Freddy Got Fingered

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.