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Lynxan1

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Proving that Weird Al can be funny in more then just music, this movie is simple as can be, but the draw isn't in the story, but the skits that are all about it. From Wheel of Fish to Conan the Librarian this movie is a laugh a minute.

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Posted jun 29, 2007 11:19 am pt

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Weird Al has outdone himself this time. It is not a very popular movie, but it deserves to be. I have seen the movie like...8 times and it never gets old. The commercial and TV show ideas were laugh out loud funny. I also liked how he managed to...
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Weird Al has outdone himself this time. It is not a very popular movie, but it deserves to be. I have seen the movie like...8 times and it never gets old. The commercial and TV show ideas were laugh out loud funny. I also liked how he managed to parody things and put them in a movie. The other actors and actresses do a good job in thier role as well. This is a movie to see if you want a good laugh.

however...the plot is okay, and when you see it a second time it isnt as good, and the special effects were cheesey (well then again it was filmed in 87-88...)

Overall I highly reccomend this title to any Weird Al fan, and anyone who likes to laugh

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Posted jun 7, 2007 2:51 am pt

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Weird Al has been a favorite of mine for years. I love this movie, it is very funny. His comercial ideas are awesome!!! I wish we had TV shows like the ones in this film, they are so funny.

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Posted feb 8, 2007 6:20 am pt

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Funnyman Weird Al Yankovic dominates the airways in the humorous 1989 cult comedy "UHF". George Newman (Yankovic) is a hapless daydreamer who becomes the new manager of a run-down UHF television station. Facing the possibility of...
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Funnyman Weird Al Yankovic dominates the airways in the humorous 1989 cult comedy "UHF". George Newman (Yankovic) is a hapless daydreamer who becomes the new manager of a run-down UHF television station. Facing the possibility of bankruptcy, George changes the station's programming with an outrageous lineup of shows like "Wheel of Fish" and "Raul's Wild Kingdom" and turns the second-rate Channel 62 into the most successful TV station in town. "UHF" is an enjoyable comedy that shows off Weird Al Yankovic's brand of humor. Though it failed in theaters, this silly comedy gained a solid fan following upon television airings and home video release. "UHF" has some amusing characters and hilarious parodies of blockbuster movies, music videos, commercials and game shows. It also stars Michael Richards (Seinfeld), Victoria Jackson (SNL), Fran Drescher (The Nanny) and Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers).

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Posted jan 25, 2007 4:23 am pt

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This movie is awesome! Weird Al is a comic genious! I watched this movie during Christmas time and I thought it was funny even for a movie that was made in the late 80's. It also has appearances from people like Michael Richards and Emo Philips,...
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This movie is awesome! Weird Al is a comic genious! I watched this movie during Christmas time and I thought it was funny even for a movie that was made in the late 80's. It also has appearances from people like Michael Richards and Emo Philips, and it's a must-see for any fan of Weird Al.

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Posted jan 23, 2007 4:18 am pt

• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
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  The laughs just keep rolling as 'Weird Al' makes a movie. Overheard from a still-convulsing woman after a recent screening of Weird Al Yankovic's UHF: "I'm sorry, but that's funny." I'm sorry, but she's right. Yuks you feel obliged to apologize for are yuks nonetheless. And UHF prompts a lot of apologies.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  The movie is forever digressing so that Mr. Yankovic can offer media spoofs that have only the most tangential relation to the story. [22 Jul 1989, p.1.15]

  by Stephen Holden | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  Yankovic fails to come up with anything new to freshen the stock storyline, and is content instead to let it serve as a creaky showcase for his forte, media parodies. But even the quality of these parodies is inconsistent, with the movie and music takeoffs being obvious and out of date.

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• [+] Washington Post
  
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  Yankovic, an advocate of the Monty Python and Mel Brooks schools of comedy, favors yechy burlesque, and UHF, with its scant plot, is basically a variety show with skits, sight gags and gross stuff. "Weird" reminds us there's nothing quite like a good booger joke for pure entertainment.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  UHF is not a uniformly funny experience, unless you have to wear a bib and tend to laugh at anything, such as sudden gusts of wind. Yankovic, co-writing with manager Jay Levey (who also directed), goes for gag after gag. Some hit, some miss. You laugh, you cry.

  by Desson Howe | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
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  Gamely running through parodies of TV commercials and shows, not to mention Spielberg, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Selznick, and Gandhi, the movie proves to be awful by any standards--feeble, corny, and labored in script as well as direction--although the Capracorn of the basic premise occasionally manages to convey a certain sweetness.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
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  UHF, a parody of trash television, is almost defiantly silly, but when it's funny it is very funny. This sloppy, good-natured satire certainly doesn't threaten "Network's" status as the classic decimation of the television business. [27 Jul 1989, p.1]

  by Julie Salamon | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  The result is a very unfunny movie. It's routine, predictable, and dumb - real dumb.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
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  The problem with UHF is that everything in it is a parody. The only logic for anything that happens is that there's some new thing to make fun of-mostly inanely. It's not much of a movie. [21 Jul 1989 p.11]

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
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  In UHF we get 90 minutes of Al Yankovic, and that's 85 minutes too much. The problem isn't that he's weird, but that he isn't weird at all. The premises for his gags are commonplace and predictable, and his follow-throughs lack imagination. He seems incapable of spinning more than one tired joke from each set-up. [21 Jul 1989, p.E1]

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
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  Viewing UHF may be injurious to your sense of humor. Rarely has a comedy tried so hard and failed so often to be funny. [21 Jul 1989, p.A]

  by Gene Siskel | Read Full Review »