Freddy Got Fingered
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Actor: Tom GreenBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Freddy Got Fingered
Movie Review: Does Anybody Remember Laughter?
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't believe how people have no sense of humour these days! Here was a film that broke all the rules and no one is acknowledging it. I think the critics missed the point on this one...it was intended to be marvellously stupid. Nothing made me happier to find that Tom Green was still hitting the mark in my books. Basically a story of a lazy, good-for-nothing kid trying to make a living as a cartoonist while simultaneously trying to live up to his dad's expectations is about the only way to describe this flick. From there it just descends into an anarchic free for all whose only intention is too make you laugh at the absurdity of it's premise. Watch as Tom helps a woman give birth and commence to bite the umbilical cord and swing the baby by the same cord to bring it to life. See Tom bring a lady to climax by wacking on her paralyzed legs with bamboo. Observe as Tom scuba dives in his shower. Laugh as his younger neighbour always gets in the path of flying objects. Somehow, Mr. Green ties all this together into some barely cohesive story. I just laughed harder and harder as the film progressed. He continually tops himself with every scene. Rip Torn is awesome as his abusive, taunting, world-weary father. Rip was always awesome on 'The Larry Sanders Show', and this movies further cements his greatness in my mind. Anthony Michael Hall is nearly unrecognizable as a slick producer at some nameless cartoon company. It's nice to see him working again. I can't put into words how absurd and ridiculous this flick is. When Tom licks the bone jutting from his best friend's shin, I screamed in delight. When Tom freaks out on a fake cell phone in a restaurant, firing the fake person on the other line for costing him 'forty million deutschmarks' I giggled uproarously. When Tom tells his mom to leave his father and pursue sex encounters with basketball players and Greek men, I nearly died. When he fondles a stud horse, I did die and go to heaven. I've given away quite a bit, but believe me, when you see it, you will STILL laugh! I wish every Hollywood comedy was this good! I hate the generic crime film within a comedy scenario. This is what filmmaking is about. The critics just lambasted it, but that's only because they're jealous that someone gave Mr. Green the money to make a movie like this, while they just continue to write reviews nobody reads. It's unfortunate when they clamour for something new and inventive and then fail to recognize when it's right under their noses. Awesome, awesome movie.
Summary of Freddy Got Fingered
When 28-year old wannabe animator Gord Brody (Green) leaves the safety of his parents' home to make it big in Hollywood, all hell breaks loose... in hospital rooms, with paraplegic nymphos, in a cheese factory, with farm animals... and much more! Just wheMTV's maniacal prankster, Tom Green, takes his surreal nonsense to the movies in Freddy Got Fingered. Playing a Portland, Oregon, goofball who dreams of becoming an animator, Green barely stitches together a rudimentary plot, but he does pile on the kind of agonizing nonsense that is his stock-in-trade: chewing through an umbilical cord, licking somebody's compound fracture, and presenting a sausage-and-keyboard contraption that surely would have delighted early-20th-century Dadaists. Predictably, Green loses something in the transition from television's freeform, microscopic glare to the more formal demands of cinema, and the result isn't pretty. The trouble is, this stuff is largely unsuitable for the broad scope of a movie and, in contrast to the guerrilla tactics of Green's TV show, is prefabricated for the lumbering process of filmmaking. That, in turn, diminishes the effectiveness of Green's grenade-throwing humor and makes Freddy Got Fingered something of a desperate experience. --Tom Keogh
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