Editing Dynamite Chicken (section)

==Reception==
''Dynamite Chicken'' was originally screened only on college campuses, serviced by specialty company EYR (Educational Youth Recreation), who had also handled initial screenings of [[L. M. Kit Carson]]'s documentary ''[[The American Dreamer]]''. "It was initially booked in 35 schools," Pintoff told ''San Francisco Examiner'' film critic [[Stanley Eichelbaum]], "And the response was so good, we thought we should try a theatrical run."<ref name="newspapers/120124059">{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120124059/dynamitechickensfexaminerreview012171/ | title=DynamiteChickenSFExaminerreview012171 | newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner | date=21 January 1971 | page=27  | via= [[newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[Walter Reade#The Walter Reade Organization|The Walter Reade Organization]] acquired the film and began releasing it in cinemas in January 1971.

The ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' called the film "a blue version of ''"[[Laugh-In]]"'' that bombards us with a collage of political protest, hip sloganeering and sophomoric nonsense...It strikes me as insincere, inadequate, and superficial in its entire approach to the comedy of dissent."<ref name="newspapers/120124059"/> Kevin Thomas of the [[Los Angeles Times]] was more positive, saying "Pintoff, always in control of his wide-ranging material, remains an oasis of sanity in the eyes of the storm...Pintoff is fresh and disciplined in the choice of images he bombards us with."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120126820/dynamitechickenkevinthomaslatimesreview0/ | title=DynamiteChickenKevinThomasLATimesreview070171 | newspaper=The Los Angeles Times | date=July 1971 | page=88 }}</ref>