Freddy Got Fingered

Directed by Tom Green, Freddy Got Fingered follows a slacker named Gord (Green) as he attempts to find success as a cartoonist. It’s a reasonable-enough premise that’s employed as a springboard for a series of surreal and mostly unsuccessful comedic set-pieces, as Green, armed with his and Derek Harvie’s screenplay, delivers a relentlessly erratic endeavor that suffers from an almost total lack of genuine laughs – with the arms-length atmosphere perpetuated by Green’s ongoing reliance on wildly over-the-top and egregiously disgusting gross-out images and gags (eg Gord licks the exposed bone of his friend’s broken limb, Gord delivers a baby and swings it around by the umbilical cord, Gord fondles a horse’s erect penis, etc, etc). And while the picture admittedly does boast a small handful of agreeable interludes (eg Gord rigs a pulley system of sausages, Gord concocts an elaborate prank involving his father’s home, etc), Freddy Got Fingered, despite its raft of affable performances (including Green himself, sometimes), predominantly comes off as a momentum-free slog that feels a whole lot longer than its 87 minutes.

*1/2 out of ****