UHF

UHF is a 1989 American comedy film starring famous singer and song writer "Weird Al" Yankovic. The film was directed by Yankovic's manager Jay Levey, who also wrote the screenplay alongside Yankovic. The film was released by Orion Pictures in July 21, 1989.

Plot
George Newman ("Weird Al" Yankovic) is a shiftless dreamer who becomes the boss of a nearly bankrupt UHF TV station called Channel 62 that his uncle Harvey won in a poker game. His ideas with the programming choices for the channel, particularly making a janitor named Stanley Spadowski (Michael Richards) a children's TV show host, manage to bring high success to the TV station that causes it to clash with its rival VHF TV station called Channel 8, whose CEO R.J. Fletcher (Kevin McCarthy) seeks to eliminate the competition through buying the deed to Channel 62 from George's uncle Harvey who's in debt of $75,000 to his bookie, forcing George to come up with $75,000 to save Channel 62 from being bought out by Fletcher.

Why It's Got It All (On UHF)

 * 1) The movie's intention was to bring "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody and comedy to film, which is in itself an amazing idea since a lot of people would like to see his work be made into a movie.
 * 2) The cast of the movie is very funny and likable, particularly "Weird Al" Yankovic as George Newman for his hilariously wacky imagination and funny dialogue moments.
 * 3) Plenty of great songs featured in the movie that are parody songs created by "Weird Al" to be solely included for this movie such as "Beverly Hillbillies" which is a parody of "Money for Nothing", and "Isle Thing" which is a parody of "Wild Thing." The movie also has its own theme at the end.
 * 4) Tons of great nods to famous movies such as the beginning of the movie does a parody to Indiana Jones.
 * 5) A lot of really funny moments and ideas such as George Newman and his best friend Bob Steckler living in a martial arts dojo, and George being given the time by a martial arts student punching his fist through a wall and showing George his watch.
 * 6) The film has a lot of memorable moments such as the Wheel of Fish scene, and creative elements such as the Twinkie Wiener Sandwich that "Weird Al" still eats to this day that YouTubers have also tried and founding to be quite good.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It did very poorly at the box office due to it being released when a lot more popular movies were being released at the time.

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