corneliusscrotumbottom
This movie is pretty funny, but you need a very peculiar sense of humor to appreciate it. If you're like me and burst out laughing at the idea of wild animalistic clowns making honking noises with their red noses to signal their attack, Freddy Got Fingered will make you laugh so hard green goo will spurt from your nipples!
robertmaybeth
Now it's totally fair to drag this very strange film through the mud. And it really is a bad movie, not good at all. Is it funny though? On a very limited level - yes, it is. As long as you already KNOW this film is crap, on the crappiest level of crap you could invent in all crap-dom - it still might be worth a look. Why, because this film was the logical extension of Tom Green's own brand of Canadian madness, one not found in Monty Python, Saturday night live (not even the dark years of seasons 6 through 10), or "Kids in the Hall" at their very worst. Coming from a guy who did anything for a laugh, or just to be flat- out weird on his own MTV show in the golden pre-9/11 MTV show years of the early 2000's, this film slots perfectly into Green's own self-deprecating, anything-goes ultra- weirdness. And having already consumed Green's show, his (surprisingly well written and even poignant) autobiography, "Freddy" ties it all together somehow, one man's strangely warped and twisted version of life and how he throws it all right back in our collective faces, saying in essence "Is THIS weird enough for you? How about now?" And you've never seen deliberate, shoddily written, bizarre CRAP (that word again) like this before, and (hopefully) you are not likely to see it again either. Something to offend the whole family, a front row seat at a one-man freak show, that's "Freddy got fingered"!
framptonhollis
Universally hated upon its first release, "Freddy Got fingered" has lived on to, despite its cult reputation, be hailed by many as one of, if not the, worst comedies of all time. It's a dark, sometimes genuinely disturbing movie that throws all logic or good taste out of the window with anarchic glee in such a way that few people could possibly appreciate it; however, i feel as if i am one of those people.The movie is crawling with major problems for sure but I find it to be too hilarious to dismiss as one of the worst movies ever made; as a matter of fact, I consider it to be one of the better comedies of the 21st century so far due to its surrealist nature and dark wit. When one thinks about it, "Freddy got Fingered" is a genuinely sad movie that could have easily been directed by Todd Solondz and be made into a much more dramatic, if still darkly comic, film that could have garnered at least mixed reviews; but, alas, its fate was far worse than I can even comprehend. I understand fully why this film is hated by many, but I will never understand why it is hated by SO many, and someday I hope it will be rediscovered and recognized as the bizarre work of absurdist art that it truly is. Seriously, this is a misunderstood work that mocks its own clichés and is fully aware of its grotesque, vile, and often mean spirited nature and relishes in it. In terms of dark topics go, almost nothing is sacred in "Fingered", there's mental illness, quirky sexual fetishes, animal abuse/masturbation (!) (seriously though, within the first ten minutes of this movie Tom Green jerks off a horse and I wasn't sure whether I should continue laughing or just turn the f*cking movie off), and, most prominently (!!!), child molestation (there is also a running gag in which a small boy is constantly being injured throughout the film; now that i'm recording some of these concepts and visuals down, perhaps I do understand the universal hatred for the movie). It takes a man with a sick sense of humor such as myself to appreciate the true underlying magic of "Freddy got fingered", one that makes it feel less like your typical stupid gross out comedy and more like a satirical surrealist art movie that just happens to include a scene in which Tom Green sprays a massive swarm of elephant semen at his father (played drunkenly and hysterically by Rip Torn in one of his funniest, most oddly petrifying roles).Essentially, "Freddy Got Fingered" is a live action cartoon; but this is not an ordinary cartoon! This is a cartoon that is made up of elements from psychological dramas, the weirdest material found in the works of Luis Bunuel, "South Park", Tim and Eric, crude, immature sex jokes, terrifying animal-abuse-based "humor", insanely bizarre lines of genuinely hilarious dialogue, and whatever else could possibly squeeze itself into the chaotic recipe of this giant, occasionally masterful mess. Those with the stomach to handle it and the sick, sometimes (but NOT ALWAYS) immature mind may be able to appreciate this incredibly divisive (but mostly just hated, although it definitely has its following, which I hope will continue to grow along with the internet age of dark humor) piece of creative modern art/black comedy/ironic satire/gross out flick/movie that is basically the comedic equivalent of "Antichrist", "A Serbian Film", and the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini (although I must admit that Pasolini was something of a humorist, and the main films of his that "Fingered" recall are "The Decameron" and "The Canterbury Tales" which are both laugh out loud masterpieces of comedy).
