A year later, Tom Green was in Stealing Harvard, right? When Roger Ebert reviewed Stealing Harvard he something like "as harsh as I was about Freddy Got Fingered, a year later I still remember it and I still will a year from now." He said this basically to say SH was a shit film you'll forget 10min after you leave the theater... BUT... Ebert def understood what FGF was and his written review said something like FGF could some day be a celebrated piece of neo-surrealism but that won't happen as long as people laugh at the SPOKEN jokes without realizing that FGF was Tom Green literally SHITTING on the industry that didn't understand him with plans to exploit him. I tend to think 50% of FGF's "genius" was Tom Green's joke on the industry but the other 50% was applied after the fact from people outside of it. **Genius being used VERY loosely here lol**
He stated on the Joe Rogan podcast that they gave him about 20 million Canadian to go make a movie. He stated he wanted to make the most outrageously stupid film conceivable and it's now a classic. Legend.
My ex-wife and I watched Freddy Got Fingered on DVD. After it was over, we just stared for a moment, and then she turned to me and said, "Well, I'll give it this. I was never bored." I think that sums it up.
@@ARedMotorcycle Firefighters are still dying from 9/11-related diseases. A lot of us in New York are still very conscious of it, you insensitive ass. I'm not one of those PC types with a stick up his ass about jokes. I think you should be able to joke about 9/11, and everything else. But don't you tell me that it's "just 20 years ago" when there's still real tragedy and pain.
What's funny is Ebert eventually developed a begrudging respect for the movie: "But the thing is, I remember "Freddy Got Fingered" more than a year later. I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something. It failed, but it has not left me convinced that Tom Green doesn't have good work in him. Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing."
@david gallagher Well, Birth of a Nation practically invented film grammar as we know it today, so regardless of its content it remains a very important film.
3:07 - "Even in a stupid comedy, there has to be set-ups before the punchline" Anthony Michael Hall's character says almost that exact thing in the movie. "What you need is elevation, something has to actually happen that's funny". God, I laugh my ass off every time I watch it.
@seanlaffey3633 Yeah, but just pointing out the flaws in your movie doesn't excuse the flaws. I've warmed to this movie considerably in my old age BTW.
Agreed. Not everything has to be heady and cerebral or uber-dramatic to be good. Some things can just be dadaist and fun. Freddy is one of those things. A classic. It's not just dick jokes and toilet humor, contrary to what the critics would want you to believe. Beats the hell out of the other toilet humor stuff.
What's hilarious is how self aware the film is...like at the end at the airport a sign says "is this fucking movie over yet?" Tom green 100% made this to waste the money of the studio and see how far he could take everything...like during the moving the house to Pakistan"here's my last $700,000, easy come easy go" lol
Roger Ebert admitted later that the movie was still on his mind. I wonder if the self-aware aspects are what he was reflecting on when he brought it up again.
Never got Tom Green.... Just seemed like a class clown asshole who connived his way into a flash in the pan career. I guess it is funny how he swindled a studio into wasting money on this tripe.
'Strange Wilderness' pushes the envelope in that aspect as well. I remember after it ended thinking to myself "I haven't watched anything that obscurely hilarious since FGF"
Love how Ebert comes SO CLOSE to getting it with the the Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler references, but misses the fact that the movie is ALSO mocking those guys by stretching their formulaic manchild/grossout comedy to its logical extreme.
Tom Green has already admitted this on the commentary track on the DVD. The New York times mentioned this in they're review too. That DVD is old as dirt and predates Mike's claims. I have no clue why mike and jay didnt juat tell people to listen to the commentary. Tom green literally calls out the critics for also not giving him credit on not using potty humor. He also says that the fact he was satarizing adam sandler movies and shit like dude heres my car, few over they're heads .
I remember thinking as a small child "This is just Pet Detective but worse I don't wanna watch this" but now I think that's the funniest comparison for 7 year old me to make.
It’s legitimately funny the way he says it. It’s exactly the way everyone felt about Tom Green. The only laughs I got from this movie came from rip torn beating him up for acting R word lol
Perfect take on the absurdity of Hollywood culture and the movie-making process. This movie is even better in light of the current re-re-re-re-make phase that Hollywood is in.
Yeah. The main reason I see people are offended by this movie, is bc they genuinely like dumb romantic comedies that this movie is making fun of. Of course this movie is funny. It represents the teenager in all of us, who thinks about not taking life/society seriously.
