Some claim that Freddy Got Fingered is a satire, or at the very least the antithesis, of what was popular comedies were at the time of its release (e.g. gross out comedies, comedies about man-children, slacker comedies, etcetera). I like this idea, and I think it works to an extent, but I'm not so sure. It's certainly possible... but I'm not so sure. What I am sure about is that it's one of the first widely exhibited displays of anti-humor; is it a coincidence that Adult Swim emerged mere months subsequent to the release of this film? I think not. Tom wasn't trying to make a good film, he was trying to make a vapid film for a niche audience…

Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.
I'm X-ray Cat. I've got super powers.
I can see through wooden doors
with my X-ray vision. Wooden doors.
I can see the criminal on the other side.
He can't see me, and he's committing crime.
I come along and say "I can see you. He says
"You can't." I say "Yes, I can with my..."
X-ray...
X-ray Cat.
"You can't get me. You can't get me."
"Yes, I can. Yes, I can."
"Yes, I can. Yes..."
The bananas.
I know a banana who applied for a job
as a telephone repairman.
Guy came and said "You want a job here?"
And he said "Yeah, I wanna get a job."
"You got the job!
You got…

It's hard to talk about film sometimes, because to put it in other words is fundamentally impossible.

Any attempt to discuss art or to explain it is to miss the point, that it must exist in isolation, that there are no other words, because nothing matters as much as the bond between the art and those who experience it.

It's why the brunt of my writing tends to be focused on interpretation and personal experience over technical breakdowns of the movies at hand. Attempting to relate the experience of a movie through text is a futile exercise, and rare is the chance where many people much better equipped than me haven't already offered ample context into how the film was…

Astoundingly distasteful. Astonishingly unfunny. Completely unwatchable.

Every single moment is purposefully crafted to be the most ridiculous, distasteful, unfunny and cliched thing that could possibly be happening on screen at any given time. 

A searing parody of early 2000’s gross out comedies while also servicing as an utterly bizarre meta narrative thats sole purpose is to be a deliberate waste of time. 

The most shocking aspect of ‘Freddie got Fingered’ is not that a major studio actually gave Tom Green $15,000,000 to make it, but that audiences at the time actually thought it was a serious attempt at a conventional comedy, and not an obvious parody mocking the comic sensibilities of that very same audience. Their outrage has since proven…

A big part of whether one likes this film is whether they interpret it as a sincere attempt at humor or as an ironic $15 million shitpost movie. And the way the film is constructed lends itself to both interpretations. While the intent may have been the latter, save for a few sequences, it's entirely possible to sit through this entire film thinking that you are witnessing an honest attempt at being funny. The Wikipedia article for this film describes it as an "experimental surreal black comedy" which still doesn't do justice to the absolute insanity on display here. I think it's fair to say that this was one of the most influential comedies of the early 2000's, as it…