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Freddy Got Fingered (DVD)

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A waste of celluloid (and your time)

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1 Dec 7th, 2006  (Dec 8th, 2006)

24 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

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It ends .  Eventually .

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Everything else about this vulgar attempt at humour

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director: Tom Green
starring: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan
running time: 87 mins
rating: 18

In one early scene our hero tries to pitch some of his drawings to a Hollywood exec (played by Anthony Michael Hall, one of the film's more competent actors) who explains to him that he can see the characters but there's no plot or jokes and it isn't funny. Unfortunately, he's not so much describing the drawings as the entirety of this waste of celluloid, written by, directed and starring MTV's Tom Green.

The story, in so much as there is one, revolves around Gord [Tom Green], a 28 year old failure who wants to be an animator. He finally moves out of home much to the delight of his dad [Rip Torn] but soon returns after failing to strike it big in Hollywood. The rest is a series of pointless and generally unlinked scenes that revolve around vulgar images and Tom Green pulling stretched faces and meeting his disabled girlfriend [Marisa Coughlan] who manages cheerfully to outperform him at his own senseless game.

This is without doubt the most pathetic insult of a film I have ever sat through. I enjoy a fairly wide variety of humour and can still appreciate the good side to most of the comedies I dislike (see the majority of Adam Sandler's or Ben Stiller's work). Frankly American Pie looks like high-brow storytelling in comparison to this asinine trash where one scene has Freddy jump out of his car to masturbate a horse in a field for no apparent reason. And just count yourself lucky they spared you the six minutes of footage they shot of him sucking milk from a cow.

Writing about it without resorting to a string of expletive-filled insults is almost as much a test of patience as watching the film itself. The only thing that made it bearable is that at least I now know what a zero-star film looks like, although Ciao! forces me to give it at least one. In short this film is about as funny as incestuous child molestation (which, incidentally, it seems to think is hilarious).

VIDEO
1.74:1 anamorphic, reasonable transfer with some noticeable softening of detail but no digital artefacts or other issues.

AUDIO
In some ways the perfect Dolby Digital 5.1 actually serves as a disadvantage as the film is awfully punctuated by a weak rock soundtrack (and I generally enjoy rock). Sound effects tend to be evenly spaced between all 5 satellites with no real care.

EXTRAS
There is one redemptive extra on the disc which is the PG-rated version of the film, removing all the excessive vulgarity and running for a full duration of THREE MINUTES. That's basically the joke and it's the funniest one on this DVD, but if you think that qualifies it for purchase I'd recommend you have a word with your psychiatrist.

The rest includes a fairly banal audio commentary that obviously requires forcing yourself to sit through the entire film again, a twenty-minute MTV Special, 6 deleted scenes, cast and crew info, a soundtrack promo, the theatrical trailer, a promotional featurette and four TV spots. None of which are worth the effort of watching.

Thanks for reading and rating!
PriyanPhoenix
www.meewella.com 

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Chuchy 13.01.2007 01:06

Based on the title, I don't think I was ever at risk of watching this film, but thanks for the warning anyway.

torr 08.12.2006 13:40

Sounds dire - but enjoyably slated by your sharp review. A pity to find a once-excellent actor like Rip Torn reduced to such a role. Duncan

rayns2006 08.12.2006 13:10

Great Review. I saw this film only a few weeks ago and i have to say it was pants....completely agree with you!!

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