Freddy Got Fingered - re:View
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- Mike and Jay discuss the much-hated Tom Green vehicle Freddy Got Fingered. And no, they don't talk about the "Daddy Would You Like Some Sausage" song. You've already heard everyone that has ever mentioned this movie talk about the "Daddy Would You Like Some Sausage" song.
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Fun fact, Freddy Got Fingered won 5 Razzy awards and Tom Green himself arrived at the event in a white cadillac, rolled out his own red carpet, received the awards in person and got to be dragged out of the stage because he wouldn't stop playing the harmonica.
He even said:
"When we set out to make this film we wanted to win a Razzie, so this is a dream come true for me," he said.
In all, Green picked up awards for worst director, worst actor, worst screenplay, worst on-screen couple and worst film.
Ryan - You're an idiot. Go back to PewDiePie's channel.
PsychoBoyJack if the shining can get a razzy...
Is this true? I really hope this is true.
trust me, it is
kiy
Mike has become so cynical about movies that he has come full circle and recognizes Freddy Got Fingered as a cinema masterpiece. Incredible.
compared to the marvel cinematic shithole, he's not wrong.
The heroes journey is complete.
Mike's story arc was my favorite in the RLM anime.
I tend to measure movies in terms of enjoyment, and this movie made me want to tear out my eyeballs. So to me it's a dumpster fire but if other people got enjoyment out of it then good for them.
Agreed! Mike aint got a clue... Tom Green was masterful at making people like Mike look stupid :)
There's a fine line between stupid and clever and Tom Green uses that line as a jumprope
Well said.
Nice spinal tap reference
I think that's the point. If it was TOO clever, it would invalidate the character of Tom Green
I think you mean gnaw on it like an umbilical cord.
Yes. Bjork made a song with Mike Patton about it.
I met Tom Green when he came and did a visit to my improv team at my old High School. After he did some workshopping and such we got to talk to him afterwards. I asked him what prompted him to make Freddy Got Fingered. He looked me in my eyes. Gave me a little smirk. Patted me on the shoulder like a father would to his son. And chuckled. That was it.
Was he proud?
Holy shit
@@steelydanlover1972 proud?
I think what he meant to say was, " um, I'm being creative. "
@@scarredpuppets6032 no
My favourite Red Letter Media-ism is when they tell a really bad joke and then immediately look sad about it
''I don't think Tom Green is clever. - Director of Space Cop
Not only sad, but the kind of regret you get when forced to do something you know is wrong.
RLM is a 15-yr commentary on middle-aged Gen-Xer disillusionment and depression masquerading as an amateur movie review franchise.
Like they are being forced to add shlock by their corporate overlord: Rich Evans
@@DJosAmmel it's a masterpiece
I somehow convinced my dad to take me and my friend to see this movie when we were 13. When we went into the theater, there were 12 people. When we left at the end, there were 6
A friend and I rented this movie on video when I think we were 14/15ish. We had the video downstairs in the vcr but connected so we could watch it upstairs as well. At a certain point my father hears us howling and puts the channel downstairs on the VCR as well to see what we were looking at.
It was the baby scene lol. He was howling right along with us he told me afterwards.
I just needed to say how much your 8bit remixes mean to me. I loved tuning in and seeing that you had uploaded another one. Genuinely made my childhood and young teen years happy.
@@ThisUsernameSystemF-ckingSucks thank you :)
I went to see this with my older sister and right after the horse jerk off scene she left and so did a bunch of other people, and that's when I knew it was gonna be the best movie of the year.
What did your dad think of the movie?
"You're not taking that bus to Los Angeles!"
"You bought me a ticket on this bus to Los Angeles"
the dialogue in this movie is the funniest part
those two lines make me laugh so hard
@@kyro8559 I don't get why that part is funny?
@@ilck-ym-blals7385 the delivery and the weird ass repetition of the same line nearly the same way is so fucking funny to me
@@kyro8559 comedy through repetition is an actual style of humor. Intentionally breaking the ''3 times joke" rule.
The delivery is what REALLY sells it
“ get the fuck out of the way” was not rehearsed. The extra missed there mark and that moment happened on accident. It is easily the funniest part of the movie .
Where did you hear that?
It’s in the commentary
@@bizichyld Thanks!
"I'll make you proud daddy, proud. GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!!"
by accident, no one does things on accident because then it wouldn't be an accident
Tom Green: Master of Real-Life Shitposting, was given 14 million US dollars by Hollywood to make a 93 minute shitpost.
What a legend.
not... really
@@Uhohlisa Yes, really.
Well he is Canadian after all.
Similar with Steve Oedekirk and Kung Pow where he was given 10 million to make effectively a feature length YTP.
@@ichiban1336 I would more compare it to an abridged series/comedy redub.
Kung POW is basically the ghost stories dub of king fu movies
Disney owns Fox now
*Freddy Got Fingered is technically a Disney movie*
Wait, so is blowjob girl a Disney princess?
Freddy Got Frozen
It was pretty weird when Gord came through that portal in the climax of Endgame
I smell a reboot coming
Does that make Tom Green a Disney princess?
Congratulations Mike your 9/11 joke made it into the IMDB trivia page for this movie.