This movie flies over a lot of people's heads. Tom literally tried to make the worst movie ever created and also did it to mock other films. I think it is great. I laughed at more scenes in this movie than I have at most comedies.
oh shut up with your excuses. He tried to make a movie and it was funny but a bomb. Dont try to go back and cover for him now with your little excuses. " oh he literally tried to make the worst film" blah blah blah. Youre not ironic at all, lacky.
yea evident by the time the end of the movie comes and they're coming off the airplane and people have signs that say "welcome home" and stuff and there's one sign that says "when's this fucking movie going to end?". At least it's self aware.
Starting at 0:49, you could see the displeasure on Roeper’s face as he was introducing himself and setting up the description of the movie’s plot. You _knew_ he was eager to rip it to shreds lol.
No it wouldn’t. There’s this misconception in this comments section that “Freddy got Fingered” isn’t an obviously bad movie no matter what angle one takes.
3:04 Hit the nail right on the head. Tom Green didn't want to make a movie, execs pushed him into it. So he made sure no one in hollywood would ever ask him to do one again.
"We will always have Paris," and "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn," and "The Force be with you," are the most unforgettable movies lines in history. Now we add a fourth, "Get out of that toilet!" to movie history.
Before Tom Green, pranks were boomer-tier "Candid Camera" NBC primetime jokes. After Tom Green, a prank could result in a poingant critique of modern society, culture and politics: The results of which, represented a dramatic expose of an individuals understanding of self and others. Additionally, prank results, now, could function as a litmus test for how the public perceives, and responds to - moral, existential and philosophical dilemmas. Tom Green is like the _boots on the ground_ version of Norm Macdonald. I'd say Tom Green and Norm Macdonald are to comedy as Nietzsche and Freud are to psychology.
I got a free VHS copy of this movie back when I was in high school working for The Orlando Sentinel as a "trend spotter" and as a music correspondent, meaning I wrote CD reviews, and I have loved it ever since
3:30 The best part of this review is that he’s talking about the funniest scene in the whole movie. The joke isn’t on the woman, it’s at the situation. You’re supposed to feel sad and sick in the lead-up to it. Every bit of you is supposed to say “No, Gorb, get the hell away from that woman, you monster!” Then he delivers the baby, and it doesn’t cry. You’re supposed to think it’s dead, and you’re supposed to think, “oh no, the movie went there. They actually went that low.” Then it gets absolutely insane. Gorb bites the umbilical cord with his bear teeth, swings it around by the umbilical cord like a rag doll, and it’s the most batshit thing you’ve ever witnessed, with the women in the opposite beds chanting and playing the tambourines as the room gets increasingly splattered with blood. The mother is screaming in pure terror as Tom Green is repeating a chant in a childlike voice of “I can wake it up! I can wake it up!” It’s so horrific, yet so absurd that you can’t help but laugh. It tickles the fear and comedy sides of your brain at the same time, and it’s so masterfully crafted. The cherry on top? The baby starts crying, it’s actually alive, and totally fine, and INSTANTLY, it’s this wholesome scene, the music is INSTANTLY sentimental, and he just hands the baby over and the mother is okay with it, smiling, and it’s the “beautiful” moment with the music and the smiles, and everyone ignoring the horrific absurdity that just occurred, blood on the walls and everything. It’s a brilliant scene in a movie that is meant to hold a mirror to Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey’s worst roles. That is the whole point. The nonsensical gross-out horse scene that was not set up to at all near the beginning and the fact that there’s an Easter egg where an extra can be seen flipping off the camera should have tipped Ebert off to what this movie is.
“The most critically reviled movie in the history of cinema - But you cheer...you cheer when I say “daddy would you like some sausage”...that makes a lot of sense, right?” ~Tom Green
@@vrfvfdcdvgtre2369 You have a point. Fast food is grueling, tiring and soul crushing work. Definitely a more honest profession than watching movies for a living and then talking about them like these two.
That was a time,where a film like that could exist,now it's over,don't even think about laughing about stuff like that,and just for that the film has merit,now you can't even say "retarded" on TV,this film was bizarrely ahead of it's time.
The movie was an instant classic and up there with the greatest of all time on release,for those of us that "got it" it's took over 20 years but it's finally starting to get it's well deserved recognition
From Ebert's written review of Freddy got Fingered "The day may come when "Freddy Got Fingered" is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny."
