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Freddy Got Fingered
20th Century Fox Film Corporation


6.3

based on 25 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for crude sexual and bizarre humor, and for strong language

Starring Tom Green, Rip Torn, Harland Williams, Marisa Coughlan, and Julie Hagerty

MTV icon Tom Green co-writes, directs and stars in Freddy Got Fingered, a film he calls a "touching story of a young man who desperately wants to make his daddy proud." (Twentieth Century Fox)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Tom Green Derek Harvie
DIRECTED BY:	Tom Green
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: October 23, 2001 Video: October 23, 2001 Theatrical: April 20, 2001
RUNNING TIME:	87 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

The New York Times Dana Stevens

The movie's comic heart consists of a series of indescribably loopy, elaborately conceived happenings that are at once rigorous and chaotic, idiotic and brilliant.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

The earnestness of some of the drama in the only deceptively unsophisticated narrative may be more shocking than any of the gross-outs.

Village Voice Jessica Winter

A frat-boy remake of "Pink Flamingos" which isn't all bad.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

His (Green) new gross-out comedy is crude and stupid, but just as often rudely funny. It doesn't so much push the envelope as shred it.

New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson

The film is a somewhat disjointed affair that, like the man himself (Green), is occasionally brilliant, frequently repetitive and sometimes merely annoying.

TV Guide Steve Simels

To be fair, this is hardly the worst gross-out comedy ever made; it's nowhere as misogynistic as, say, "Tomcats," and in the end, it probably won't leave you in a state of utter nihilistic despair.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Formidably stupid.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Exhaustingly manic but curiously unfunny movie.

San Francisco Chronicle Wesley Morris

The film is like watching Ozzy Osbourne bite the head off a rubber bat -- it's only almost heinous.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

Not since Andy Kaufman's reign of terror has a supposed funnyman been so self-indulgently persistent in testing a fan's patience.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

It feels manufactured to be suitable for mass consumption.

Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark

It's a gleefully unfettered gross-a-thon first --also second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth -- and a movie perhaps seventh.

LA Weekly John Patterson

Lurches from one set-piece stomach-lurcher to the next with nary a nod to narrative coherence.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

The movie is simply not professional. It's not, even by the lowest standards of Republic B-westerns in the '30s or bad, cheap horror films in the '50s, releasable.

Film.com Robert Horton

Do not bring children to this movie unless you want them to have nightmares for weeks.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

In a sense, this is a horror film, worse than anything Andy Kaufman could dream up, in which Green tries to outgross himself.

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

Even the movie finds itself asking when it'll end. Not soon enough.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

It's a performance that screams "Look at me!" louder and bigger than an elephant dick. And every bit as subtle.

Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

Bad decision after bad decision occurs over 93 minutes.

Variety Robert Koehler

One of the most brutally awful comedies ever to emerge from a major studio.

Slate David Edelstein

The most appalling comedy of the millennium after "Joe Dirt," which is so supernaturally terrible that it levitated me out of the theater after 40 minutes.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

To dismiss this movie for being ''offensive'' would be to offer it high praise.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

So awful it qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Green, who looks like a chinless, hollow-eyed pederast at the best of times, is simply out of his league here, and the fact that the film drags interminably when it's actually a very average 90 minutes long betrays its essential emptiness.

The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 107 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Steven M gave it a0:
Utter rubbish. Tries too hard to be random and stupid and fails for the most part. only one or two scenes in the hour that i endured made me laugh. the rest just had me cringing at the fact i was watching the film.

Tom G. gave it a10:
it was meant to be funny not clever and it nailed it. People who believe comedy only comes from subtle wit should avoid this but people who appreciate a variety of comedy and can enjoy 'silly' and 'crude' will love it. Best watched with mates. Just don't judge it on intelligence and subtlety.

Angel E. gave it a10:
Yet another of my all time favorite movies gets ripped to shreds by paid critics. I don't get why this movie received such poor reviews. I laughed from beginning to end, then laughed some more when the credits rolled and I got to see the outtakes. The real question you will keep asking yourself is why didn't you get a LeBaron. Do yourself a favor and buy this movie!

Steve M. gave it a10:
Best movie. Tom Green is a genius. Every scene had me dying. "I want to eat chicken burgers!" Oh god, it's so good.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
worst movie that I ever saw in the theater....poor choice.

Brian N gave it a0:
Freddy gets fingered, audience gets f***ed.

Abby L gave it a10:
I have 6 words for everyone who hasn't seen this movie: Daddy would you like some sausages?

Freddy Got Fingered 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Freddy Got Fingered
20th Century Fox Film Corporation