Product Details

• Actors: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Julie Haggerty, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Marisa Coughlan
• Directors: Tom Green
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• 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 (294 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005O5L7
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,303 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible isn't strong enough, June 28, 2001

By	Jason S. Penshorn "Sal" (Winston-Salem, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For the most part, I like Tom Green, so I gave his movie a try. What a huge mistake. Literally 5 minutes into the movie half the theatre was gone. Apparently spinning a newborn around by its umbilical cord is comedy--and that's the most pleasant thing I could mention. This was by far the worst movie I have ever seen, and not one of those "so bad it's funny" movies like Hudson Hawk or Plan 9. It was insulting, disgusting, horrifying, and just plain awful. This movie aims very very low, and overachieves in that regard. DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE!

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm not stupid or easily offended but I hated this movie, November 10, 2001

By	Brian (Ohio) - See all my reviews

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.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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.