3:02 makes me laugh so hard because as bad as this movie is, it kinda predicted modern meme culture and gross out humor. When I saw it, yeah I was shocked by they’re describing it like it’s A Serbian Film 😂 what a bunch of pansies.
This movie was an indictment of middle of the road Hollywood movies. Green takes any number of Hollywood cliches and leans so deeply into them that their shallowness and absurdity is revealled for what it is. It's like watching a Matthew McConoughy romcom with the glasses from They Live on. He's a genius, and a good man. God bless you Tom.
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Hearing Ebert say retard made me laugh way harder than it should have
Funnier than the movie lol.
I know hahahaha
this movie is secret genius. This is the reaction he was going for. @@Kevon420
I litteraly gasped.
i literally had to rewind it
"Tom Green wants to be an animator but he keeps getting hired to make cheese sandwiches"
Story of my life
This is going to make me laugh for a whole week
It was hilarious.
Story of Hollywood animators soon.
I guarantee that this review was everything Tom Green hoped it would be.
A year later, Tom Green was in Stealing Harvard, right? When Roger Ebert reviewed Stealing Harvard he something like "as harsh as I was about Freddy Got Fingered, a year later I still remember it and I still will a year from now." He said this basically to say SH was a shit film you'll forget 10min after you leave the theater...
BUT... Ebert def understood what FGF was and his written review said something like FGF could some day be a celebrated piece of neo-surrealism but that won't happen as long as people laugh at the SPOKEN jokes without realizing that FGF was Tom Green literally SHITTING on the industry that didn't understand him with plans to exploit him.
I tend to think 50% of FGF's "genius" was Tom Green's joke on the industry but the other 50% was applied after the fact from people outside of it.
**Genius being used VERY loosely here lol**
He stated on the Joe Rogan podcast that they gave him about 20 million Canadian to go make a movie. He stated he wanted to make the most outrageously stupid film conceivable and it's now a classic. Legend.
I laughed, I confess, to both the tasteless movie and the critics` rage. They both seem infantile to me.
FGF was a steaming pile of trash. I Can’t believe some comments are defending it.
I thought Eager & Roper were just 2 Muppet skit characters that they quoted for hype factor until I seen this video & see they are sorta real people
My ex-wife and I watched Freddy Got Fingered on DVD. After it was over, we just stared for a moment, and then she turned to me and said, "Well, I'll give it this. I was never bored." I think that sums it up.
Was she referring to the film or your marriage?
I liked how the restaurant was called Fancy Restaurant
Goddamn 😭
thats why youre divorced
Rip Torn’s performance is
legendary in this “pioneering achievement of cinema”.
"If this were Pakistan, you'd be sewing soccer balls when you were five years old..."
I liked Torn's delivery every time he'd unnecessarily say "What the fuck is this?" Or "Goddammed"
Brilliant delivery of the F-word every time.
I think Jim Brody is more funny than Patches O'Hoolaran.
He's so damn funny
Should of won an Oscar
I bet he wouldn’t say ground zero like that a couple months later
Ground chemo.
You could say this movie was the second worst thing to happen in 2001.
@ukpkmkk i like how all it took was for blade runner to say "Too soon" to trigger you going on this full blown rant
@Blade Runner
How much time needs to pass, you wussy? It's been nearly 20 years. Nobody cares about your fake sympathy.
@@ARedMotorcycle Firefighters are still dying from 9/11-related diseases. A lot of us in New York are still very conscious of it, you insensitive ass.
I'm not one of those PC types with a stick up his ass about jokes. I think you should be able to joke about 9/11, and everything else. But don't you tell me that it's "just 20 years ago" when there's still real tragedy and pain.
What's funny is Ebert eventually developed a begrudging respect for the movie: "But the thing is, I remember "Freddy Got Fingered" more than a year later. I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something. It failed, but it has not left me convinced that Tom Green doesn't have good work in him. Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing."
It's better that your film is remembered (even for bad reasons) than forgotten...
@david gallagher Well, Birth of a Nation practically invented film grammar as we know it today, so regardless of its content it remains a very important film.
Yeah he backtracked often. Here he sounds like a Karen
Looking back on this review in 2023, Freddy got fingered has aged better than throwing around the word retard.
High praise indeed.
a review like this IS the punchline of the whole movie
Exactly
Very well said.
"....we can't show you the scene where: green swings a newborn baby around his head by it's umbilical cord." 🤣
🤣
If I was old enough to see this movie in 2001, that sentence alone would’ve made me want to see it more.
