Although I’m not even certain I believe in the term “Guilty Pleasures” as I have no shame when it comes to my tastes and what people think of them…I do indeed have a movie that I love that everyone else hates. Really hate. I’m talking of one Freddy Got Fingered. You heard me right. My best friend and I saw this box-office bomb in the theater when it came out, and both fell in love with it.
Written, directed, and starring one Tom Green, this film is a complete exercise in bad taste, gore, and over-the-top shock humor. The story, as it were, follows Gourd, (Green) as cartoonist who sets off to La-La land to make all his dreams come true. He winds up working in a cheese sandwich factory. Along the way, we the viewer are treated to scene after scene of Tom Green being Tom Green. If you’ve seen his previous work, you’ll know if this movie is for you, if you have not, don’t rent this. A few highlights? Uh…Tom getting very friendly with a variety of animals, including a bull elephant? A wheelchair bound girlfriend heavily into S&M? Tom “helping” a woman give birth? Tom accusing his father of child abuse? A young boy getting constantly, and pointlessly injured?
Yup. It’s all here.
I think what I like the most about this film is how Tom goes all out to make a movie that he wanted to make. Every frame is filled with crazy, dark, perverse craziness. You will most likely hate this….but you may be one of the few who love it.
Oh! and you get to see Rip Torn’s naked ass. ‘Nuff Said.