Mary Dietrich i checked. you are correct :/
@@gameworkerty Wake up America
CONFIRMED!
You’re welcome
damn, today is coincidentally 9/11. and i live in NYC
For those who don't know, Tom Green has seen this video and has said it felt vindicating to watch mike and jay talk about it
YES! THANK YOU! I’VE BEEN WONDERING THIS
Is that true?? Is there a video or tweet or something?
Source or it didn't happen
I need to believe this
@@pasteghost428 turns out it's true, he spoke about it on a podcast
The idea of Tom Green telling the editor to colour grade one shot incorrectly just to slightly weird out some people is somehow funnier to me than the elaborate stuff with the sausages etc.
I think that was for anyone who pirated or bootlegged the movie to think that something was wrong with it. Kind of brilliant because it has no bearing on anything else in the film.
Tom Green with Kaufmanesque ferver: Someone will notice and care, just watch!
@@MichaelRodriguez-zr2ht thats exactly what came to my mind, but having a bunch of people returning their DVD or VHS instead of banging on the TV lol. every scenario these two spoke about, wondering whether it was intentional or not, i can just imagine tom at home right now laughing at these two and calling one of his buddies to say "look, they noticed the gag".
According to him in his book he edited the movie himself
Watching it in context I definitely feel like it was done to heighten the faux drama of the scene because it's such a particular shot of Drew Barrymore looking sad.
Tom Green absolutely needs to be a Best of the Worst guest.
holy shit
Probably not after they talked so much shit about him
I need this pleeeeeeeeasssseeeeeeee
10000%
@@544001 I don’t think Tom green would care. I think he would find it flattering. They actually imply he’s a genius but aren’t sure because they’re not sure if it’s just a character or actually him.
The first clue is in the movie poster, which depicts Green as a movie director.
Just fully understood that implication! Damn.
Yup
Plus the tagline, "This time, you can't change the channel."
I love watching Jay slowly realize that Mike is completely right about this movie. It's amazing.
How do you not realize Tom Green is the ultimate troll and genius? All you need to do is watch an episode of his show. But yeah I agree, it was vindicating to see it start to dawn on him
I agree. And it shows how brilliantly perceptive Mike is. We are lucky to have him.
Even watching this re:view makes me crack up again and has me howling at the scenes in this movie. It makes me cry laugh.
@@theeternalnow6506 GET THE F*CK OUT OF THE WAY!
[Directed by Tom Green]
Subway monkey hour is a classic
The amount of times jay has to say “I don’t think this is intentional” lends credence to Mike’s theory that every single one was intentional. Lol
It doesn't take a lot of research into Tom's history to know it was all intentional. He was close to Tim and Eric, Greg Turkington etc very early in their careers, so it's pretty clear that he's in on the joke. It's impossible to enjoy Greg Turkington's comedy if you're not in on the joke.
@@aarondavis8943 yeah the part where they said he didn’t seem intelligent in interviews… clearly they were watching him in character. If you see him on the Norm MacDonald show he’s clearly sharp as a tack and his memory is super impressive.
@@andrewrankin1921 just what i was thinking
@@aarondavis8943 I would say I'm a fan of Tim and Eric. But this comment made me remember about Turkington running with his character in On Cinema and making it seem real.
I just noticed that the movie poster, which incidentally is just behind Jay and Mike the whole time, is Tom Green doing the hand frame pose on us through the fourth wall. I think it means that the audience is the movie, the butt of the joke.
"You could say it was the second worst thing to happen in 2001."
Hey! I liked Osmosis Jones!
Vainglory 2KW8Ω That's not what they're talking about, idiot.
It's George W. Bush's presidency
god status comment. not mine. yours. context is Jesus Christ. unless you believe in Jesus Christ which then i say don't play Far Cry 5 you may find it somewhat offensive being perceived as a extremist in some manner because clearly people don't understand religious person next to religious zealot. if you aren't religious then i hope you find this to be funny if you did then cool if not then i guess i won't receive your validation thus me seeping further into a depression only created by the moguls of media.
Julien Becker It's a joke, genius.
AFlyingTaco1 Whoosh
+Julian Becker
-when you say "you idiot" and *you* don't even get the obvious joke.
Fun fact: I couldn’t go back to movie rental place ever again because I owed over 4 months of no return fees for this movie.
I remember hearing about a guy that never returned this movie to Blockbuster and years later he was pulled over and had a warrant for his arrest due to owing Blockbuster a huge fine. When Tom Green found out he paid it off for the guy.
@@wbharris1031 My immediate thought is they arrested him for liking this movie enough to hang on to it lol
@Epic Rhino Films like every company with late fees and free trials you mean?
You asshole you're part of the reason they went out of business
I worked at a video place when i was a kid and have seen people return movies owing hundreds of dollars in late fees. I always wanted to cut them a break but its like damn dude, uve had this movie for 6 months - what the hell happened?
I am proud to be able to say that my father, Al, was responsible for engineering and constructing the sausage piano based on Tom Green's fever-dream idea. It was the bleakest point of his special effects career, not so much because he had to work on what seemed to be at the time possibly the worst film ever made, but because my grandpa was dying of lung cancer as he was working overtime and essentially having a mid-life crisis. When production wrapped, he made my younger brother and I promise him that we would not watch it until we were 30, I didn't know why he was so adamant that we did not watch the film when we were kids until I saw it decades later and could not get through it on the first try due to the nuclear levels of cringe
He was in disbelief when I told him that FGF is now having a bizarre meta resurgence online, as he has done his best to erase working on this film from his career, keeping it off his IMDB credits, but I'm trying to rid him of the shame he's held on to all these years lol.
