San Diego Reader

MTV jester Tom Green spreads his wings, directing himself in the role of the idiot offspring of Rip Torn (matching facial hair), taking up the gross-out gauntlet (umbilical-cord jokes, paraplegic S&M jokes, child-molestation jokes), and thus initiating a hairsplitting debate as to which he has less of -- talent or taste? Some of his humor is oddly realistic or realistically odd -- undeveloped, unpolished, unsharable -- but that doesn't tip the debate one way or the other. With Julie Hagerty, Marisa Coughlin, Harland Williams, and a cameo by the filmmaker's mate, Drew Barrymore. 2001.

— Duncan Shepherd

• Rated R

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