TDF Really Works (2011) User Reviews

Unfunny, uninventive, and unenjoyable

[mudtitan · 3/10 · 16 August 2022]

Needless to say, the humor of Ari Aster's "TDF Really Works" is juvenile. In all honesty, it felt nothing short of a bad YouTube skit. The best thing I can say about this short is that I laughed a little, though some of that was due to cringe. To think that this was released after "The Strange Thing about the Johnsons" is mind boggling.

Rating: F+, horrible.

2 Stars out of 5 Stars

[ajneeago96 · 4/10 · 12 September 2021]

Comparing this to the rest of Ari Asters filmography, I can see why this is hated so much. My opinion? Yeah it was something, if maybe a bit underwhelming. I just thought hearing a dick fart would of been cooler.

WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF

[opiaterein · 31 March 2021]

THESE THREE MINUTES WERE MORE TRAUMATIC THAN ALMOST TWO HOURS OF BRANDON CRONENBERG'S POSSESSOR.

I'M GONNA GO START PLANNING MY FUNERAL NOW.

Heredicktary

[Horst_In_Translation · 2/10 · 3 September 2019]

"TDF Really Works" is an American live action short film from 2011, so this one is moving closer to its 10th anniversary and it was written and directed by Ari Aster who enjoyed his big breakthrough not too long ago with the Toni Collette movie Hereditary. And I know people loved that one a lot, more than almost all horror films in recent years with Collette getting a great deal of awards recognition too. But now as for this one here, it shows that no matter how great your career may turn out to be, the way you started is always a completely different story. This ons is so bad honestly. But at least filmmakers don't have to worry about the stuff from their early career when wondering if they can ever make it because if Aster can despite how he started here, then everybody has a chance. By the way, he also acts in here. We have two guys in this one joking around until one takes it a bit too far and apparently gets criticized by the other, but it is all fairly harmless because immediately afterwards the film turns into a fake commercial for well the thingey of which you can read the letters on the photo for this film here on imdb. There is graphic animated explanation and elaboration on how it exactly worked, stuff you don't really want to see and I am already talking about how the ring is put on, not just when things turn bloody. It is a mess though, this explanation and the film itself. In the end, it turns back in some sort of frame work to the two buddies and we see one try out this project, also pay attention to the final picture when we see the offer and also what you may get as a gift in addition. Yep females get their fair share too. Anyway, knock knock jokes are really almost always unfunny unless Tom Hanks delivers them, but in this one here they certainly are not a success. Huge thumbs-down for this stinker of a movie. Glad it did not even ran for three minutes. Writing, camera work, acting and most of all comedy all sub-par, frequently even on failure territory. Highly not recommended.

From the Director of Hereditary?

[cgearheart · 7/10 · 16 April 2019]

Yes, it certainly is. Back in 2011, a young Ari Aster released this graphic, Tim and Eric-esque comedy short for the website "Funny or Die". The short film revolves around two young men who tell jokes and one of them pitches a new product called "Tino's Dick Fart", a device that allows you to transfer your fart to your genitals. What ensues is a weird and low budget commercial narrated by Aster. Carefree and stupid, this film is fun to look at as a time capsule piece.

The ring!!

[mrdonleone · 9/10 · 15 March 2020]

Of course we can always wonder what it means really do I have to tdf really to with the ring and everything and it's a great original thing and then we see of course all those great things that allows prohibited but you had what can we say what can we do it is the way it is and because of this we see these beautiful things which are not allowed in Islam button received in the movie and then of course we say this is a bit special and because it is a bit special we can read it like this movie inshallah

not really Ari's best

[Fernando-Rodrigues · 6/10 · 10 December 2020]

It's dark humored and it doesn't really needs to make sense, but fart jokes? really Ari?

Stupid but kind of funny

[Jeremy_Urquhart · 6/10 · 1 October 2023]

Against my better judgment, I found TDF Really Works funny. It's an infomercial for a fake product and I'm not sure I can describe it in a review without making the review inappropriate. It's definitely all shock humor, and pretty tacky overall. I don't think this deserved to be found funny, but I laughed a couple of times and it's less than three minutes long, so I can't in good conscience give something that's supposed to be funny a bad score if it did that.

If there was anything Ari Aster made that he might be embarrassed about today, I'd wager it would be TDF Really Works. But given it really feels more like an online sketch/skit rather than a short film (and it's considerably shorter than his other short films, as a result), it may not even count as a short film of his by some metrics.