Product Details

• Actors: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Harland Williams
• Directors: Tom Green
• Writers: Tom Green, Derek Harvie
• Producers: Arnon Milchan, Derek Harvie, Howard Lapides, Larry Brezner, Lauren Lloyd
• Format: PAL
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (302 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000634AS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,344 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Freddy Got Fingered" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

MTV's maniacal prankster, Tom Green, takes his surreal nonsense to the movies in Freddy Got Fingered. Playing a Portland, Oregon, goofball who dreams of becoming an animator, Green barely stitches together a rudimentary plot, but he does pile on the kind of agonizing nonsense that is his stock-in-trade: chewing through an umbilical cord, licking somebody's compound fracture, and presenting a sausage-and-keyboard contraption that surely would have delighted early-20th-century Dadaists. Predictably, Green loses something in the transition from television's freeform, microscopic glare to the more formal demands of cinema, and the result isn't pretty. The trouble is, this stuff is largely unsuitable for the broad scope of a movie and, in contrast to the guerrilla tactics of Green's TV show, is prefabricated for the lumbering process of filmmaking. That, in turn, diminishes the effectiveness of Green's grenade-throwing humor and makes Freddy Got Fingered something of a desperate experience. --Tom Keogh

From The New Yorker

The method of the freak-out comedian Tom Green, here directing his first movie, is pretty simple: he takes the things that people regard as sacred-pregnant women, defenseless children, the father-son relationship-and savages them like a cable-comedy-show Bu–uel. Green gives us burlesque cruelties, put-on sex, ketchupy blood showers, and lots of American cheese in revolting slices. After a while, you know what's coming, and Green's outrages turn out to be shocking not because they're vicious and profane but because they're so badly staged. The film has been described in some quarters as a work of art, but it doesn't have any aesthetic qualities that one could point to: it's madly egotistical, rhythmless, badly lit, terribly edited. Green seems to be daring people to leave, an act of bravado that's not necessarily a sign of talent. With Rip Torn. -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

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18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars C'mon Folks, it isn't THAT bad, and it's Tom Green - what did you expect - Gone With The Wind?, January 14, 2007

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R. J. Marques "saintricardo" (Scottsdale, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freddy Got Fingered (DVD)

Ok, I'm only writing this because I wound up popping this DVD into my player last night and watching it again. I bought this movie years ago after first seeing it and laughing like an imbecile pretty much throughout.

Yes, it's sick humor. No, it's not for everyone. But this IS Tom Green! I can't imagine what some of the people who reviewed this movie were expecting - Citizen Kane? C'MON PEOPLE!

There is precious little plot - just enough for each Tom Green site gag or gross out gag, which is basically what Tom Green does and is known for. Letting him direct this film, I can't imagine what people thought they'd see? Most people I know did not like this film, and a close friend of mine still will make fun of me for liking it, if I ever bring up the title, but so what?

If lowbrow humor, sight gags and gross out scenes make you chuckle, this film is for you. Also, great acting, as usual, from Rip Torn - he's hysterical.

Just remind yourself it's a Tom Green vehicle, and you're only watching it for the lowbrow humor, you'll be fine. If you sit down to watch a major movie production, yes, you'll be disappointed but I don't think that was even close to the aim of this movie.

Still ridiculously funny after all these years. The baby scene, the "Backwards Man" scene, and the sausage scene are absolutely inane, yet priceless.

15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Worst Of the year, August 13, 2001

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This review is from: Freddy Got Fingered (DVD)

I had high hopes going into this movie and was very dissapointed. It wasn't funny at all and I ferlt sick watching it. I don't reccomend it to anyone with a weak stomach.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Putrid, July 19, 2010

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M. J. Palmer "panzer" (Queensland, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freddy Got Fingered (DVD)

A worthless movie by a talentless, vulgar moron. Would give it zero stars if I could. Belongs on the trash heap along with the 'spoof' movies.