I recently found the surprisingly small crew photo (looked like less than 50 people) with him and Tom in it, as well as a sealed bottle of FGF beer featuring the famous horse on the label, given as a crew gift, that now sits proudly on my shelf.
That's amazing
@erdingtonsfinest937 Haha that's what I've been trying to tell him, as he hoped the world would forget about this movie and didnt want it on his IMDB, never in a million years did any of us think it would be getting a relatively positive review on RLM lmao. Currently trying to find an old VHS tape of home video from when I visited the set, it was the "Tunisia Set" which was actually some sort of quarry or some sand provider east of Vancouver. He also worked on that house falling and explosing, a sailboat getting dropped in to a woodchipper from a helicoper that was cut from the movie, and most of the other scenes involving explosions and car stuff - oh and can't forget the elephant cum explosion. Apparently he was also told to throw live chickens at the truck as it was driving prior, which I didn't see in the scene.
Proud
@mbid12 "proud...?"
@@mbid12 proud
I still can't get over Rip Torn's name.It's like Smash Broken, Explode Destroyed or Burn Incinerated.
Now all my furniture children shall have those names lol.
@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 lmfao, was supposed to say future, don't know why it says furniture, but I'm gunna keep it.
he's dead now. rip rip torn
There's a clip of Rip Torn in a lovely field and he is attacking Werner Herzog with a hammer
Crash Maimed
Rip Torn getting so drunk that he broke into a bank thinking it was his house is one of the funniest stories I've ever heard.
Just sounds like he was actually robbing it and got busted so he made up that excuse to hopefully stay out of trouble. Guess it worked
"Go get 'em, tiger."
"You'll fuckin fail anyways!" God bless rip
No that could have been a movie ;)
RIP
Tom Green said that he's seen this review. You guys have officially made it.
Neitenth where has he said that?
Neitenth What fucking year are we living in?
@@NotAustinV nice nose/glasses/hairline/hair/chin
Edit: background/shirt/weirdandoddlyfarapartcomparitivelyeyes/expression
@@Neitenth Macaulay Culkin has a podcast?!?
@@DIZMANofDX28 Bunny Ears. He's mentioned it several times on RLM. RLM people have gone on it.
After all the discussion of the movie being meta, they don’t mention how on the cover he’s framing a shot with his hands
Really wondered if it'd come up, shocked they said nothing about it.
That's brilliant.
I had this exact same thought as they showed the cover in the background the whole time.
And he’s got the frame ratio wrong.
Mike looks so fucking overjoyed throughout the entire review. It's nice.
Agreed. Rewatching this now had me howling at the scenes again and the Mike's giddyness at this movie.
@theeternalnow6506 I like Jay even less tho.. it's like he watched it in a bad mood and didn't want to like it,... at least he softened towards the end...
R.I.P in piece Rip - despite the breadth of your beloved filmography, Freddy Got Fingered will always be your magnum opus.
@@LetsPlayKenny He did dieded yeh, yesterday. Only in his late 80s - the good die young.
@@rageagainstmyhairline5574 I really want him to put his feet up
He was awesome on The Larry Sanders Show
He's in the commentary track on the DVD of the film as well ;)
His attempt to bludgeon Norman Mailer with a hammer is a close second
Mike constantly cracking a smile because he can't wait to reveal his revelation and he made such a compelling case that I have been won over.
Norm MacDonald and Andy Kuafman were two of his comedy heroes. Tom was on Norm's podcast and he's a clever guy and shares Norm's ability to "work" his audience. I believe Tom absolutely knew what he was doing when he made the movie.
If that’s true then it’s pretty much confirmed that he did.. which is awesome. I didn’t hate this movie at the time because even as a young person I think I understood the satire and it’s target? I think that the problem though was that the “Tom Green” persona and gross out era in general had a lot of people taking it seriously.. even had me being at least unsure .. so like Mike I was probably more love/hate. But now I think it’s genius.
Yeah. I get the feeling Tom would find it funnier knowing people don’t get the joke.
This is not a movie Tom made to entertain people. The film is the joke even if it’s not strictly funny. I’m ok with that and I suspect so is Tom.
The Roger Ebert review of this movie contains my favorite Ebert quote of all time:
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."
I loved Ebert and I loved FGF
A barrel roll?
Jeremy A barrel roll.
His reviews were the best.
A year later from this comment he sung about barrel rolls.
xD
The fact that after 17 years we still can't decide if this film was Genius or Garbage makes it genius imo.
To me it was genius since day 1, but I am just saying
It's genius. What made you more uncomfortable, him sucking on the cow's udder or the attempts of the father and son to forge some kind of common ground? Where else are you gonna get that kind of contrast?
What makes you think we can't decide? It's almost completely unanimous that the movie is shit.
@@murrayroodbaard207 you're awful, Murray.
