Review of Freddy Got Fingered (2001) by Marco F — 29 Jan 2016

Tom Green's shtick is that you say, "What?" and give an uncomfortable laugh at his antics. He used this to get his own show on MTV, and he uses it here to make us empathetic to a loser character that does weird stuff.

Some of this I found ridiculously unneeded and deliberately stupid. Sometimes I actually laughed, because why not? There's also the question as to why Rip Torn acts like a degenerate, abusive pariah most of the film, and it's treated like an interesting quirk.

While there's really no reason to watch this film, sometimes it's funny to laugh at the weird, the inspired, and the zany. Though this film falls more under the heading of "gross" it's in the same vein.