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Freddy Got Fingered
2001 · Film · 87 min
Directed by Tom Green
Unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody moves back in with his parents Jim and Julie and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he retaliates by spreading rumors that Jim is sexually abusing Freddy.
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I saw a recent reappraisal of Freddy Got Fingered by Red Letter Media* that was very interesting; apparently it was also meant as a cash grab, and Tom Green decided to make the weirdest movie he could possibly make. While I don't really like the gross-out style of movie, the discussion of the movie really reinforced my dislike of reviews in general.
*: I am aware of the contradiction; in my defense, I mostly care about their comments about movie structure.
Critics underrate movies too.
Freddy Got Fingered, the movie I personally found funniest, is currently at 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's full of creative and quotable scenes, and never resorts to tired cliches (despite its genre there is no toilet humor). Penalizing a gross-out comedy for being "gross" is a clear failure of criticism. Even Roger Ebert, who usually judged movies by the standards of the genre, made this mistake.
Batman v Superman, the superhero movie I personally found most engaging, is at 29%. It's one of the few movies in the genre that feels like it has any ambition to be serious art. It takes the characters seriously, without the constant jokes the Marvel movies use to reassure the audience that they're not really comic book nerds. Critics considered this a reason to rate it poorly.
Anyone else immediately think of the movie Freddy got Fingered?
https://youtu.be/ZtyxJSGM3x0
I'm sure we'll start to see tiktok/youtube movies in the theaters soon enough. By that I mean studios pulling in stars to make god knows what (if we're lucky it'll be something like Freddy got fingered).
From the Roger Ebert review of "Freddy Got Fingered" [4.6/10 IMDB] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240515/
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.
I'm appalled that for someone out there, Freddy Got Fingered is the funniest movie they've ever seen. Likewise, that Lost In Translation is the most boring.
I find the same thing. For example, the funniest movie I've ever seen is "Freddy Got Fingered". This is currently rated 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. And the most boring movie I've seen is "Lost In Translation", which is rated 95% there. In both cases I watched them because I liked the lead actor's previous work, and that's had a better success rate than trusting reviews.
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I'll just leave one of my favorite quotes from Ebert about a movie that is actually one of my all time favorite comedy.
"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." [1]
- Roger Ebert review of "Freddy Got Fingered"; April 20, 2001
[1] http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010420/REVIEWS/104200304/1023
That's why I usually don't care what critics say. Or I take it as a clue to do the opposite. Tastes differ. And my taste seem to differ a lot.
This being said, Freddy Got Fingered is one of my favorite movies.