Pfft. From the day it came out there was no question it's brilliant, and the greatest comedy ever filmed. Unless you're a stupid dummy.
@@leeleecassidy7175 dont do it arthur!
Rip Torn acts each scene as though he's been given the script at the precise moment the camera starts rolling
fuckoffhoxo And he’s been chugging gummy bears laced with laxatives and PCP.
That only works if there actually WAS a script.
fuckoffhoxo Yes.. “acts” like.
I'm surprised Tom Green had a crew and a budget let alone a script..
... He directed and wrote the script for the movie...
Today was the day that Criterion announced the Freddy Got Fingered release.
"Get the fuck out of the way!"
Jesus that entire scene is the greatest thing ever.
It was also made up on the spot, it wasn’t even in the script.
If there was only a word to describe how I feel about that scene.
Make your daddy proud!
@@dtcm8042 Prrooooud🤣
The fact that the 'Directed by Tom Green' credit appears on screen immediately after that happens is just the cherry on top.
Jokes aside, there’s an argument to be made that this movie was ahead of its time. Upon release it seemed incomprehensible, but post Eric Andre and Tim And Eric, it makes a lot more sense.
Yep, the pinnacle and *defining movie of; modern day "shock comedy"* in a sense..
yes, even though tim and eric and eric andre were extremely popular, which tom green has even said they just completely ripped off his shitck.
But Eric Andre and Tim and Eric are more surreal than what I see from Tom Green
Well those people almost certainly had Tom Green as a major influence to begin with.
Tim and eric suck
"This is a fancy restaurant. This is a fancy restaurant. It's a fancy. This is a fancy restaurant."
I 100% would watch a director's cut of Freddy got fingered
also to add on the "intentional sabotage" aspect, so many shots in the movie are set in busy areas with tons of extras and all sorts of expensive set design things like the bird's eye view of gord driving in the lebaron or all the stuff that gets thrown around and destroyed, as well as the needless cameos like shaq's, and finally the amount of licensed music in this movie-- I'm certain tom green must've tried to license beatles music for the movie just because it's expensive, and then you have the whole thing in pakistan and the hung house. All for the purpose of wasting the studios' money.
That's why I love that movie, you're watching someone waste 14 million dollars for giggles. Tom Green is the Joker.
So would i
TBF..... That pakistan film shoot woukd have totalled 3 hundred dollars .. in 90s dollars at that
@@Gianfranco_69 plane flights and the materials needed plus all the extras would've cost more than that
Favorite part is when Tom Green was yelling that his father was a CHIILLLLLD MOLLLESSSTTERR while looking like a crazed banshee hanging out the window. Almost 20 years and I still remember every scene of this movie
I fucking cry laughing every time
Notice how poorly edited it is. I think that was on purpose
I love every bit of that scene. Especially how he runs away after
YES, hilarious scene. He literally throws a bust of Sigmund Freud out the window before posing like a gargoyle and jumping out while screaming. Amazing.
The “proud” bit really did make me laugh though plus the “get the fuck out of the way!” After driving away
fun fact...the extra walked too soon and tom green just blasted her in rage because her timing was off. So both Toms and the extras reactions were real.
@@quarryspanish there are no mistakes in life, just happy accidents
“Dressed like an english Bobby...” POPPYCOCK
Omg the fanatic is the sequel to this movie.
@@jeltje50 Fanatic got Fingered
Criterion just announced it’s joining their collection. I credit you guys for making this a reality
Criterion's description of the movie basically boils down to "we're not even sure if this movie is good or not" and it's utterly hilarious.
Tom Green did an interview where he said the sequel would be called Freddy Got Fisted...and I wish he wasn't joking.
Awesome
A Freddy Got Fingered sequel is just what the world needs. With how fucked up 2020 was and 2021 will likely be, we need some positive art in the world. Something that will make us all.... proud
@@rawkguy4896 Proud?
@@gamecargo8115.... Proud :,)
@@rawkguy4896 I feel like it just wouldn't have quite the same impact in 2021 though. Everyone's just too triggered and easily offended these days.
Wait wait wait. The poster. Tom Green intentionally fucking up the "framing" gesture, a gesture stereotypical of directors. It has to be either intentional or the greatest coincidence of idiocy and genius of all time.
I never thought about this before, but that HAS to be the concept behind it. Considering Gord is a cartoonist, there's no reason why he would be putting up a typical "movie frame" gesture. And if it's supposed to be Tom Green, and saying "Hey, Tom Green in a movie!" then they could have done any number of takes where the rectangle he was making actually looked good.
He is very smart
I was just thinking this before I saw this comment. It oozes that attitude throughout the whole movie. God, my sister used to qute the daddy sausage line for years.
Even CARTOONS have been doing this for eons. What's so genius about that??
@@catalinamelo9932he’s doing it poorly, like the movie, but it’s intentional
Does anyone else laugh at the way Tom Green says the word "jewels"?
I still quote that scene from time to time, saying it the same way he did.
jooels
I think I laugh at how he says basically anything.
Is it a reference to ballsacks?
No. I didn't laugh at anything in this film.
I think the secret sauce to the entire movie was Rip Torn. His performance just elevates this thing above the typical schlock level.
Someone send this to Tom Green. He should see it.
3DSage doesn't he have a podcast now or something?
