A RECIPE FOR SEDUCTION (2020) – This 15-minute short was put together by KFC and Lifetime Television in what deserves to be recognized for the intentional comedy that it is! Yes, it would be even funnier if it wasn’t trying to be, but too many reviewers apparently miss the point.
I love Bad Movies as much as anybody, so I settled in to finally watch A Recipe for Seduction ready to laugh at it based on reviews implying its ludicrous premise was being played straight. Instead, I wound up laughing at how perfectly this short film/ comedy advertisement parodies Lifetime Television’s steamy romance flicks.
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MARIO LOPEZ plays a hunkified COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS of KFC fame. One look at the way he’s made up should have alerted grumpy critics to the fact that this thing is not to be taken seriously! Hell, his makeup is just a few adjustments away from making him a hunkified Orville Redenbacher, but we’ll never get to see THAT parody because of how badly misunderstood A Recipe for Seduction was.
This A.C. Slaterific Colonel Sanders/ Sid Dithers is a master chef at a ritzy restaurant but at heart he wants to use his secret recipe for fried chicken to capture the world’s taste buds and stomachs despite the scorn his ambitions receive from the snobbish rich pigs he works among. Continue reading
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