Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
jewittdirk
I am not going to waste your time trying to convince you that this movie is actually good. I know that nothing I say could change your mind. This movie divides everyone. I laughed so hard watching this. Maybe you need to remember that this movie is intentional. Or don't and miss out. I don't care. I liked it
jeditrainerjb
I had to throw the DVD case of these movie against a dumpster just to feel normal again. There's no consistency with the character, other than them being consistently annoying. I felt like Tom Green actively hated the idea of people enjoying movies, and that's why he made this.
grahamcarter-1
Green plays Gordon "Gord" Brody, a 28 year old aspiring cartoonist, who armed with little but a dream and a bag full of dripping baboon eyeballs, heads off to Hollywood to secure a TV franchise.'… Fingered' starts with a relatively straightforward plot, solely so it can discard it. Gord's Hollywood adventures are over in about 15 minutes, at which point the film turns into a black-comic psychodrama about Gord's hate- hate relationship with his father Jim. Nobody plays drunken, rage-addicted authority figures quite like Rip Torn; he attacks his role here as if he were performing in an avant-garde art movie rather than a gross- out vehicle for a MTV personality.Watching 'Freddy Got Fingered,' I was at times shocked by the fact that 20th Century-Fox distributed this film. How do I explain... let me take you back to 1977. Remember Joe D'Amato? You are thinking horse cock, so you do know whom I am talking about. He made 'Emanuelle In America' with Pedro's black and pink equine member, and I also recall 1982's 'Caligula: The Untold Story,' which some felt would have been better untold after seeing the horse masturbation scene. Me, I think if you watch a D'Amato film, you are crazy to think there will not be the possibility of horse cock. There was a precedent, Walerian Borowczyk' 1975 'Le Bete' (The Beast) which had horse (and beast) cock. Klaus Kinski when given the chance to direct the film 'Kinski Paganini' (1989) felt the need to show an equine member too. So let us not think for a minute that Tom Green is breaking some new ground in what I am about to discuss (which you have probably figured out is horse cock). The point of interest here is that this film was bankrolled by a major Hollywood film studio where the others were made by crazy European's who prefer sex to good old fashioned American violence anyway. Therefore, they do not count.As Gord is driving away from Portland, he passes a horse stud where a stallion is being prepared to do his stallion thing. Gord in a fit of child like amazement skids his LeBaron to a halt leaps the fence and grabs a hold of the erect horse cock exclaiming, "Look at me daddy, I'm a farmer!" (D'Amato never treated his cocks so lightly). That is it. It has no further point… well, its character development I suppose. Are you like me in wondering what a different world it would be if Joe D'Amato had made films for 20th Century-Fox? Well, he cannot now because he is dead.Other outrageous events include Gord's friend Darren breaks his leg. Bone is sticking out, and Gord helps in the only way he can by licking the bone. This in many ways seemingly pointless scene serves the purpose of getting us to the hospital, where we meet Betty a blow-job-obsessed wheel chair bound brain surgeon and amateur rocket scientist who attains sexual satisfaction from being whacked in the legs with a bamboo rod. Take a minute to absorb that.Later on, Gord when at family counseling accuses his father of touching his brother Freddy, "he fingered him behind the shed!" He also suggests his mother should not put up with his father and urges his mother to have sex with basketball players, and Greeks, and satisfy her sexual urges.There is a tedious little montage to music, but it all ends happily with Julie in bed with a basketball player (Shaq), and Gord gets a TV contract, with a series based on his family (drawn as Zebras). Gord pitches "Zebras in America" as an African American Greek myth. The TV exec though does not find the father zebra realistic, until Jim comes into the office during the interview in a psychotic rage. Davidson thinks it's the greatest pitch ever, a great piece of performance art! He signs a cheque on the spot.On release '… Fingered' received universal condemnation. Roger Ebert gave the film a zero star rating, and had a memorable line "...the day may come when Freddy Got Fingered is seen as a milestone of neo- surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny." Rather tellingly when later reviewing 2002's 'Stealing Harvard' Ebert brought up '… Fingered.' '…for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt… Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing." The studio must have asked, "Do you have to have so many giant animal cocks?" "Doesn't the first giant horse cock get the point across?" "The restaurant scene where Betty is called a "retard slut"; isn't that potentially off- putting to women in the coveted 18 to 35 demographic?"'…Fingered' is less as a conventional comedy than as a $15 million prank. It did not invent the gross-out comedy, but it elevated it to unprecedented heights of depravity.