Proud!
john doe prouuuuud
DubVUChyea Proud?
Nobody Asked Me proud!
My wife and I went to see this the day it came out. The theater was packed. My wife, I, and maybe half a dozen other people were laughing our asses off. The rest of the theater was deadly silent. One of the few times I've actually seen multiple people get up and leave a movie. I think it's funny as hell.
Hilarious movie.
This happened to me and group of friends during Machete. We basically were cry laughing throughout the entire film, at first it was just us, by the end of the movie the entire theatre was in tears. Good times.
Really funny movie.
Lowest common denominator 😒
I just got the line in Real Slim Shady "but it's okay for Tom Green to hump a dead moose" only to realize that it's playing in the background.... This is why I love this channel. I can't wait for 1,000,000 subs.
Timestamp it man. wth.
The song is in the film. It plays during the end credits.
WE DID IT 1 MILLION SUBS
RedLetterMedia are pros at using extremely rare Dr. Dre instrumentals. Good taste.
I mean I always hear that lyric and it made all perfect sense the first time I watched Freddy Got Fingered
I'd be part of the Tom Green is a potential genius. His comedy "meat and potatoes" isnt for everyone and its hit and miss for me, but where his genius lies is the the way he structures his act. As mentioned he was one of the first doing the guerilla street and location shooting and influenced many upon many other performers and artists of that era and beyond. But you also throw in the fact he's been doing a "podcast" style streams since 2006, you start to realize he's not just stumbling into these ideas. The dude has been a underrated influencer IMO.
He's a modern comedy pioneer across many mediums and he often doesn't get the flowers he deserves because he's strayed so far from the mainstream and never watered down his material for mass appeal.
Agreed with all of the above. On top of that he was pretty good rapper as well. That clip with xzibit always blew my mind.
Tom was not a fool.
yeah, i think most people just dont GET it. and sometimes like even if you think you get it, you dont get it. tom is on something else.
“influencer”
So now Freddy Got Fingered's a Disney movie.
I mean yea it was Fox's film but because of the recent Disney-Fox buyout... Tom Green in Kingdom Hearts 3 when?
TVBForever Tom Green: “Sora stick the key up my bum bum bum!!!”
ROFL!
Can we get a shirtless Sora doing a musical quicktime event minigame in the cheese factory with Gord?
That would give Kingdom Hearts 3 an adult rating.
"Sora would you like some sausage?"
Tom Green is brilliant. The entire movie was satire and intentional. You're not supposed to like him. If he would have done anything to meet expectations of what 'conventionally good' movies are supposed to do it would have ruined it. He was way ahead of his time, look at Eric Andre and Tim Heidecker.
There's absolutely no way this wasn't tongue-in-cheek, I don't really understand why Jay refuses to give him the credit he's due
In fact I feel like that's even part of the joke, he knew it would fly over the head of a lot of people because it's presented in such a deadpan way
@@WiddericI'd go as far to say World Peace (the show) wouldn't exist either
@@triceratroytv2292good thing you specified the show, i would have thought you were talking about the concept of world peace.
Such a great film. I'm proud to say that...
Proud
Proud
Proud?
so proud.
No I'm proud.
proud
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!!!
I've seen this video like 8 times and the scenes of the kid getting hurt still make me feel like I'm having a heart attack. That kids screams were so insanely realistic it hurts.
I can just picture an audience watching that and kind of laughing then going completely cold
I am 100% positive the film was an intentional troll because of that running gag. Like ANY other movie with a joke of a kid getting hurt would make it be cartoonish and silly, but for no goddamn reason Tom made it FULLY REALISTIC.
The physical comedy in that movie really sticks with you. The most memorable scene for me was Gord convincing Freddy to try the halfpipe and he immediately snaps his shin and starts screaming at the top of his lungs.
@@barahng And then Freddy licking his bone as it was sticking out.
when he takes the beer bottle to the face lmao
I've always seen this movie like Mike does, to me it's like the perfect satire of the shitty 2000's teen comedy movies and it's intentionally filled with non-sequiturs and deliberate moments of filmmaking incompetence.
@Will P if you don’t get Tom green before watching this then I think you’re perspective can be screwed
27:46 “The MPAA gave this movie an R rating - that is definitive evidence that the MPAA ratings board is morally adrift.” - Roger Ebert 😂
For me the payoff for the horse scene is *right after* it shows his Dad getting out of a car saying "I'm really proud of that kid", lol
I'm actually laughing just reading this. I think this is my favourite movie again.
I really love how right after Tom gets that Lebaron he starts to drive and screams at a pedestrian "GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!" I don't know why it was so funny but it was.
ROCKETS BETTY!
_Proud..._
I love the horse scene only for the fact that after it cuts to his parents, his dad says "ya know, I'm really proud of that boy"
I love it because how it came so out of nowhere pretty much right at the start.
Like, I never imagined seeing that kind of stuff in a movie
PROUD
@@lucydog3376 PROUD
I showed my friend that scene in March last year after coming back to school from a trip. It ruined him forever, he couldn’t stop laughing that day. I’m proud.
“Wig wom wag wag.”
Some of my favorite parts of the movie come from the directness of the dialogue. “He’s pretending to have a cell phone. He’s an unemployed loser living in my basement”
This movie proves that Hollywood has no idea what audiences want and will spend money on anything so long as it makes money.