I'LL WAKE UP THE BABY!!
@@Elrond_Hubbard_1BAAABYYYY
The "daddy would you like some sausages" scene made me laugh so hard.
HE'S A REAL CHARACTER
HE'S A REAL CHARACTER
Ebert calling Tom Green an obnoxious retard then showing the sausage scene is peak cinema
3:07 - "Even in a stupid comedy, there has to be set-ups before the punchline"
Anthony Michael Hall's character says almost that exact thing in the movie. "What you need is elevation, something has to actually happen that's funny".
God, I laugh my ass off every time I watch it.
Did Ebert just miss that part?
"...What. The Fuck. Is Happening here!?"
@seanlaffey3633 Yeah, but just pointing out the flaws in your movie doesn't excuse the flaws. I've warmed to this movie considerably in my old age BTW.
I thought of that scene as well! It’s almost serendipitous that Ebert brings that up in this review 😂
The set up is the movie and the punch line is this review.
... but he keeps getting hired to make cheese sandwiches.
He worked at like three cheese sandwich places 😂 just cheese and bread
This was basically the perfect movie when I was a teenager and this reaction makes me love it even more
When I first saw this movie I was crying and my sides hurt I was laughing so hard.
Agreed. Not everything has to be heady and cerebral or uber-dramatic to be good. Some things can just be dadaist and fun. Freddy is one of those things. A classic. It's not just dick jokes and toilet humor, contrary to what the critics would want you to believe. Beats the hell out of the other toilet humor stuff.
@@dickeymckay8289
I love Freddy Got Fingered... that being said, describing it as Dada is not only just wrong, it's pretentious and kind of sad
Me too tbh
ME TOO!!!!
I still cry laughing. This movie is a TREASURE.
What's hilarious is how self aware the film is...like at the end at the airport a sign says "is this fucking movie over yet?" Tom green 100% made this to waste the money of the studio and see how far he could take everything...like during the moving the house to Pakistan"here's my last $700,000, easy come easy go" lol
Roger Ebert admitted later that the movie was still on his mind. I wonder if the self-aware aspects are what he was reflecting on when he brought it up again.
Never got Tom Green.... Just seemed like a class clown asshole who connived his way into a flash in the pan career. I guess it is funny how he swindled a studio into wasting money on this tripe.
the movie is about making the movie. this wouldnt be tried again until The Unberable Weight of Massive Talent
'Strange Wilderness' pushes the envelope in that aspect as well. I remember after it ended thinking to myself "I haven't watched anything that obscurely hilarious since FGF"
"I'm not really a cop!" Is one of my most favorite lines
And he is dressed in a British police uniform 😂
JAPAN 4!!!!!
So did they like it?
NO! Roger gave it zero stars, okay?
sha11235 calm down
Did you even watch the whole video?!
@sha11235
You're a real tight ass, aren't you?
@andrew
Whooooosh.
Love how Ebert comes SO CLOSE to getting it with the the Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler references, but misses the fact that the movie is ALSO mocking those guys by stretching their formulaic manchild/grossout comedy to its logical extreme.
That was speculation on Red Letter Media's part, but there's no conclusive evidence that that's the case.
@@SimBol1216 I’ve never seen RLM, it’s extremely obvious just from watching the movie lol
Tom Green has already admitted this on the commentary track on the DVD. The New York times mentioned this in they're review too. That DVD is old as dirt and predates Mike's claims. I have no clue why mike and jay didnt juat tell people to listen to the commentary. Tom green literally calls out the critics for also not giving him credit on not using potty humor. He also says that the fact he was satarizing adam sandler movies and shit like dude heres my car, few over they're heads .
I remember thinking as a small child "This is just Pet Detective but worse I don't wanna watch this" but now I think that's the funniest comparison for 7 year old me to make.
I don't think Green is quite smart enough to do that.
I'm laughing my ass off at all the negative stuff they say about this film. It makes me love the film even more 😂
Freddy Got Fingered is sacred.
Ebert with a big 2001’er at 1:16 🤣
You know this is old footage when Ebert was openly able to use the R word 😂😂😂
He used it too on Nicholas Cage’s performance in Kiss of Death from 1995
It’s legitimately funny the way he says it. It’s exactly the way everyone felt about Tom Green. The only laughs I got from this movie came from rip torn beating him up for acting R word lol
@@reneperez7903 LMAO thanks for sharing
@@mackereltacos2850 what’s so funny about it lol
@@reneperez7903 haha its just funny. i love nic cage, and that movie is a bit goofy
Daddy would you like some sausage?
