It's hard to do the spoof right, is what The Duke has deduced from years of cultural analysis with emphasis on Spy Hard, Loaded Weapon, Airplane 2 and so on. Stuff that might work grand for 5 minutes on Saturday Nights Are Alive or whatever that programme is with Americans and the fella from Elf, can get very tiresome very quickly when drawn out to feature length, ie, 90 minutes, the length of a film.
Whilst it would be fucking insanity for someone to attack the artistic merits of Scary Movie 2, it would also be a different kind of insanity to yack about how every one of these films what has the funny characters and the jokes about The Matrix are all in that same league of impeccable wit.
Which brings us to this film by the name of Kentucky Fried Movie, what was made by the fellas who later went ahead and gave us Airplane and The Naked Gun and Police Squad and various other Leslie Neilson vehicles.
This Kentucky affair is no less hit-and-miss than, say, Naked Gun 33 1/3, but benefits somewhat from the sketch-based approach what it utilises, so if a character or a situation isn't especially mirth inducing, you only have to wait two minutes for the motherfuckers to be flung like snot-drenched hankies over the side of the screen. Unlike Naked Gun Part 33, when you had to put up with the woman from The Anna Nicole Smith Show for 83 motherfucking minutes.
KFM takes as its template a night of television based entertainment, so we get a news report, and then adverts for some stuff, and then a preview for Catholic School Girls In Trouble, along with some other unrelated tomfoolery.
Then it seems to skip the TV-based shenanigans and take as its inspiration a night at the films, granting us The Feature Presentation, a reasonably effective half-hour spoof of Enter The Dragon, by the name of A Fistful Of Yen.
Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different came out 6 years earlier, and I'm gonna hazard a speculation by way of assuming these fellas might have saw it. Maybe they saw it in a cinema, or maybe they saw it on TV, but I'm fairly certain these motherfuckers loved every second, whatever the outlet.
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Article comments
1 - Jim Carruthers
You might also want to pay attention to "Amazon Women On The Moon" which uses late night teevee as the framing device, and Sybil Danning instead of Uschi Digard for the boobs.
Plus a middle-aged man trapped in his teevee in his underwear.
2 - kirk
You definately have your own unique style of movie review! But I guess you take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street or sticking your face in a fan. But really, it's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
3 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Kirk, i am baffled by your comment. Maybe its cause its 5am, or maybe its cause you've hit upon some hitherto undetected plateau of commentary. Either way, im lost
:)
4 - Vic
I loved KFM when I first saw it many years ago and I have to say that I am amazed that there you found enough there to do such an in-depth review!
Props to you, dude. :-)
Vic
5 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Thanks Vic. Recieving Props from the screen ranter himself is something of an honour for The Duke is what.