Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5200 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-04-29
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 83 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Freddy Got Fingered, a quite astonishingly tasteless comedy from director-writer-star Tom Green, is especially for those audiences who feel that there's something stuffily restrained and fuddy-duddyish about the Farrelly Brothers and South Park and that Chris Morris treats controversial subjects with a tactfulness that borders on the overly fastidious.

A gawky, goateed 28-year-old who still lives at home, Gordo (Green) wants to be an animator but mostly goofs around in a strangely hysterical manner that goes beyond the expected Jim Carrey style cut-up to become disturbingly like complete dementia. Gordo's main clash is with his tyrannical but also semi-insane father (Rip Torn), but his life also includes a wheelchair-bound girlfriend (Marisa Coughlan) who likes having her paralysed legs caned and a smug younger brother (the Freddy of the title) who lands up in a home for sexually abused kids (they all sit around watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on video) when Gordo casually accuses Dad of child abuse during a family counselling session.

Typical gags include: Green dressed up in a fresh deerskin being hit by a truck; Green masturbating an elephant to spray Torn with a firehose gusher. Guest appearances: the star’s spouse Drew Barrymore (who featured Green in Charlie's Angels), baseball star Shaquille O'Neal, Anthony Michael Hall, Julie Hagerty from Airplane!. It's more horrible than funny, though there is something almost refreshing about its absolute ruthlessness, which is only abandoned in an out-of-place father-son bonding scene near the end. The film also has an interesting 1970s soundtrack, mostly of punk standards that fit the anything-to-irritate-you attitude. --Kim Newman

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Commentary By Tom Green
Audience Laugh Track
6 Deleted Scenes
Easter Egg
Featurette
MTV Special Making Of
Kid Friendly 3 Minute Version Of The Movie
Theatrical Trailer
4 TV Spots
Czech\Danish\English\Finnish\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish

Synopsis
Self-made celebrity and outlaw of gross-out comedy, Tom Green (of MTV's TOM GREEN SHOW) makes the leap to the big screen with the outrageous semi-autobiographical FREDDY GOT FINGERED. Starring as Gord Brody, a slacker fast-approaching 30, yet still living in his father's basement, Green is his usual obtusely hilarious, polymorphously perverse self. Physical comedy ascends to the realm of extreme performance art as Brody's unachievable lifelong dream to become an animator causes him to clash with his hardened father (played by the steely and equally funny Rip Torn.) A furtive love affair with a wheelchair-bound rocket scientist and the disturbing hijinks of a troublesome younger brother named Freddy form the core of the sublimely stupid plot that serves mainly as a platform from which Green launches his incredible and often irrational comedic fare. Testing the limits of comedy, Green's deceptively moronic film does, at times, achieve a level of visual and conceptual cleverness, crafting ironic and primordial images from jokes on human folly.

Customer Reviews

tastelessness to be enjoyed for that very reason.
I saw Freddy Got Fingered for the first time with my then boyfriend. When he rented the DVD I was fully aware that this film was not exactly going to be tasteful (I mean, the title kind of gives that one away) and maybe that's why I appreciated it more than other reviewers on here, as I was expecting tastelessness.

I have to say, the elephant/horse jokes and the umbilical cord scenes are not my favourites in the film - my female friend feels the same way, whereas most of my male friends find it hilarious. However, there is still humour aside from those more obvious images. My favourite scene is when Gord wears a suit. Backwards. Green's sausage song, the unluckiest kid in the world, Drew Barrymore's cameo and some extremely quotable lines... all these contribute to the awesome and nonsensical world that is Freddy Got Fingered.

However. It isn't the kind of film you want to watch if you have a headache, Green opting to shout rather than talk for a lot of the film. Nor is it the kind of film you'd watch in front of parents or prudes. And if you have a dislike for crude and lewd humour involving animals, sexual acts or the combination thereof, then I think you need to steer clear of this film - especially if you like your films to at least have a real plot. If Tom Green isn't your cup of tea generally, and you find South Park tasteless, you will be repulsed by this film.

If they are, however, chances are you'll love the way the film revels in trying to disturb its audience.

Daddy Would You Like Some Sausage?
This truly is a masterpiece of modern comedy. It is hard to find superlatives to do it justice. How Green hasn't received a Noble Prize is beyond me. This film has given me years of hilarity and it keeps getting better. Buy without hesitation. All hail Thomas Green

What a load of......
Don't get me wrong, I really do like Tom Green. I have his MTV TV show series 1 and 2 on DVD and they far surpass this utter rubbish. I expected Tom to be at his best but the sponteneity which makes him funny is completely removed by this film. Yes, there are a couple of moments which may prompt a small smile but the plot and acting are both appauling. If you want Tom Green then buy "tonsil hockey". Also, the gags in the film are basically unfunny repeats of the TV show.