Review – UHF

Fans of Weird Al Yankovic’s quirky comedic style will get a real kick out of this feature-length parade of the stuff. There’s at least the pretense of plot here someplace, something about a hapless failure who takes over a UHF station and uses his oddball tastes and oddball friends to defeat the meanie who owns the town’s big network affiliate. But really the best parts are the show parodies and insane shtick from Yankovic and from Michael Richards as a mentally differently abled janitor who ends up heading the station’s most successful show. If you can magically transport yourself back to the days when you had a pre-adolescent sense of humor, a lot of the gags here will have you rolling in the aisles. Mildly amusing