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Freddy Got Fingered [VHS]

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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.

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.

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.

...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!

I guess I am one of the lucky ones that decided to rent this so called movie before buying it. I found this movie to be more stupid than funny. If I wanted to watch some dude (Tom Green) play with a horse I would have rented a different movie.

Is about all I can say after having seen this film. I am in awe as to how dozens of people will put their money behind projects like this. To sum up how funny this movie is for someone that hasn't seen it, I will say this.
(and there are spoilers but i'm sure you'll thank me in the end for saving you 90 mins of your life)

In the movie tom...uh..."plays with" a horse and an elephant and covers himself in a roadkill deer's skin. Meanwhile all the charachters in the movie just don't seem to understand tom's over the top sense of humor and overreact to him. Overall the main plot is so weak that the only way they even try to keep viewers in the theater or on their couches are to give them an overkill dosage of what Tom usually does on his MTV show. Only this time it's not funny at all because all the pranks are being pulled on paid actors that have read the script and know what to expect. Pointless humor can be very funny (if not some of the best sort of humor) but the only people that would let out more than a chuckle are either hardcore Tom Green fans or they're going to laugh once they realized that the entire joke of the movie is that it wastes 90 mins of your life.

There are many words that could describe this movie; lame, stupid, gross, immature, shocking...none of these words, however, capture the feeling of absolute disgust I felt after watching 'Freddy Got Fingered'. I'm a teenager. I do not have terribly high moral standards, and it takes a lot to offend me. I'm an avid watcher of MTV's 'Jackass' and Comedy Central's 'South Park'. So I figured that this movie would appeal to me. The first trademark Tom Green scene involved his character, Gord, standing on a conveyor belt at a chese sandwhich factory holding a sausage between his legs. Although I didn't find it very funny, I thought I'd continue watching.

This was not a good idea. The cheese factory scene was followed by a pretty graphic scene involving two horses having sex. After nearly puking, in a few minutes I witnessed Gord bite off the umbilical cord after yanking out a woman's baby. It got worse and worse as it went along. No where in the movie was there anything that resembled a plot; only these disgusting scenes, all involving sex, that were supposed to be funny. The jokes may appeal to twelve year olds that haven't heard any of these words before, but they're not funny to people with an actual sense of humor.

If you are a fan of the Tom Green show, you will probably not like this movie. If you have any taste at all, you will not like this movie. If you do not enjoy seeing someone masturbate an elephant, you will not like this movie (and yes, this really does happen). I'm still shocked that someone could be dumb enough to make such a horrible and completely unhumerous movie. Do yourself a favor: don't watch this movie, and tell your friends not to either.

Every elementary school has them. Those sad, unhappy kids so miserably starved for attention, they'll do practically any disgusting act, no matter how pathetic or stupid it makes them look, just to get people to glance in their direction for a few measly seconds. You remember those kids. The ones who always chewed with their mouths open in the school cafeteria. Turned their eyelids inside out in class. Picked their noses and made a big show out of eating what they dug out. Swallowed worms and bugs out on the playground. Whatever it took, just to get a reaction, ANY reaction, from their otherwise disinterested and better-adjusted classmates. Well, if your fondest school memories revolved around watching those midget circus geeks debase themselves for your amusement, or if you yourself WERE one of those geeks and miss your glory days of chasing the girls around with handfuls of dead mice and dog poo, then boy howdy, have we got a movie for you! Tom Green has taken the non-art of "Please I'll do anything ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING if someone'll just LOOKIT me LOOKIT me PLEASE!" to an entirely new level of pathetic desperation, previously undreamt of by even the most outrageously emotional schoolyard schmuck, so if you're one of those who feels the best way to get noticed is to smear rotten eggs and frog guts in your hair, Tom Green is hereby nominated as your patron saint. Admire him. Worship him. Treat him with the adulation only your kind can give him. Just don't ask the rest of us to appreciate him too, 'cos we'll only have to hurt you. And then we'll steal your lunch money, ya nerds.

Nothing was good about it. It was just bad. It [stunk]. I can't say anthing else about it. We rented it from [a local store] a few days ago and I watched it and it was messed up. If you watch it you'll be sorry.

In a way, I'm glad I saw this movie. This movie has proved that I have grown up, and that I have matured. I found this movie completely void of humor. I'm not really sure what the movie studio was thinking shelling out money for this tripe, other than trying to capitalize of Tom Green's fifteen minutes before it was up. There are so many things wrong with this movie, that if I were to try and mention them all I'd be here all night, and I just don't have that time. But I'll hit the big point on why this movie is so bad while I'm here. First off, it's not funny. I don't know why Mr. Green would think that people would get a kick out him crawling around in deerskin after he gutted it himself. I suppose there are people out there that like that sort of thing... However, as stated earlier, I'm glad I've seen this movie, because I know that I have grown and the most immature movie ever made could not make me laugh.