Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Grade: F
Cast: Tom Green, Marisa Coughlin, Rip Torn, and Harland Williams
Director: Tom Green
Rated R for offensive, gross-out humor


Canada's national treasure, Tom Green, has just given this part of North America a big slap across the face. We give him fame, fortune, and Drew Barrymore; and what do we get in return? This smelly, nasty piece of tripe that barely passes off as a movie. He has unleashed his havoc upon us and to some pretty iffy results, if I must say so myself.

We've had gross-out comedy before. "There's Something About Mary," "American Pie," "Kingpin," all of these films spring to mind when you hear the words 'gross out humor'. But now, Tom Green has taken these three words to a new level and has offended the small bit of U.S. citizens that have actually seen the film. I myself, would never have paid to see this movie. I got in for free.

The film revolves around Gordy (Green). A 28-year old slacker who still lives in the basement of his parent's house. Finally motivated by his dad (Rip Torn), he takes his animations out to Hollywood and tries to sell his cartoon. Needless to say, things don't go very well for him. He's rejected and moves back to the basement. It's back home that he meets a nice, paraplegic girl (Marisa Coughlin) who gets satisfaction out of being smacked with wooden sticks in her paralyzed shins. Well, for the rest of the movie, you have your standard love story motions that most films go through. You also have the big climax, and the underdog wins. Wonderful. Good. It's finally over. Amen!

The thing that bothers me most about this film is that Tom Green can be a funny guy. Come on, let's all admit that his show wasn't that bad. It was bearable. You could laugh at some of the pranks. Then it got old, and Green wore his welcome out. So, what's the next logical career move? Why, make a movie, of course. But he can't make a movie just like his TV show, so he ups the ante. He decides to make it ten times more gross, disgusting, and offensive than his show was. And the result? A film so stultifying and stupid that even the title even makes you cringe. (I'll let you in on a little secret: Green's brother's name in the movie is Freddy and there's a subplot about dad's sexual abuse of little Freddy.)

In the film, Green certainly got away with more than he should have for an R-rating. Let's see: he skins a deer, guts said deer, and wears it's skin as clothes, engages in sexual activities with a horse and an elephant, makes fun of crippled people, has a little boy get chopped up in airplane propellers, bites an ambilical cord in half, and then swings a supposedly dead baby around by the same ambilical cord, and makes fun of sexual abuse. Pretty good for ninty minutes worth of film don'tcha think? I have a high threshold for gross-out films, but I actually got up and walked out of the theater during the baby scene. That's saying something.

All in all, I will have to say that this is the most vile, offensive, disgusting, biggest pile of cow dung that I have ever had the (dis)pleasure of watching. This is the worst movie I have ever seen and doesn't even deserve to have it's title uttered in the same sentences with some of the worst movies of the past years.

Tom Green, judging by this film alone, you have outworn you're welcome here in the states. Canada, you can have him back. Go wreak havoc elsewhere.


--Brian Jones, July 2002