Personally I feel like “awards” like the Razzies are better suited for films that actually tried and failed.

Freddy Got Fingered wasn’t a masterpiece on the levels of Citizen Kane but it didn’t claim to be. It didn’t try to be a captivating film, trying to tell you a compelling story that would change the world of film. It just set out to be a silly movie with immature humor and I think it was successful in that regard as someone who likes those kind of movies. I’d say it’s one of the best in this specific, niche genre. Whereas I’d say a movie like Epic Movie was more deserving of this since it tried to cater to this audience and genre and failed.

It’s like rating an oatmeal raisin cookie bad solely because you don’t like oatmeal raisin cookies. It never claimed to be a chocolate chip cookie. It is its own flavor and exists because some people do like it. In the world of cookie flavors, you don’t like oatmeal raisin and that’s okay but it doesn’t mean that that cookie is necessarily bad because that’s not your preference.

Much of the hate I saw for this movie was from this type of mentality. I was surprised to see it rated so low on IMDb back when I first saw this many years ago. Not because I thought it was a groundbreaking film, but I didn’t realize that people would really go out of their way to give a movie so much hate in a genre they don’t like, to begin with. I don’t like the Twilight movies, but I’d say the same for the hate those movies got since they were successful for the audiences they targeted.