I was too young to see the R-rated "KFM" in a theater when it first came out. I was still too young when I saw it a few years later (as what must've undoubtedly been the second half of a double feature) but I thought that it was absolutely HILARIOUS.
By the time I was in high school, "KFM" had achieved cult status. My friends and I would regularly quote catch-phrases such as...
"What was that?! This is not a sha-wade. We need total concen-twation...Now, once a-gain."
"We're building a fighting force of extra-ordinary magnitude."
(with French accent) "I don't know, it's unknown, I don't know..."
Watching "KFM" decades later, it's STILL funny! There are parodies of; news shows, talk shows, morning shows, courtroom shows, adventure shows, self-help recordings, action movies, porno films, industrial films, educational films, exploitation films, disaster films, PSAs, and commercials.
Of course, the highlight of the whole movie is the long Bruce Lee film parody, "A Fistful of Yen." I hadn't seen "Enter the Dragon" back when I first watched "KFM" but it didn't matter, I still found "AFOY" hysterical. That segment, on its its own, rates a 10. "That's Armageddon," the disaster-film promo spoof, is also priceless.
People under a certain age won't get some of the references to things like Wesson or Nyquil P. M. commercials of the time. I appreciate the courtroom sketch more as an adult since some things, like the reference to the game show "What's My Line?," went over my head when I was a kid.
Note: This is NOT a film you'll want to watch with your relatives. The amount of nudity and sexual situations (in 3 of the skits) could make for an uncomfortable family-viewing night.
Millennial snowflakes and dour, PC scolds should be herded into theaters en masse, strapped into the seats, have their eyes held open with those "Clockwork Orange" eye-thingies, and be forced to watch a double feature of "KFM" and "Blazing Saddles." They'd gasp, they'd laugh, their dull humorlessness would melt away and the whole world would be a much happier place!
By the time I was in high school, "KFM" had achieved cult status. My friends and I would regularly quote catch-phrases such as...
"What was that?! This is not a sha-wade. We need total concen-twation...Now, once a-gain."
"We're building a fighting force of extra-ordinary magnitude."
(with French accent) "I don't know, it's unknown, I don't know..."
Watching "KFM" decades later, it's STILL funny! There are parodies of; news shows, talk shows, morning shows, courtroom shows, adventure shows, self-help recordings, action movies, porno films, industrial films, educational films, exploitation films, disaster films, PSAs, and commercials.
Of course, the highlight of the whole movie is the long Bruce Lee film parody, "A Fistful of Yen." I hadn't seen "Enter the Dragon" back when I first watched "KFM" but it didn't matter, I still found "AFOY" hysterical. That segment, on its its own, rates a 10. "That's Armageddon," the disaster-film promo spoof, is also priceless.
People under a certain age won't get some of the references to things like Wesson or Nyquil P. M. commercials of the time. I appreciate the courtroom sketch more as an adult since some things, like the reference to the game show "What's My Line?," went over my head when I was a kid.
Note: This is NOT a film you'll want to watch with your relatives. The amount of nudity and sexual situations (in 3 of the skits) could make for an uncomfortable family-viewing night.
Millennial snowflakes and dour, PC scolds should be herded into theaters en masse, strapped into the seats, have their eyes held open with those "Clockwork Orange" eye-thingies, and be forced to watch a double feature of "KFM" and "Blazing Saddles." They'd gasp, they'd laugh, their dull humorlessness would melt away and the whole world would be a much happier place!
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