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How the *beep* do people like this?


Everywhere I look, people say OMG! So funny, best film ever lol.

This has to be one of the most unfunniest pieces of sh!t ever made. I only chuckled a few times but that was it. Very lame, dated humour. I also can't believe this came from John Landis who directed Animal House and An American Wolf in London.

In summary, why do people like this?

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Every movie isn't for everybody but I think KFM is great! Why, I don't know except that I think it's funny as *&%$.

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I agree this movie is one of the WORST 'comedies' I've ever seen, I was counting and I got about 4 half laughs out of the whole thing, the kung fu main feature felt like it was done by someone who'd just seen Enter The Dragon, and didn't think it was very good as they seem to do a spoof of it with no jokes, at least nothing funny, the timing is terrible, the whole thing is flat and no amount of boobs is going to make up for that.

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I really like this movie but am a bit surprised at how many others like it too. It definitely requires a unique sense of humor as it is odd and the humor can easily be the kind that others don't like and/or find boring.

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Not really, it doesn't take any kind of unique sense of humour. I understood why the jokes were supposed to be funny but they just weren't. We watched this at a semi-public movie night showing and there were one or two awkward snickers (that seemed to be out of politeness towards the event) but other than that, silence. The jokes try waaay too hard to be funny. It's like someone tried to copy Monty Python's Flying Circus and failed miserably.

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This is a great comedy. Skits are great. The writers made some of the best comedies ever. Not so much anymore, "Superhero Movie" for example.


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It's easy. It's funny and makes me laugh a lot. A lot of it IS dated, like Cleopatra Schwartz was a takeoff on Cleopatra Jones. Disaster movies were the rage, Enter the Dragon was a hot movie. If you appreciate the stuff that was happening around the time it was made, it would probably be funnier to you. I'm sitting here laughing while I'm thinking up gags that were in KFM.

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It hasn't held up at all. I couldn't force myself to laugh, and I'm a fan of Airplane, Animal House, and The Naked Gun. Just terrible.

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I heard about this comedy movie and bought it at Rasputin's, here in San Francisco, and I was hoping for another classic, just like The Blues Brothers, and, wow....it's horrendous. I wasted 10 dollars on this. I really don't recommend it.

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Well I wouldn't call this movie a classic either, but it's still good.


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I don't consider this a straight up "comedy" movie now. It's more in line with the spoof or parody movies like Epic Movie or Meet The Spartans. I guess it was a few years ahead of it's time.

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"I don't consider this a straight up "comedy" movie now. It's more in line with the spoof or parody movies like Epic Movie or Meet The Spartans."

First of all, spoofs and parodies are comedies. Second, to compare this to 'Epic Movie' or 'Meet The Spartens' is a crime against cinema, comedy and comedy-cinema. Do again and you will be sent to Detroit!



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