IS THERE A PLOT?

In the film, Tom Green is a Portland, Oregon, loser who dreams of becoming an animator for a Hollywood cartoon company. After lying to a receptionist, Drew Barrymore (Charlie's Angels, E.T.), he's able to track down the cartoon company's CEO played by Anthony Michael Hall (The Dead Zone, The Breakfast Club). Green's drawings of a cat with X-ray vision are quickly rejected and he returns home to Portland. Green's disappointed parents are played by Rip Torn (Men In Black, The Beastmaster, Robocop 3) and Julie Hagerty (Airplane, What About Bob?).

They don't know what to do with their 28-year-old son. He's a loser and can't get a job. He spends his days torturing his father with various pranks like making sausage piano contraptions and taking a shower while wearing scuba gear. All this family trauma lands the family in therapy. Tom Green uses these therapy sessions as another way to get back at his father. Green tells the psychiatrist that his father "fingers" his 25-year-old younger brother played by Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie) in the basement. The police take the little brother away to the Institute for Sexually Molested children and his mother leaves his father for Shaquille O'Neal.

Green's girlfriend, a paraplegic blonde who likes to have her legs whacked with bamboo, creates a rocket propelled wheelchair, and finally inspires Green. He finally comes up with a good cartoon idea, a zebra-human hybrid family from Africa who moves to America. He sells his idea for a million dollars and now he has lots of money to to use on expensive items to torture his father including night vision, helicopters, and a construction crew who moves his father's house to Pakistan. It's after this final house moving prank, that Green and his father make up and the film ends.

GROSS GREEN MOMENTS

As you can see, the plot is loose, but Green does pile on his visual gross-out humor that has made him famous. Here are the Top 10 Green Grossout moments in the film:

Top 10 Green Grossouts Click on the thumbnails for larger images.
01	Chewing through an Umbilical Cord It was an emergency, Green scared a woman into labor when he knocked over a medical tray.
02	Dancing Around in a Deer Carcass A CEO of a cartoon company told him to 'get inside' the animals to better understand the characters. Green took this advice literally with some road kill.
03	The Fake Phone Call Green uses the cordless phone from his kitchen and a tape player to pretend he has a cell phone at a fancy restaurant. The ring sound effect he uses is ridiculous. It's the ring from an old rotary phone from the 1950s. It's pretty funny.
04a	Holding a Horse's Penis Green got excited while driving by a horse ranch. He needed a closer look and a shake I guess.
04b	Holding an Elephant's Penis In the final scenes of the movie, Green uses an elephant's penis to hose his father off his feet. Not with urine.
05	Beating a Paralyzed Girl's Legs with Bamboo It was a fetish for her. Green gets carried away while beating her legs and hits her in the face. Oops.
06.	Licking his best friend's Compound Fracture Green's friend broke it on a skateboard ramp in his driveway. Green was trying to help.
07	The Sausage Song Green creates a weird sausage keyboard to sing to his father. This was pretty funny. It's too bad Green didn't expand on this and write a full song.
08	Scuba Shower After Green is in the shower for a long period of time, his father goes to investigate. Green is pretending the soap-on-a-rope is pirate treasure.
09	The Zebra Cartoon Green's cartoon about a white zebra-human hybrid family from Africa who moves to America, earns him a million dollars to use in the torture of his father.
10	Moving Dad's House to Pakistan In the movie, Green's father tells him that if they lived in Pakistan, Green would be sewing soccer balls by age 4. Green gets even with dad for this comment.
Special thanks to Google's image search for these pictures.

FINAL THOUGHTS

The movie has it moments, but Green loses something in the transition from television's loose structure to the formal demands of film. His MTV television show allowed him to freely run around conducting his pranks without the bother of a plot or character development. In Freddy Got Fingered you wait through the bad plot waiting for the next Green gross out moment. Tom Green is talented, but needs to be packaged better. He did a great job in the movie Road Trip and adds a comedic wackiness to any cast. He just has trouble holding a movie on his own.

• Suggested Snack: Cheetos and Dr. Pepper
• Watch It With: Teenage boys.
• How you'll Feel at the End of the movie: Like there was no plot.
• If you liked this film try: Road Trip, American Pie 2, licking yourself.

This item is available for purchase from Amazon.com Tom Green tries to 'make it' as a professional cartoonist in Hollywood. Along the struggle he ends up playing with a horses's penis, chewing on an umbilical cord and pissing off his father. Rating: Requirements: DVD player Manufacturer: Tom Green