Freddy Got Fingered
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A touching story of a young man who desperately wants to make his daddy proud.
An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
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This film is a misunderstood classic. Ive always been a big fan of Tom Green and this film is a big mess of ridiculousness which is what he was all about. It always makes me laugh although I can see why many would disagree. Not for the easily offended.
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An abomination, nothing more.
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"Many years ago, when surrealism was new, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali made "Un Chien Andalou," a film so shocking that Bunuel filled his pockets with stones to throw at the audience if it attacked him. Green, whose film is in the surrealist tradition, may want to consider the same tactic. The day may come when "Freddy Got Fingered" is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny."
RIP, Roger Ebert. The legendary American film critic who's opinion I hold in the highest regard and who's writing will always be an inspiration to me. No other critic was able to demonstrate an extensive understanding of film and capture a rich enthusiasm for cinema like Ebert always did.
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How did this film get made? There are some funny parts but they are outweighed by so many ridiculously dumb jokes that are crude for crude sake.
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This certainly isn't an easy thing to approach, but damn it, it was not boring (I have to admit I even laughed a couple of times). It's its own movie and it was actually a lot more cohesive than I was expecting it to be. It's definitely more of a movie than those Disaster Movie bullshit. Of course there's a lot of shock value in it, but if anything, it only makes it be less forgettable (I have never seen anything like it for sure). Now, I can't say the movie is great, but I can say I will probably never forget it, so it has at least that going for it. In that sense it is better than something like The Amazing Spider-man.
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Saw this movie 5 times.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Probably the purest artistic expression ever released by a major studio. Everything on screen is precisely as Tom Green wanted it. No studio executive who ever lived would have given a single note to include anything that made it into the final cut.
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I love and miss Tom Green's knack for offensive comedy. So overdone, but not so annoying as one Jim Carey. A groundbreaking comedian in so many ways. Freddy Got Fingered is intelligently stupid.
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Catering for non-mainstream humour although I'm sure any of us could make the same.
Highlights: Too many.
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This is not a comdey for everyone But its definitely one for me.. sadly i act like him a lil bit so I can relate lol.. outlandish comedy
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Incredibly surreal, surprisingly brilliant.
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If you want to see a man:
- wank off a horse
- get inside a deer
- bite an umbilical cord and tape it to his belly
- wank off an elephant, covering his dad in elephant sementhis is the film for you!
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It's been 7+ years since I last sat down to re-watch this and although I have gotten older and possibly more mature, I still think there are some parts of this that are genuinely hilarious. It's a wildly uneven film that's often terrible, sometimes offensive or even plain stupid. But Tom Green puts together a darn good soundtrack and those couple of moments that are still funny? Wildly so, moments of comedic gold which almost make the whole film worth while. When I was only 20 or so I found everything in this funny so there's your comparison. This will probably be the 8th or so time I've seen this so I don't think I will re-watching it unless another 7 years pass
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I sincerely believe this to be one of the most innovative comedies ever made, and one of the most innovative films of the 2000's overall. Though FGF effectively exists as a $14 million dollar prank at 20th Century Fox's expense, you can trace the lineage of the Tim and Eric school of casual (or extreme) surrealist comedy right to this cheese-sandwich stuffed, horse cock filled work of dadaist genius.