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: Color, NTSC
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: October 23, 2001
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (302 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005O5L8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #642,312 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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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

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18 of 25 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.

24 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The only thing worse than this film..., August 2, 2001

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"johnlynchfan" (America) - See all my reviews

...Is the utter state of mental arrest the viewing public is experiencing. I have to assume that all those who gave this movie more than 1 star are either being facetious or are simply morally/intellectually dead. I was paid to see this film (local newspaper), so unfortunately I couldn't walk out. Let me explain something about film. Simply becuase the film accomplishes it's goal, that does not mean it's a good film. If a movie is nothing more than watching grass grow for three hours, it is not a success because it set out to bore us and it did. If a film is nothing but a dark screen and the sound of an ambulance siren, the filmmaker who set out to annoy us does not have a success on his hands. You get the point.

Tom Green set out to offend and disgust us. I have to assume this because nobody with a cerebral cortex or ... to see this movie should find any of this funny, and Tom Green (and the now fired studio exec who okayed this project) must have known that. Yes, Mr. Green, we are offended (those of us with the aforementioned brain functions). Congrats. Although you are clearly a sociopath and your capacity for humor is on par with Dr. Mengalie, you have a devoted group of morons behind you who think being offended is funny.

Also, thank you to the reviewer from the New York Times who applauded Green's use of his first amendment rights. Perhaps, thanks to Tom Green, art will be reinterpreted and garbage like this will put inbred troglodytes like Tom Green on the rack.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A bad acid trip!!, March 24, 2002

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Jason Ostrowski "HomeTheaterGuy" (Morristown, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freddy Got Fingered (DVD)

...I'm still trying to grasp what I just saw! This movie makes absolutely no sense what so ever! From time to time I used to watch the Tom Green show on MTV. There were times when I laughed my butt off and there were times where my head was spinning from the demented, twisted skits that just passed before my eyes. Tom Green is the type of guy that dresses like a court jester and entertains you...and just when you start to laugh at his childish, nonsensical antics, he slams you in the back of the head with a sledgehammer. At least on MTV, his skits were kept to a few minutes a piece within a 30-minute time slot. That is the forum that is best suited for him! It allows him some freedom, while maintaining some control. That's the problem that plagues this movie. It is 87 minutes of those bizarre gags thrown on top of a movie that barely ... has a plot.
From what I understand, the "plot" goes like this...Tom Green plays a 28-year-old guy who has 2 goals in life, to be animator and to move out of his parents' house. The movie starts out with him going to Hollywood armed only with his drawings and his dreams. When he gets there, we realize his body of work consists of a few pieces of paper with pictures on it and he doesn't have a plot for the cartoon. That's it.... That's the whole movie.... I can only imagine that he walked into the studio with this script under his arm in that same fashion!! The rest of the movie is just a series of skits that are vile, disturbing and every once in a while, a little funny.... The only way to describe this movie is...it's like a bad acid trip!!!! This movie makes Me, Myself and Irene look like a comic masterpiece!