Tom Green trolled Fox with this film.
Tom Green is the Leonardo Davinci of whatever the fuck he did.
@@maximummatt73 Leonardo Da Vinci of brain damage
Gotta hand it to Jay and Mike, singlehandedly gaslighting the entirety of cinefile Gen-Z into watching Freddy Got Fingered is no small task.
No joke, this became one of my favorite movies and I would have never known of it without Redlettermedia
I randomly found the movie on Hulu and it was a great experience
@@cardigansruleunder🎉🎉🎉 rated comment
It's not gaslighting, they're genuinely stating exactly what they think of the movie.
It was one of my favorite movies as a kid. "look daddy I'm a farmer!"
probably one of the main reasons why I'm messed up.
Tom green has said multiple times, Freddy got fingered was meant to be the most stupidest film he could produce. He intended for it to be hated by half the audience and that was part of the joke.
Thank you for not trying to say that it isn't funny like so many other reviews. It's a stepping stone for so many comedy styles, has to be appreciated as such.
Preeeeeetty sure RLM has the clout to get Tom Green to answer some of your questions about the film.
Looking forward to a follow-up video. Do eeeeet.....
Watch the audio commentary on the DVD.
This. I remember bits and pieces of the DVD commentary and Tom for sure knew what he was doing.
Yes. I'm running out of things to click on youtube. please do this.
I would love to see Tom Green on RLM talking about Freddy Got Fingered!
It's amazing they hated Movie 43, but think this is genius?
I'm not sure if you guys have noticed or not, but you've lit a Tom Green revival fire among your early 20-something demographic
I'd say Eric Andre lit a "revival fire" for Tom Green more than Red Letter Media. Even Eric says that Tom Green's Canadian show was a huge influence on his talk show and it's obvious, but I also feel he's passing the torch in a new direction that I like and not just a "copy" which is derogatory. I'm not saying this video didn't bring about a discussion and open some eyes up to Tom Green, but most won't click on this without some prior knowledge of the movie, either through hearsay or watching it yourself due to the attention it received.
Edit: I also want to say that Tom is one of the nicest guys ever. My Mom met him in a salon and even took a picture with her in the middle of his haircut. I showed her all his episodes back in the day because she has a dark sense of humour, and she heard him talking while getting a haircut in Ottawa (his hometown) a few years ago, he was happy to oblige to a picture, so that makes him even more of a legend in my book.
Vice Reeves and Bob Mortimer we’re doing what Eric Andre is doing, back in the 80’s. Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and in the early 90’s, Shooting Stars.
@@hellinterface6721 lol you don't understand Hannibal?
He’s on celebrity big brother now!!
@@juankusoff Vic and Bob are definitely an unsung influence on this style of comedy, but they never did the whole 'harassing members of the public to the point where they assault you' schtick.
I saw this movie back when I was 13 and thought it was the greatest thing ever made. A few years later I couldn’t stand it. And then in my thirties I rediscovered it and again think it’s one of the greatest cinematic achievements ever conceived.
The fact that you guys can spend 30 minutes trying to analyze the creator's motives through their medium makes me think it's art.
30 edited minutes, they spent more time thinking about what to say and conversating about it.
This movie was comedic gold and the sad thing is there will probably never be anything close to it again.
Maybe Eric Andre can pull something like this off
I was the target audience when I saw this, thirteen years old. It was hyped to me by a friend who was always into the most extreme edgy stuff, making him the coolest kid around. I borrowed the tape off him and loved it. To us, it was just pure comedy, the totally outrageous nonsensical bullshit was the funniest thing ever. And we weren't old enough to be ironic about it or analyse the symbolism. We just took it at face value.
There was no deeper meaning for me when I watched it either lol. Just young kids who thought that type of shit was hilarious. And it was.... still is.... damn i don't want to get old haha.
Yep
Same here. I watched it when I was a kid an loved it. I just rewatched it now, thinking I'd think it was stupid and unfunny, since I was so much older now, and such movies often don't age well. Yet, I haven't laughed as hard as I did rewatching Freddy Got Fingered in a long time. To my surprise, I loved it even almost 20 years later. I guess I'm either immature as hell, or this movie is actually good in its own insane way.
One of our parents signed us in to the theater to see it when we were around 13-14 as well. Laughed my ass off the entire time.
I saw this in the theatre when I was like 19 and still laughed my ass off. It's an absurdist masterpiece.
Don’t forget when the Tom Green Show was cancelled he kept it going in his living room and streamed it for free on his website. (It was more of a late night tv kinda set up) He actually had some good guests come through too. That predated most people doing online streaming. He was a lot a smarter (and still is) than people give him credit.
You guys were pretty spot on with the movie haha. I forgot how ridiculous it was. You’ve forced me to bust that dvd out and dust it off 😂
It wasn't just streamed online - I remember staying up until 12:30am almost every night in high school to watch it on the Comedy Network here in Canada. Yeah... it was called Tom Green's House Tonight. I specifically recall that his interview with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit was one of the weirdest, most entrancing moments from that whole series.
He basically invented podcasts ...and TH-cam ...and streaming....and it was supported by fan donations similar to twitch ..
