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Freddy Got Fingered
2001
Self-made celebrity and outlaw of gross-out comedy, Tom Green (of MTV's TOM GREEN SHOW) makes the leap to the big screen with the outrageous semi-autobiographical FREDDY GOT FINGERED. Starring as Gord Brody, a slacker fast-approaching 30, yet still living in his father's basement, Green is his usual obtusely hilarious, .. Read more
| Starring | Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas |
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| Director | Tom Green |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Freddy Got Fingered
Self-made celebrity and outlaw of gross-out comedy, Tom Green (of MTV's TOM GREEN SHOW) makes the leap to the big screen with the outrageous semi-autobiographical FREDDY GOT FINGERED. Starring as Gord Brody, a slacker fast-approaching 30, yet still living in his father's basement, Green is his usual obtusely hilarious, polymorphously perverse self. Physical comedy ascends to the realm of extreme performance art as Brody's unachievable lifelong dream to become an animator causes him to clash with his hardened father (played by the steely and equally funny Rip Torn.) A furtive love affair with a wheelchair-bound rocket scientist and the disturbing hijinks of a troublesome younger brother named Freddy form the core of the sublimely stupid plot that serves mainly as a platform from which Green launches his incredible and often irrational comedic fare. Testing the limits of comedy, Green's deceptively moronic film does, at times, achieve a level of visual and conceptual cleverness, crafting ironic and primordial images from jokes on human folly.
| Starring | Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Julie Hagerty, Anthony Michael Hall, Harland Williams |
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| Director | Tom Green |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 23 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 14 Jan 2002 Production year: 2001 |
| Format | DVD |
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If your idea of a good night out is seeing an actor of Rip Torn's quality being deluged by elephant semen, then MTV maverick Tom Green's hideous directorial debut is what you've been waiting for. Plunging vulgarity to new depths, the humour is more bestial than lavatorial, and makes the Farrelly brothers seem like choirboys. The poor excuse for a plot centres on Green's inability to move out from the family home after his bid to become a Hollywood animator falls at the first hurdle. The systematic humiliation of father Torn and his family ensues, as well as a litany of gross-out “jokes” involving such subjects as incest and animal masturbation. But the only thing on your mind will be why a major studio allowed such an unfunny man to indulge so many disturbing fantasies.
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Flaunting a script so infantile it could have been written by a foetus, Green displays an unloveable persona behaving badly, and expects to be applauded for it.
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20 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Funny, really funny
It has been said that true art always invokes an emotional response. With that definition, Freddy Got Fingered is a pure masterpiece. That's not to say that it's good; it is excellent - perfect timing and craftsmanship for eliciting pure disgust and anguish on its viewers.
At its heart, it's a test. A test to see how much of an assault to basic taste, human dignity, or just about anything good in this world can be made before a person's stomach turns. I loved it all.
Challenging the boundaries of good taste is nothing new. But while an avant-garde artist may defecate on a canvas and hang it on the wall, Tom Green would be more likely to take the feces off the wall, eat it, and then vomit it up on to his own mother.
I think that explains the variety of opinions of this movie. Either you enjoyed it for it's ability to display a perfect sort of depraved insanity that stands as an affront to any sort of coherent goodness, or you hated it because there really is no way to take pleasure in watching something like that.
So, in my opinion it is a great movie, but I fully understand that it is not to everyone?s taste. It did exactly what it set out to do, and then some. It exceeded any and all expectations regarding the subject of filth. And the only adjective I can think of that truly describes it is simply 'evil'. Very well done evil, but evil to the core nonetheless. Hire it! -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
AAAAwesome
Awesome movie if you like Tom Green! Some of his best antics here. Rent it if you like twisted comedies - avoid if you are to uptight to enjoy some less intelligent. Such as "South park".
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