flocked to the film's initial release looking for R-rated sex will remember the final sketch and the infamous trailer for "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble".) Directed by then-unknown John Landis (who went on to make The Blues Brothersand An American Werewolf in London) on a shoestring budget, the film has aged. But crassness, when this funny, is forever. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Chapter Selection, Trailer, Biographies And Filmographies, Photo Gallery, On Set Home Video From Jerry Zucker, Detailed Programme Notes
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Year:	1977
Release Date:	March 22, 2004
Runtime:	84 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	F C D 089
Keywords:	Comedy, Movie, General, Wide, Screen, Kentucky, Fried
Genre:	Comedy