UHF (1989)
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
UHF (1989)
Information
Released Year: 1989
Runtime: 97 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Directors: Jay Levey
Casts: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Emo Philips, Kevin McCarthy, David Bowe, Fran Drescher, Billy Barty, Trinidad Silva, Michael Richards, Anthony Geary, Victoria Jackson, M.G. Kelly
IMDB: UHF (1989)
Storyline
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
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Reviews
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) -
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.
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The New York Times -
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]
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TV Guide Magazine -
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 But even the quality of these parodies is inconsistent, with the movie and music takeoffs being obvious and out of date.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 -
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.
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Chicago Reader -
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.
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