I genuinely - non-ironically - enjoyed this film and have watched it many times
Same here. It's one of my all-time favorites!
Perfect take on the absurdity of Hollywood culture and the movie-making process. This movie is even better in light of the current re-re-re-re-make phase that Hollywood is in.
Yeah. The main reason I see people are offended by this movie, is bc they genuinely like dumb romantic comedies that this movie is making fun of.
Of course this movie is funny. It represents the teenager in all of us, who thinks about not taking life/society seriously.
This review only makes me love this beautifully filthy movie all the more.
I’m sorry
Its sorta like Postal 2 "the pc game?" Its just as bad, if not worse, and i fuckin adore it!
Make your daddy proud
this movie was probably the only movie to physically drop my jaw on multiple parts of the movie.
Much like Ebert himself.
Their review and criticisms are totally accurate.
Perfect movie.
I think the joke is on these guys
You're just way too far ahead of them.
Good luck with your own film critic franchise; I'm sure it will make Roger Ebert's look like crap....
@@maskedmarvyl4774 Roger was always too opinionated to really 'get' the whole picture sometimes. It's a valid criticism.
MaskedMarvyl got fingered. Did not preciate it.
@QUAD_RETURNS ,
hug.
You seemed like you could use one.
@@maskedmarvyl4774 you just love telling people you're a loser don't you?
Ebert: here’s why this wasn’t funny (proceeds to explain something hilarious)
The fact that he says he should be flipping burgers shows the movie went over their heads
Exactly
Out of touch
He should be making cheese sandwiches. At the cheese sandwich factory.
@@gmr3156 exactly
I WANNA EAT CHICKEN BURGERS
1:12 that’s the best introduction of the main character I have ever heard in any review. 😂
Lmfao even pc culture would be like “yeah that’s exactly right” lmao
EBERT SAID THE R WORD! HE SHOULD BE CANCELLED!!! well, i guess he JUST grew up in a different time! Roflmao
This movie flies over a lot of people's heads. Tom literally tried to make the worst movie ever created and also did it to mock other films. I think it is great. I laughed at more scenes in this movie than I have at most comedies.
oh shut up with your excuses. He tried to make a movie and it was funny but a bomb. Dont try to go back and cover for him now with your little excuses. " oh he literally tried to make the worst film" blah blah blah. Youre not ironic at all, lacky.
@@blackleague212 But that's literally what Tom Green tried to do. He intentionally made a film to disgust and shock audiences and critics.
Oh, you're so intelligent that you can appreciate Freddy Got Fingered on a deeper level than everyone else.
@Nathan-gd7xq Tom Green was genuinely ahead of his time. I'll let you decide whether I mean that in a good way or a bad way.
@@Nathan-gd7xqYes, actually
This movie is like an endurance test.
Yeah… you and group of friends, on acid
Yeah. How much you can laugh before you pass out lol
For how much absurdist comedy a boring person can take without craving something easy and cliched
yea evident by the time the end of the movie comes and they're coming off the airplane and people have signs that say "welcome home" and stuff and there's one sign that says "when's this fucking movie going to end?". At least it's self aware.
It’s even funnier hearing someone recount the events of the movie in such a straight delivery lol.
"he keeps saying he saved the day" LOOKS LIKE THEY GOT A PROBLEM WITH HEROS AROUND HERE
You can eat that roast beef or you can go to bed.
Aww, little lord Fauntleroy's tummy hurts, because it's got too much roast beef in it.
Roger said the R word... hahaha
Pulitzer winner everyone
@@matthewpaul6904 it's a "Your Moms House" podcast reference smart ass
William Blake it seems like he was talking about Roger Ebert being a Pulitzer winner, which seems like a pretty funny thing to point out
Did not age well
Glad everyone here isn't Tic-Tocked.
Matthew was just trying to follow proto.
This is one of their funniest reviews imo. Thank you a ton for uploading it
“Ground zero of bad comedy”. Couldn’t have said it better
I guess I’m sad and sick because i find this movie to be endlessly hilarious.
Starting at 0:49, you could see the displeasure on Roeper’s face as he was introducing himself and setting up the description of the movie’s plot. You _knew_ he was eager to rip it to shreds lol.
