Charles Herold (cherold) 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.

Robert J. Maxwell Pretty funny satire of vernacular culture in the 1970s. It takes a whack at just about everything -- the chop sockey movies popular at the time; TV commercials, which is a little like stretching an iridescent butterfly on the rack; public service announcements, soliciting contributions for "New Hope For The Dead" or something like that; Kennedy assassination buffs, a bit tasteless still; TV's "eyewitness news"; and even "The Wizard of Oz." Some of the jokes have grown less accessible with time. At one point an evildoer lays out a nefarious scheme then reaches for the overhead microphone and says clearly, "but it would be WRONG." You have to remember Nixon's Watergate tapes to get that one.It belongs to a parodic genre that includes Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lilly", to some extent, the first "Casino Royale", and another very similar feature that appeared about the same time and whose name eludes me and is driving me mad."Kentucky Fried Movie" is an outrage, an early test of the Zucker brothers who went on to write and direct more successful and equally outrageous movies like "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun." Continuity helps.

utgard14 Anthology comedy film directed by John Landis and written by the Abrahams-Zucker comedy team. It's a mixed bag that is hard to rate. Looked at in terms of time, the majority of the film is unfunny. Excruciatingly unfunny at times. Out of the first half-hour I laughed only at two sketches, "Catholic High School Girls" and "The Wonderful World of Sex." Neither of these were side-splittingly funny either. Then we have the worst (and longest) sketch in the movie, "A Fistful of Yen," which is a parody of Enter the Dragon. This sketch lasts over 30 minutes and I didn't laugh once! I was ready to write this mess off as a huge failure at this point. Then something surprising happens -- the rest of the movie is funny. Literally every sketch after "A Fistful of Yen" made me laugh. Unfortunately that amounts to about the last 20-30 minutes of the movie. I went back and forth between giving this a 5 or a 6 (there is no way it would get higher). Finally I decided on a 5 because when 3/4 of a movie sucks I can't give it more than a middle score, no matter how good the other 1/4 is. If you watch this and you find yourself checking the time in the first half, be patient -- it will get better. I would recommend you try Amazon Women on the Moon, a much funnier follow-up to this.

Chase_Witherspoon 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.