As I've said many times before in comments on this site, I'm a fan of bad movies. Sort of a sick hobby I have. So, if I hear really, really awful things about a movie chances are I'm going to rent it. That was the case with "Freddy Got Fingered"
I've seen many terrible films. There are many different ways to screw up a movie, from the obvious crime mystery film, to the not-scary horror movie. I think all the very worst films are genre films that fail at that genre's defining quality, and Freddy Got Fingered fits that bill - perhaps the worst type of film there is, a comedy that isn't funny.
I admit, I was one of those who for a month or two enjoyed the Tom Green Show fad on MTV. However, as we all knew deep inside, staying power wasn't an attribute that this poor-man's Jim Carrey possessed. (could anything be worse than being called a poor-man's Jim Carrey?)
Anyways. Road Trip was nothing special, but funny and inventive at times. Tom Green has always been one who thrived on pushing the limits of decency as a way of getting you to laugh. Freddy Got Fingered (written and directed by Green if I recall) certainly attempts this, and there were quite a few times where I questioned whether the R rating was severe enough. So, preface this review with the general idea that Freddy Got Fingered is a push-the-limits comedy that isn't funny.
Basically, half of the film (and indeed Tom Green's career) revolves around this comic premise: First, Green touches, does, or places in his mouth something revolting. Second, he repeats some jibberish over and over. Third, he continues repeating the jibberish louder, while making faces a 3 year old would be jealous of, while running around the scene flapping his arms or rolling on the ground.
The other half of the scenes are built around this joke: Green does something stupid. His father swears at him like a drunken sailor. Green swears back. Not funny the first time, let alone the 20th time.
There, basically I have summed up the plot. Oh, there is some bit about his dream to be a famous animator and having his own cartoon about a cat with x-ray vision, or centaur-looking zebra things, but if you remember that after seeing green masturbate a horse, chew through an umbilical cord, suck on the bone protruding from a compound fracture, gut a road-killed deer to wear its corpse like a fur coat, or beat a paraplegic senseless, then you are a much hardier moviegoer than I am.
These things are supposed to make you laugh, but after several episodes of his TV show, and his first movie, seeing him lick something gross and scrunch up his face while babbling incoherently just doesn't do it for me anymore. I laughed one time during this movie, when Green is getting off a plane and someone in the awaiting crowd held up a sign that said "when is this movie going to end?" or something to that effect. It was almost a cop-out, as if to say the makers of this film threw that in hoping people would think they meant the movie to be this bad.
There are no redeeming qualities to this film. There are no reasons to see it at all, because (A) it's not funny, (B) it will probably make you sick, and (C) no one needs to spend money on this type of crap, because it only encourages hollywood to generate more.
0 out of 5 stars, with a rude gesture to those responsible.
I've seen many terrible films. There are many different ways to screw up a movie, from the obvious crime mystery film, to the not-scary horror movie. I think all the very worst films are genre films that fail at that genre's defining quality, and Freddy Got Fingered fits that bill - perhaps the worst type of film there is, a comedy that isn't funny.
I admit, I was one of those who for a month or two enjoyed the Tom Green Show fad on MTV. However, as we all knew deep inside, staying power wasn't an attribute that this poor-man's Jim Carrey possessed. (could anything be worse than being called a poor-man's Jim Carrey?)
Anyways. Road Trip was nothing special, but funny and inventive at times. Tom Green has always been one who thrived on pushing the limits of decency as a way of getting you to laugh. Freddy Got Fingered (written and directed by Green if I recall) certainly attempts this, and there were quite a few times where I questioned whether the R rating was severe enough. So, preface this review with the general idea that Freddy Got Fingered is a push-the-limits comedy that isn't funny.
Basically, half of the film (and indeed Tom Green's career) revolves around this comic premise: First, Green touches, does, or places in his mouth something revolting. Second, he repeats some jibberish over and over. Third, he continues repeating the jibberish louder, while making faces a 3 year old would be jealous of, while running around the scene flapping his arms or rolling on the ground.
The other half of the scenes are built around this joke: Green does something stupid. His father swears at him like a drunken sailor. Green swears back. Not funny the first time, let alone the 20th time.
There, basically I have summed up the plot. Oh, there is some bit about his dream to be a famous animator and having his own cartoon about a cat with x-ray vision, or centaur-looking zebra things, but if you remember that after seeing green masturbate a horse, chew through an umbilical cord, suck on the bone protruding from a compound fracture, gut a road-killed deer to wear its corpse like a fur coat, or beat a paraplegic senseless, then you are a much hardier moviegoer than I am.
These things are supposed to make you laugh, but after several episodes of his TV show, and his first movie, seeing him lick something gross and scrunch up his face while babbling incoherently just doesn't do it for me anymore. I laughed one time during this movie, when Green is getting off a plane and someone in the awaiting crowd held up a sign that said "when is this movie going to end?" or something to that effect. It was almost a cop-out, as if to say the makers of this film threw that in hoping people would think they meant the movie to be this bad.
There are no redeeming qualities to this film. There are no reasons to see it at all, because (A) it's not funny, (B) it will probably make you sick, and (C) no one needs to spend money on this type of crap, because it only encourages hollywood to generate more.
0 out of 5 stars, with a rude gesture to those responsible.