Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Wordiezett So much average

GazerRise Fantastic!

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

crownofsprats Look, I'm gonna throw out some film names here, and if you're into any of them, chances are you'll be into this too:Nothing But Trouble, Terrorvision, Greasy Strangler, Meet The Feebles, Meet The Hollowheads, Street Trash, Forbidden Zone, Frankenhooker...Yes, this can unequivocally be described by words like "stupid" or "crude". But that would be missing the point. You like your films extra-bizarre with a heaping of absurdity on the side? This is gen-x anti-corporate cynicism lumped together with a greasy carnie's hallucinatory visions, deep fried in bizarre, drenched in crude browns and greens. The stale, dated jokes don't matter - they're like a weird crust made out of old crushed-up potato chips. A few even manage to land here and there. Bobcat is maximally obnoxious, and some of the freak characters have literally zero dimension beyond a gag or two. But the SFX are almost as great as Randy Quaid's performance, so it all balances out. Frankly, this is a million miles above most mainstream frat humor both then and now, and a more entertaining piece of cinema than a third of the garbage that actually made it onto the theater screen in the 90s. (The Kilmer/Clooney Batman films immediately spring to mind.) In short: if you were looking for something like this, you will be very happy to have found it.

MisterWhiplash Freaked is the kind of movie that Lloyd Kaufman's company Troma wants to make, all the time, 24/7. And they often do, but with a lack of talent and a dearth of funds, so that the cheesy script that has some real edge to it on occasion suffers from everything else around it being so Z-grade (sometimes this benefits it like Class of Nuke Em High, and other times not at all). But directors Alex Winter (who played Bill in Bill & Ted) and Tom Stern have money, at least enough to pull off some solid special effects make-up, and some genuine comic talent, at least the kind that could go for this kind of thing. And yes, I include Brooke Shields, Deep Roy, Bobcat Goldthwait and Mr. T in this discussion. Also, Alex Winter. And Randy Quaid is there too. For the sake of a film like Freaked, set in Santa Flan and about a crazy hick who creates his own carnival of freaks from a corporate-created toxin, it's just what's necessary (Keanu Reeves is here too, but uncredited).The jokes fly at a clip that is about as insane as imaginable. It has the pacing that is even more reminiscent of a Looney Tunes cartoon, or something really crazy like an underground comic or Ren & Stimpy at their most manic-brilliant. A joke goes so fast and thick, either visual (Rastafarian Eyeballs, I rest my case), or verbal, like the dialog from the corporate toxin-mongers, "Twelve milkmen IS theoretically possible. Thirteen is silly. Looks like there's one milkman too many, Coogan!" That the designs on everybody, Winter, Mr. T, Goldthwait, Reeves (yes, the Dog-Boy he is) is really convincing is one thing, since it's work done for a really outrageous cause. Even little things like the Alfred E. Newman kid comes off convincingly. Did I mention all of the jokes going so much? It is a comedy where overkill is more than a possibility, it is a necessity after a while. From practically the start it's set up like a Pee Wee's Playhouse episode dipped in kerosene and let loose inside of a madhouse (yes, even more than the Playhouse). But the filmmakers bypass going *too* far (if that's possible) by sticking to their metaphorical guns. If you're making a movie about a bunch of freaks where Randy Quaid is the master in charge, why not go for the most crazy things imaginable and crudely so (for example, the seemingly wisest character of the freaks, an eloquent British-voiced earthworm, keeps asking for help to wipe his own ass). This isn't Tod Browning's film, which actually tried for some real heart and depth to looking at actual freaks. It's a gaudy cartoon spectacle, and it's filmed like it and acted like it and for every one joke or gag or pun that falls flat, twenty others hit their targets directly. It even trumps another 1993 comedy, Mel Brooks' Robin Hood, for being so zany that for the right viewer (like myself) you have to catch your breath. If you're in the mood for it, you'll get attached to it pretty quickly. It's got such an array of imagination and absurdism, from gags involving postal worker uniforms to a transformation *into) Brooke Shields as a mutant equivalent, that it either works for you or it doesn't. It did for me, and it's more than likely to hit a nerve with film geeks looking for that kind of obscure mid 90's cult gem.

Aaron1375 This movie is a parody type movie...though there is not a particular movie being spoofed here. More along the lines of a "Top Secret" as this movie has its own plot and stands on its own. And for that I commend it. I just did not find it all that funny. Sure I liked a couple of the jokes like the part where the music is playing and Randy's character tells them to shut the music off. The story basically has this guy who is some sort of star traveling along the countryside and running into a freak show. Well he soon becomes the freak show's main attraction as the owner of said show makes his freaks with a bizarre device. Of course, before this we have a scene where the star is being interviewed by Brooke Shields in a talk show type setting. So basically the movie is sort of a recount of what happened. So we have a bunch of freaks to get to know as well as the star's traveling companions become Siamese twins, there is a worm guy, a strange sock puppet guy and you even get to see Mr. T as a bizarre woman. Though the saddest tale is that of the one tool that became another (have to admit, that was pretty funny). Still, for the most part I just did not enjoy the movie, however, there are worse ways to spend one's time.

gavin6942 A young entrepreneur and former child star (Alex Winter) travels to South America for his corporation and tries to get a nasty chemical sold there. Instead, he stumbles upon a freak show and ends up becoming one of them -- deformed due to exposure to (what else?) the very chemical he was trying to market.This film has everything going for it. I thought this was going to get a nine out of ten, and the folks from Netflix thought it would be the best film I ever saw. Randy Quaid, Alex Winter, that guy from "Blossom", Keanu Reeves, Bobcat Goldthwait, Larry Bud Melman, Brooke Shields and William Sadler. What a cast! And the jokes are pretty funny (the airplane joke is hilarious and the Ramada Inn joke was priceless). Even the company name EES (Everything Except Shoes) was amusing. What went wrong? Two things failed for me. First, the jokes from the first half didn't continue into the second half. Many of the more clever moments were used up right away. Actually, I can't recall a good joke from the second half to be honest. And second, the movie relied almost exclusively on the "freaks" to be the entertainment. I didn't find them very interesting. Sure, the makeup department did a fine job. But it's just overkill. They didn't even give Keanu Reeves credit for his role, which I think would have helped the marketing and reception a great deal (you know, it's like a "Bill and Ted 3" or something).Luckily the film is really short (like 73 minutes) so by the time it goes downhill, the movie is nearly over. But the film cannot rely on Brooke Shields to carry it and some of the jokes are just obscure (I liked the racist Frogman joke, but my friend Jason didn't get it). Rent this if your curiosity gets the best of you, but otherwise don't. Ten years from now, this will be even more forgotten than it is right now (if that's possible).