Well, here we are in the final days of "70's Month" and today's film is from 1977. Before they made the comedy classics Airplane! and The Naked Gun movies, filmmakers Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers made The Kentucky Fried Movie.
Directed by John Landis, who would go on to direct Animal House the next year, the film doesn't really have a central plot or narrative through-line but instead is a stitched together series of sketches similar to the 1971 Monty Python film And Now for Something Completely Different. The longest of these sketches is A Fistful of Yen, which is an Enter the Dragon parody with quite a few solid jokes. While not every one of the gags and punchlines in the film have aged as well as others, I think it's still a pretty funny movie overall and worth watching.
3.5 out of 5
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