Kentucky Fried Movie
It’s hard to underestimate the importance of Kentucky Fried Movie in my own pop culture consciousness. I love this movie. I first saw it the night I graduated from high school, and that was just perfect timing - here was a flick which was as twisted and crude and as filled with non-sequitur jokes as I was. KFM also marks the first movie to chronicle the collaboration between Jim Abrams and David and Jerry Zucker. All of them have gone on to greater things - including the TV cop show spoof Police Squad and its Naked Gun spinoffs on the big screen - but their bizarre take on everything from TV commercials to the martial arts movie craze is quite evident here.
One thing to keep in mind is that the only way I had ever seen this movie before the days of DVD was on a very poorly mastered pan & scan VHS tape. Seeing it remastered (as much as was possible, given the state of the original film print, that is) and in widescreen (though not that wide) was a revelation.
Included as extras on the disc are home movies shot on the set (really for completists and Zuckerholics only - I didn’t even find them all that engrossing), and a hysterical all-hands-on-deck audio commentary with the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker troika, producer Bob Weiss and director John Landis, recounting the story behind the various sketches committed to film, who among the cast were old friends (or family) of the Zuckers, and wild tales of the various locations and how the movie was shot. The commentary makes this disc. At one point where things are dragging just a little bit, one of the filmmakers says, “So can we talk about any movie other than this one?”
“Sure,” replies one of the others, probably thinking that an anecdote about Airplane! 
or The Naked Gun is waiting in the wings.
“Well, I saw Galaxy Quest the other night, and it was really funny!”
Granted, Kentucky Fried Movie’s brand of crude frat-boy sketch comedy isn’t for everyone, but if you’ve enjoyed any of the ZAZ team’s other works, why not see for yourself where it all started? If you’ve seen the movie, or want an education in Zucker-esque comedy, this DVD is highly recommended.