Freddy Got Fingered
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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.Movie Review: you'll love it or you'll hate it
Summary: 5 Stars
Tom Green breaks onto the Hollywood scene with a film that is offensive, disgusting, and cruel. Any decent person will declare Tom Green the AntiChrist after viewing this film. But, in an EXTREMELY twisted and bizarre sort of way, it is also very funny and sweet. Granted, he definitely takes things WAY over the top, down the other side, and all the way back for more, but, like it or not, that is the very reason that Tom Green exists in the first place. His MTV show was all about pushing the boundaries of what you can say or do on TV, and this movie is all about doing absolutely anything to get a laugh. You have to understand that Tom Green does not do these things because he thinks you will laugh, he does them because they make HIM laugh. Twirling a newborn over his head by the umbilical cord, manually stimulating farm animals, having a young boy get battered and bloodied every time he appears oncreen, these are all things that Tom finds funny. The truly amazing thing about this movie is that, through all of the gross-out crap and very, very, stupid things he does throughout, it still somehow manages to come across as innocent and sweet. The critics and most people, really, will not agree with that statement at all, but it is all done in good humor. He's not neccesarily trying to shock YOU, but rather he is attempting to one-up himself in each successive scene.
Tom Green is an artist, and though his vision is distorted and bizarre, he is still an artist, like it or not. Even if you take away the gross-out humor, of which there is a lot, the movie is still peppered with brilliant bits. The backwards man, getting past a security gate with gibberish, the "Daddy would you like some sausage?" bit, these, taken out of context, are hilarious and ingenious. He refuses to follow anyone's rules but his own, and this film is a testament to that.
Bottom line, if you like Tom Green see it. Everyone else, steer WAAAAAYYYYYYYY clear of this one. Only a handful in a million will like this movie, and I am one of them. This is not the usual everyday sanitized-for-your-protection kind of Hollywood garbage. This is low-brow high art.
Movie Review: A Comedy of Tragedy!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Freddy Got Fingered" is a misunderstood film about a father who doesn't respect his son & the son who eventually gains his fathers respect. The narrative is masked by politically incorrect pyrotechnics that were necessary to commit this work as being historically the most shockingly repulsive American made film. This film has little violence and a real life story. There are not any scenes of human hate or non consensual sex, no human torture or malice, just misunderstanding. American film goers can sit through scenes of people being disemboweled, shot to death and violently raped but when a man touches a penis of a horse we are shocked. If Tom Green were to grab the penis of a dog that would be less shocking only because sublimated penis envy is intolerable. The horse has an amazingly huge cock and males are threatened & repulsed by that. The protagonist is also socially challenged and that is a disability which is also intolerable. But, take away all of the adornments and there is a simple narrative of a father who's traditional beliefs of a career undermine his relationship and respect for his son. The father being the antagonist has disdain towards art as a career therefore overlooking his son's creative talents which reach far beyond animation but also include a knack for humorous writing. The son goes through a social ritual of fire and proves to his father his worthiness. The story is one of which 99 percent of fathers and son's share today and throughout history as well as in Shakespearean drama. So, dog this film if you want to but we all live the story and this one at least has a happy ending! By Craig Barr.Movie Review: Tom Green Doesn't Care That You Can't Understand This
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me start right off the bat by saying that I am a world class musician, I have worked in Hollywood as an editor for network television programs, and I have a 145 IQ that according to Mensa, neatly qualifys me as a genius. This is relevant only because Tom Green is himself a creative genius, and this is a movie made for the pallet of creative geniuses. It is not at all difficult to understand why so many people despise this film. If you are not extremely intelligent this movie will only confuse and anger you. Likewise, if you are highly intelligent but are not creatively oriented you will look down your nose at this film as an immature romp, having completely missed the humor and the point.
In this film Tom Green, for the first time in the history of cinema, NAILS the experience of being a creative genius in the presence of average, normal individuals.
His manic exploits, percieved by many to be immature gross-out humor, perfectly convey the contempt the creative genius has, not for the people around him, but for every maddeningly rediculous irrational thing the people around him think and believe.
Tom Green is breaking new ground in the arena of High Contempt in every scene, even thrashing the legs of his handicapped girlfriend with a cane and wallowing in the carcass of a road-kill deer in order to needle those who don't get the joke, and to act out his own deep seeded resentment for all things proper.
If you get what I am saying you will Love this movie. If I have offended you at all, stay away.
Movie Review: Tom Green's masterpiece...
Summary: 5 Stars
The first thing you should consider before watching this movie is Tom Green's comedy style. He is irreverent, bold and just plain stupid. If this kind of comedy isn't your thing then avoid this movie like the plague. References to sexual abuse, physical abuse, sperm spewing animals, sex fetishes and all this encapsulated in one movie that's so funny and over the top you'll be rolling on the floor and laughing. If sick tasteless humor isn't your thing you might want to avoid this movie. Otherwise, if you're game, check your morality and conscience at the door and let yourself enjoy this movie for what it is... Tom Green's true shining moment. I think Tom is so misunderstood in other movies. He has one type of comedy, and like you've seen in Road Trip and Charlie's Angels, it just doesn't fit unless the whole movie is over the top. This movie became an instant classic for me and I've tried to buy it for about a year now but couldn't find it anywhere. Last night I was at Blockbuster and I found it for $6.99 on the sale table. As you can imagine I felt like it was destiny and snatched it up. I watched it last night for the second or third time and I laughed so hard. It's the best $6.99 I've spent in quite some time. I'm going to cherish this one. As for the reference to the "thumb" movies in a previous review... Steve O'"Dork" doesn't even come close to Tom Green's comedic talent. Tom Green may just be one of the most misunderstood comedy geniuses of our time.