chamberlain:

“Watching Freddy Got Fingered, I wondered what the studio notes to Green must have been like (“Do you have to have so many giant animal cocks? Doesn’t the first giant animal cock get the point across? And wouldn’t the lead character be more sympathetic if he didn’t falsely accuse his father of molesting his son? And the part where Coughlan is called a “retard slut”: isn’t that potentially off-putting to women in the coveted 18 to 35 demographic?”)

In my line of work, it’s utterly rare and wondrous to witness the emergence of a dazzlingly original comic voice. I experienced that glorious sensation watching Fingered. If you were to give a talented but deeply disturbed 12-year-old $15 million to make a movie, I suspect it’d be a lot like Fingered. I can honestly say that I’ve never seen anything remotely like it. Green’s directorial debut boasts balls of such unprecedented size and grandeur that they should be mounted and displayed at the Smithsonian.

I think it helps to see Fingered less as a conventional comedy than as a borderline Dadaist provocation, a $15 million prank at the studio’s expense. Fingered didn’t invent the gross-out comedy, but it elevated it to unprecedented heights of depravity. It might have killed Green’s career, but oh what a way to go.”

- Nathan Rabin; The AV Club.

Watching this now; couldn’t agree more. Freddy Got Fingered is just too calculatedly terrible to be an accident. Tom Green is a genius.

I thought this movie was extremely funny.  Non-ironically.  For the record.