Review of Freddy Got Fingered (2001) by Michael M — 12 Aug 2010

AO Scott and Roger Ebert were right. The day has come. Freddy Got Fingered is officially, declared by me, to be a "neo surrealist masterpiece" and a truly dadist film. Sniff sniff. Mmm. Pretensions about a movie with lots of elephant jism (what is the correct Websters spelling of that?). Christ. Is this what 2010 has wrought? Yes. And why were people more freaked out about the birthing scene than the bestiality porn scenes? I mean, really?

It's sort of hard to describe this movie other than it's extremely irritating but through sheer force of will Tom Green succeeds. Imagine the plot of a standard gross out comedy? Well, Tom decided to abandon that in the first fifteen minutes rather quickly and without much fanfare. He burts in, irritates, leaves, and then the oedipal nightmare of a drunken Rip Torn sets in, sort of mirroring Tom Green's real life I suppose.

I just want to say that I love Rip Torn made this movie. RIP FUCKING TORN ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE COVERED IN ELEPHANT SPERM. ON FILM. RIP TORN.

I also love unnecessarily angry scenes and the restaurant scene takes the cake.

Literally!

I don't ... uh...

Yeah. I can't recommend this movie to anyone. But you should probably watch it for the experience.