Weird Al Yankovic lets his imagination run wild in this mad, but mostly wholesome comedic vehicle. When his crazy ideas get in the way of pumping out the orders at the burger joint, his boss Big Edna kicks his ass to the curb. He finds a new employment opportunity via his crazy uncle who owns a UHF station that has no one to run it and is about to go under. Weird Al and his slacker buddy David Bowe start to turn the station around with some truly insane, oddball programming. Things really start happening for them when they give the janitor, Stanley Spadowski his own show. Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse, a kids show similar to Pee Wee's Playhouse is an instant hit with kids and adults alike and becomes Channel 62's flagship show. They become instantly successful and really tick off the owner of network Channel 8. The owner of Channel 8 is an evil corporate boss that treats people like doormats and will stoop to any level for ratings domination. Kevin McCarthy is great as the evil corporate tyrant opposite of lovable underdog Weird Al. In my opinion Michael Richards(best known as Kramer on hit sitcom Seinfeld) nearly steals the show as janitor superstar Stanley Spadowski. He is truly at his best here. There are a lot of TV and movie spoofs. Some of them work and are real funny and others are less funny and don't work so well. Weird Al was really cooking with this insane feature and UHF is real funny, off the wall and creative.
Review of UHF