His TH-cam channel is pretty cool too.
I called in on skype twice. Got to talk to Harlan Williams and Jimmy Kimmel. Felt like I was part of his household. It was such a fun comfort long into the night.
It takes a genius to play an idiot 😎
Critics in 2001: "It's garbage."
Critics in 2018: "It's meta."
Stealth Docs
I still think it’s garbage. Even if it is “parody”, that doesn’t make it in any way good.
Just look at that poster they have up there. Of course it was self-aware. It's weird to me that Jay doesn't see it.
Me: It's meta garbage.
I mean I liked it in 2001 and I like it now. It’s awful, but something about it just works
saw it opening week. Still think it’s one of the funniest movies ever made.
"Do you have a problem with my legs?"
"No, you have a problem with your legs, that or you're just lazy."
SHUT UP DAD! SHUT UP!
Best actual joke of the movie
I think the skateboard through the mall scene is parody of all of the movies that start with the main character skateboarding on their way to something, and they thought it would be funny to instead have him be just getting in the way of shit
Basic subversion and all that.
When I hear the dialogue I feel like the studio required a minimum word count on the script. I love hearing it with that thought in my mind.
"we can do a full show on Tom Green's career", Please do
You forgot to mention the part in his career where he essentially invented the podcast.
Video is not about his career, it's about a movie
@@moses420 they give you a brief description of his career in the video and they neglected to mention it, numb nuts.
and planking lol
@@Schemezors would you mind educating us?
Not sure why people keep saying this when podcasts were going way back in 2000?
THE REVIEW I NEVER EXPECTED BUT ALWAYS SECRETLY DESIRED AND CANNOT IMAGINE NOT EXISTING IN MY LIFE
This movie is batshit insane and I loved every damn second of it. The fancy restaurant scene had me in tears. 😆
Without the Tom Green Show Jackass would have never existed. I'd call him more of a trend setter than a fad. He even pre dates the on the street "prank" TH-cam channels.
ElitePizza311 I also think podcasts today wouldn’t exist with out him starting webovision, joe Rohan said his set up inspired him to do it. He had a switch he could just flip and everything would go live to the web in a studio in his house. Hecktic huh!?
Ye, Tom Green literally created planking back in the 90s. He has vids of it
The entire relationship between Bam Margera and his family reminds me so much of this movie as well.
@@Rexda1e or just tom green and his family irl. like when he painted a stripper or something on his dads car
Facts
The kid saying he’s ok at the end actually makes it funnier because of how ridiculous it is
I agree, but I imagine the point was that a character like this truly suffers and so his tragic and hyper violent death would bring home how silly that character trope is.
Him surviving also gets that point across so I’m trying to figure out which is funnier to me 🤔 lol
For me it works because of the disparity between realistic violence done to him paired with realistic consequences with real pain compared to a ridiculous act of violence with no consequences whatsoever
Comedy has finally caught up to Tom Green.
This movie may seem semi normal now, but when I saw it in theaters, and made people watch it when I bought it immediately on home video, it was very shocking.
But if you've watched Tim and Eric, or The Eric Andre show this movie won't seem that bad.
Eric Andre owes almost everything to Tom Green.
I was exactly 16 1999, so I was his target age.
I wish Eric Andre and Tom Green would work together in some way like Tom Green should host an episode of the Eric Andre show ( like when late night shows have celebrity guest fill in for the host) but then instead of Eric Andre being on vacation or what not he should be an audience member laughing loudly off camera and or like interrupting Tom to direct the interview... or the ultimate would be the classic Jerry Lewis vs. Andy Kaufman bit have Tom pretend to show up to the set unannounced and attack Eric Andre in front of the guest for stealing show concept essentially, that would be the greatest ever!
@@TysonHook-22- tom green made a cameo at the start of an episode of eric andre
Akilda Lion
Nobody is exactly sixteen.
Basically there'd be no adult swim without Tom Green
You mean no Jackass
I watched this film when I was a kid with my best mate and I was crying from laughter and my mother banned me from watching it. I'm now 31 and watched this with best mate again the other week and cried from laughter once more. My mother banned me from watching it again.
I love that The Real Slim Shady is playing in the background, the only place I know Tom Green from
I was wondering if somebody would notice.
"Can't we go for a walk or something?" "Heheheh no... I CAN'T WALK." lmao
That's hilarious
Two friends and I skipped school in 7th grade on April 20th to see this movie at an 11 am showing. Nobody was there taking tickets, three 13 year olds just walked right in and watched this film on opening day for free. What a time to be alive.
I think its so damn cool that you guys broke down a movie most people wouldn't glance at more than once and find a humor in it that I completely missed.
It really seems like Tom Green did what Eric Andre does now....TG was his pre-cursor of sorts.
eric andre is the definition of a hack. He's literally just a watered down no-balls version of surrealist weirdo cringe comedy
Two years later, watching Jay struggle to comprehend this masterpiece still doesn't get old.
I just watched it again 2 years after your comment. Obviously, I agree.
4 years later it computes
This movie is such an assault on audience expectations. It amazes me how even someone who notices the off color timing on Drew Barrymore's crying shot (to make it look faker) can question whether the hundreds of consistent choices against formula this movie makes were, in fact, intentional. Even Eraserhead fans are afraid to be seen embracing it.
