7. Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
A film that received a critical mauling upon release - few films have inspired such wrath - Freddy Got Fingered was a massive success in home DVD sales and has undergone something of a critical renaissance. The film follows the adventures of Gord Brody, an unemployed 28 year old cartoonist who longs to have his own cartoon show. He heads to Hollywood to pursue his dream and ends up working in a cheese sandwich joint after Dave Davidson, the CEO of a major animation studio tells him his ideas are crap. Disillusioned, Gord heads back home to the derision of his father Jim who also hates Gord's paraplegic girlfriend who is a nurse. After his father destroys his skateboard half pipe, Gord accuses him of molesting his younger brother. Freddy is sent to a home for abused children. He is 25. Gord returns to Hollywood with a new idea for a cartoon based on his relationship with his father. Jim comes into the room and goes beserk wrecking it. Davidson is sufficiently amused to sanction a series and gives Gord a cheque for $1,000,000. In response to an insult, Gord kidnaps his father and brings him to Pakistan. They make amends but end up kidnapped themselves. They are released four years later to a rapturous welcome from their fellow Americans who have been following the story. I really enjoy Freddy Got Fingered, and I am not a fan of gross out comedies, but I realise that comedy is a totally subjective experience and different things push different buttons for people. Nevertheless, I found the bad taste comedy in Freddy Got Fingered highly amusing. Whether he is masturbating a horse, swinging a baby around by its umbilical cord or beating his wheelchair bound girlfriend's legs with bamboo canes to sexually gratify her, Tom Green is bloody hilarious. It is all so outré it becomes surreal and a bit of a mind trip. Despised by the vast majority of people who watch it, FGF is either a comic masterpiece or a disgusting exercise in pure bad taste that stinks up the screen. I thought it was funny.