I almost see it
If this movie came out today, it would've been considered a classic.
This film would in no way shape or form, be made today.
And it would be #1 on Netflix
The second the audience heard words like r*tard, f*ggot, and other gamer words, it would've gotten everyone black listed from Hollywood so fast...
No it wouldn’t. There’s this misconception in this comments section that “Freddy got Fingered” isn’t an obviously bad movie no matter what angle one takes.
This is a classic, it's what's referred to as "cult classic."
3:04 Hit the nail right on the head. Tom Green didn't want to make a movie, execs pushed him into it. So he made sure no one in hollywood would ever ask him to do one again.
Not a single mention of X-ray Cat?
Or the job as a telephone repair guy....YOU GOT THE JOB, YOU GOT THE JOB BUDDY!
@@darrenwestlow7809 AND THEN THE BEAVERS
Seriously, he can see through wooden doors!
No mention of the Backwards Man, either.
@@hunterwest3952 YOU STUPID BEAVER
The finest comedy of the 21st century
No, that's This is the End, though it did fail to get an NC17 rating.
Probably the Worst Movie Ever of 2001.
Still got 76 years left before you can say that.
Unless you're a time traveller?
It’s a masterpiece.
This movie becomes something great when you realize it is deliberate satire of the gross-out teen movie genre that was so popular at the time.
"We will always have Paris," and "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn," and "The Force be with you," are the most unforgettable movies lines in history. Now we add a fourth, "Get out of that toilet!" to movie history.
No lie I laughed out loud and repeated it awesome
even just having them describe scenes from this film I love so much made me laugh
The did not even see it.
I had a million dollars and now it’s gone. Easy come, easy go.
3:01 I think this is literally exactly what Tom wanted people to say
And now Ebert is dead. Score 1 for Tom
Greens humor is more modern and approachable now than Adam Sandler
These guys really know how to make a person want to watch a movie. I loved it by the way.
I haven't gotten to watch their review of Freddy Got Fingered since 2010. Finally the video is back!
I’ve felt the same with certain reviews uploaded this year and last year, there should be more. I want the ones from 2004-2006
Before Tom Green, pranks were boomer-tier "Candid Camera" NBC primetime jokes. After Tom Green, a prank could result in a poingant critique of modern society, culture and politics: The results of which, represented a dramatic expose of an individuals understanding of self and others. Additionally, prank results, now, could function as a litmus test for how the public perceives, and responds to - moral, existential and philosophical dilemmas.
Tom Green is like the _boots on the ground_ version of Norm Macdonald.
I'd say Tom Green and Norm Macdonald are to comedy as Nietzsche and Freud are to psychology.
I loved it. When I first saw the trailer I thought it looked angeringly stupid, but when I saw it I couldn't stop laughing.
Brings me back. My friend and I laughed at the insanity innthe theatre waat back!! "Daddy would you like some sausage"
“Who wants to see this guy?”
You would be surprised
You actually wouldn’t be because when people describe something as being sick and bad taste, it piques people’s interest.
Said NO ONE! >=[
The baby scene is legitimately my favourite in the whole movie, it's hysterical
Agreed!
Ebert seems to have a problem with heroes.
People obviously can have differing opinions but they explain there opinions so thoroughly that its insane how disrespectful people are about it
The movie has so much screaming...it's hilarious
Cheese sandwich factory
DING DONG!!! DING DONG!!!
I got a free VHS copy of this movie back when I was in high school working for The Orlando Sentinel as a "trend spotter" and as a music correspondent, meaning I wrote CD reviews, and I have loved it ever since
3:30 The best part of this review is that he’s talking about the funniest scene in the whole movie.
The joke isn’t on the woman, it’s at the situation. You’re supposed to feel sad and sick in the lead-up to it. Every bit of you is supposed to say “No, Gorb, get the hell away from that woman, you monster!” Then he delivers the baby, and it doesn’t cry. You’re supposed to think it’s dead, and you’re supposed to think, “oh no, the movie went there. They actually went that low.”
Then it gets absolutely insane.
Gorb bites the umbilical cord with his bear teeth, swings it around by the umbilical cord like a rag doll, and it’s the most batshit thing you’ve ever witnessed, with the women in the opposite beds chanting and playing the tambourines as the room gets increasingly splattered with blood. The mother is screaming in pure terror as Tom Green is repeating a chant in a childlike voice of “I can wake it up! I can wake it up!”
