Freddy Got Fingered
I've heard it claimed that this movie is a Dada Masterpiece but I think that's just mankind groping for answers and seeking deeper meaning in the unknown. Much like primitive man huddling from the elements and imagining the lightning to be spirits or gods, people look at this movie and go "Jesus Christ, maybe its some kind of fucking art, that has to explain it right?".
Well also people being full *glasses push* because obviously you just didn't get it, just like A Serbian Film which is a masterpiece of commentary and people being stabbed to death with dicks.. I'll probably but lets not go all "clown flipping pancakes" on it, Ebert predicted that people would try to peg it as surrealist but that it would never succeed as comedy.
This movie's logic is pretty easy to understand:
- Shock Value is King
- Gross stuff is funny!
- RANDOM!
- Being a slacker and an asshole is cool
- In something that will be as inconceivable to future generations as dead children photos and radium health tonics, there was a weird period where people thought Tom Green was funny and popular.
- RANDOM!
It's all the stuff Tom Green was known for, they cut a check for this exact kind of thing, its not his prank on a studio, let's reduce that Hipsterism by like, 30% , before we start praising my 7th grade math textbook cover doodles as biting social commentary about the military industrial complex.
It's loose randomness, gross out humor and assholery and I've seen that done
way better. There's actually not much to even review here. Yeah Tom Green runs out and starts masturbating a horse for no reason, yeah he swings around a baby by the umbilical cord after ripping it out of a womans womb, yeah he runs around in a deer he skinned randomly flailing his limbs until he's hit by a truck, etc, etc, etc.
I expected to be able to talk more about plot, but its basically a Gen X slacker doing random things for what seems like an eternity because it actually manages to have pacing problems. Yes a movie that's only 87 minutes (with five minutes of credits) long feels approximately six hours long. I'd just be listing off random things and even then it would be repetitive.
"People are sprayed with things and then Tom Green does something random. He mugs a lot, does something random and then people are sprayed with things and people get hurt."
There's a lot of material here but it doesn't really add up to much, much like the movie. Maybe this wasn't a good place to start? I mean, sure it's become some Emperors New Clothes film like A Serbian Film but that one was more of a wild ride because at least there was a plot and people tried to claim deeper meaning out of a two bit Hostel knock off instead of "Its so random and nonsensical, of course its a Dada satire on movies and a prank on the studio".
It also has a guy hold his own dick hostage in a stand off, trust me I've actually seen the movie because of course I have.
I don't know why I keep mentioning it here, but the two just feel so connected and-Shit, I'm going to have to do A Serbian Film.
I'm going to have to do A Serbian Film.
"good dada"