It’s so obviously all a parody, how anyone can see otherwise ASTOUNDS me.
Yeah that's a great point
He just doesn't like Tom Green, obviously
@@REEEE-eq6mx still doesn't make the movie funny
@@kevinmatta9262 Then why do people find it funny?
It was the movie America didn't want, but definitely deserved
"You make your daddy proud, you hear me?" Rest in peace Rip Torn!
"Proud?"
RIP Rip
I'm gonna make you so proud daddy
@dustisdeadbodies85 Proud.
GET THE FUCK ATTA THE WAY!!!!!!!
This is an amazing contrast to the Nostalgia Critic review
@@DanArnets1492 Yeah! I got the impression that he didn't quite understood or liked it whereas Mike here is almost convinced this is a masterpiece in disguise
@@alexsilva28 Which would be more worth my time? Watching the Nostalgia Critic review of the movie, or just watching the movie again? I already watched it yesterday.
Nostalgia critic is stupid though that’s the big difference
Nostalgia Critic is for young teens that like epic random humour. I stopped caring what Doug thinks about films yeaaaars ago. No comparison between him and RLM in my eyes.
Nothing wrong with having two different perspectives, especially with this movie.
10:24 - "Inclusivity Rider." For those who don't understand. This was something Frances McDormand said when she won Best Actress in 2018. It was a diversity thing, but no one knew what she meant. And then she did an insane laugh.
So basically she had just seen the TED talk about inclusivity riders earlier that day and decided to mention it in her speech
@@frankmerker630 Actually it was one week before the awards. So yeah lol.
Inclusivity Writer... The script writer was a diversity hire.
Jay really needs to just accept that Tom Green made a genius movie
This movie was a cringe piece of fecal matter. This guy was the kid who mixed his whole lunch with mayonnaise and milk and chugged It because he desperately wanted attention.
@@JoshAintSoCoolI’m sure he was being sarcastic but true
I don't think you are being sarcastic,. Any movie that makes you unable to stop laughing? Laugh cry? Spit your drink out? Genius.
@@Galvatronover I was definitely NOT being sarcastic. I think the movie is genius
I remember when I got the DVD for Freddy Got Fingered, and all over the case were reviews from critics that were negative on the film. But the slip had a single positive review that took up the whole piece of paper, and if I recall correctly it also talked about some of the things Mike and Jay are saying, about how it's a deconstruction of shitty romance comedies, a subversion of taste, etc.
That's amazing...
I love watching that DVD with the audience reaction isolated audio track.
I thought Rip Torn was the one saving grace in this movie. He was always asking Gordy the same question the audience wanted to know, which was, "WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU DOING?"
I was in middle school in the Toronto area of Canada. Tom Green was in Ottawa, about five hours away. He was this legend whose shows were passed around on VHS tapes, and he was then what the Paul brothers are now. Being that age in that part of the world, it was a thrill for us to watch our guy blow up.
Rand Paul and Sean Paul.
who the fuck are the "paul brothers"?
ElsaWhoaa Some shitty youtubers who used to make vines,Logan Paul literally found a dead body in the japanese suicide forrest and made fun of it,acting disrespectful in places with high reputation for being acted with the upmost respect,tazed dead rats,and more while Jake Paul made shitty music videos about how he's rich and famous.
Most of they're fans are little kids who shit on anyone who dislikes the Paul brothers
I am from India originally, and spent 5 years in Ottawa. This dude is literally from my college- Algonquin. He was alright in Road Trip.
Yeah, even as a kid I got the vibe like people in Canada have had this weird underground cable-access comedy meme and for some accidental reason it's on American TV now.
Rip Torn is a force of nature in this. He gets the film, or lack there of, and turns the pissed dad to a level that makes the whole thing work.
When he's swinging the baby around the room and they're beating on the tambourines... One of the funniest things I've ever seen.
I didn't find it funny at all. Then again, I work at a maternity hospital; I see that kind of thing every day.
@@RFC-3514 yeah it happens all the time. Not that funny really.
It’s absolutely terrible until the tender part immediately afterward to round it out which is necessary for the aforementioned terrible part to be good/funny, imo.
@@RFC-3514 You see people swinging just-born babies over their heads by their umbilical cord every day?
@@Noooiiiissseee - It's standard procedure.
The acting in this movie is actually top-notch.
Oh yes. Tom Green acted like an unfunny jackass and I completely believed his performance.
To be honest, they deserve an Oscar for being able to keep a straight face in some scenes.
Rip Torn is a fucking legend! You know anyone else who has attacked Norman Mailer with a toy hammer?
DADDY WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SAUSAGE?
Daddy would you like some SAU-SA-GES?
Sausages! Sausages!
If this were Pakistan he’d be stitching soccer balls when he was six years old
How did they go this whole review without mentioning that scene?
I’m the backwards man the backwards man, I can walk backwards fast as I can
Every single second of the film is filled with something either hilarious or important and I've stood by this movie since it's inception. The amount of "screw you"s to Hollywood in it are awesome. The side kick neighbor kid getting traumatically injured throughout always has me in knots. The kid did a fantastic job. The teeth coming out is so realistic it's so messed up hahahahah.