It’s so horrific, yet so absurd that you can’t help but laugh. It tickles the fear and comedy sides of your brain at the same time, and it’s so masterfully crafted.
The cherry on top? The baby starts crying, it’s actually alive, and totally fine, and INSTANTLY, it’s this wholesome scene, the music is INSTANTLY sentimental, and he just hands the baby over and the mother is okay with it, smiling, and it’s the “beautiful” moment with the music and the smiles, and everyone ignoring the horrific absurdity that just occurred, blood on the walls and everything.
It’s a brilliant scene in a movie that is meant to hold a mirror to Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey’s worst roles. That is the whole point. The nonsensical gross-out horse scene that was not set up to at all near the beginning and the fact that there’s an Easter egg where an extra can be seen flipping off the camera should have tipped Ebert off to what this movie is.
the scene in the half-pipe with the skateboard had me in stitches, was not expecting it.
“The most critically reviled movie in the history of cinema - But you cheer...you cheer when I say “daddy would you like some sausage”...that makes a lot of sense, right?” ~Tom Green
"He's such an unfunny guy, who wants to see this guy?" We didn't say "OK, Boomer back then, but this would be the perfect time to say it.
To be fair.... This is probably the reaction that Tom Green was after
This is perhaps one of rhe greatest comedies ever made.
3:00 the fact he said he should be flipping burgers rather than "making cheese sandwiches" tells me all I need to know about this goof
The goof is mocking an honest job, "flipping burgers" is a tired phrase for a critic.
@@vrfvfdcdvgtre2369 You have a point. Fast food is grueling, tiring and soul crushing work. Definitely a more honest profession than watching movies for a living and then talking about them like these two.
@@rawkguy4896 If Roeper flipped burgers, he'd have been fired midway through his 1st shift.
2001 was peak cinema magic
We used to watch this back in the day and laugh hysterically at every scene, it’s bad, but it’s good too
I recently rewatched this on the Criterion Channel 😂
"Ground zero of bad comedies"
That should be on the cover.
That was a time,where a film like that could exist,now it's over,don't even think about laughing about stuff like that,and just for that the film has merit,now you can't even say "retarded" on TV,this film was bizarrely ahead of it's time.
One of the funniest movies of all time .
With Tom green making David spade look like Jim Carrey and Jim Carrey look like Laurence Olivier😂
daddy would you like some sausage?
daddy would you like some sausages?!?!?
This movie is one of the best comedy movies of all time
1:16 I never realised Ebert was a gamer.
calling the movie *ground zero* in 2001 is too soon
This was just a few months before 9/11
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 too soon, man
Look at me daddy I’m a farmer!
It's so bad it's good.
The movie was an instant classic and up there with the greatest of all time on release,for those of us that "got it" it's took over 20 years but it's finally starting to get it's well deserved recognition
I think Tom Green"s performance was hillarious 😂 It was random, chaotic, and insane.
Roger Ebert also said _Home Alone 3_ is, "Better than the first two!"
Roger would you like some sausage? Roger would you like some sausages. 🎶
Roeper?
Can you imagine how badly Gene Siskel would have eviscerated this movie?
Thank you been looking for this review forever
By today's movie/web series standards it is an avant garde classic.
Fantastic movie
I agree with every critism he has for this movie... And yet I still love this movie
From Ebert's written review of Freddy got Fingered "The day may come when "Freddy Got Fingered" is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny."
3:02 makes me laugh so hard because as bad as this movie is, it kinda predicted modern meme culture and gross out humor. When I saw it, yeah I was shocked by they’re describing it like it’s A Serbian Film 😂 what a bunch of pansies.
This movie was an indictment of middle of the road Hollywood movies. Green takes any number of Hollywood cliches and leans so deeply into them that their shallowness and absurdity is revealled for what it is. It's like watching a Matthew McConoughy romcom with the glasses from They Live on. He's a genius, and a good man. God bless you Tom.
I still proudly watch FGF. Boomers got their pearls gripped pretty tight back then
I love that this is EXACTLY the type of reviews Tom was hoping for lol..
1:16 ah hahahaha!
Lol its like he was pissed he had to endure watching it completely
Bort Flong it’s magnificent, I laughed my ass off for a good 15 minutes. 😂
Just spat on my phone lmao. Damn 2001 was different or Roger just had enough
What are you guys talking about? I laughed my ass off!!!
I love this movie and laugh every time I watch it. But I understand that people either love it or hate it.