Michael Chantiri
A film that is equal parts satirical, meta, stupid, fantastic, terrible, smart, funny, mind numbing and disturbing. 'Freddie Got Fingered' is a film that a lot of people hate for good reason but for me I personally can't relate. The film doesn't care if your disturbed, it just keeps assaulting you with goofy situation after situation and I can't help but laugh over the absurdity of it all. It obvious that Tom Green intentionally wanted to make a film that made fun of the conventions of gross out comedy and I think he succeeded.Tom put anything he desired on screen and it's equal parts mesmerizing and disturbing. The fact that they let him put all these uncomfortable things on screen just elevates the film to the most unique comedy I have seen in the gross out genre. There are various tropes here that I've seen in other comedy films that are made fun of. Everything is so extreme that Tom creates his own style of humor that wouldn't of been possible with more studio interference. While the film does excel at shocking there are a lot of genuinely good scenes throughout the film. While Gordy is unlikable he is very engaging for me and Tom Green really portrayed him well. The twisted take on the 'underdog' character was really refreshing to see, Rip Torn gives a memorable performance throughout, the scenes with Tom Green and Anthony Michael Hall are hilarious and show great chemistry, Gordy's relationship with Betty while extremely bizarre kind of had an earnest and sweet nature which I found heart warming. I could go on but that would be missing the point a little bit. Sure the film is doesn't meet the typical standards of a good movie but for what it's worth there is a craft for creating something so different, extreme and polarizing especially when you compare it to other comedies that were coming out around this time.Somehow understood and misunderstood 'Freddy Got Fingered' is a film that I will continue to unlock it's secrets as the years go by.
Mister Gorys
Roger Ebert's review of this movie says it all. "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as barrels."This is a horrifically bad movie and if you watch it you'll regret it and never be able to get that two hours of your life back again. Tom Green has been funny to me before but he is so unfunny in this I had to just shake my head through the entire movie. The writing is tragically unfunny with no recognizable jokes or moments that will make you laugh or even smile. It's just an hour and a half joke Tom Green played on the audience, "look what I made you watch," that luckily had the beneficial side effect of completely killing his career so at least we never have to watch another one of these crimes against humanity.
morbidmercenary
Tom Green's Masterpiece i saw him live @ The Carolinas on Broadway because of this treasure.... A comic genesis
jeditrainerjb
I had to throw the DVD case of these movie against a dumpster just to feel normal again. There's no consistency with the character, other than them being consistently annoying. I felt like Tom Green actively hated the idea of people enjoying movies, and that's why he made this.
AD
