The insight-neutral scrag ends of what feels like ten decent documentaries on censorship, semantics, social policy and broadcasting coalesce in this painfully self-satisfied and poorly made ‘shock-doc’.
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02/12/09
Fuck (2006)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:40
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: A documentary that sets out to explore a lingual taboo but can't escape its own naughty posturing.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Theatrical Release:13-02-2009
Synopsis: This challenging and provocative documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. Its taboo, obscene and controversial, yet somehow seems to permeate every single aspect of our culture... [More]
Starring: Steven Bochco, Pat Boone, Drew Carey, Billy Connolly
Director: Steve Anderson
Reviews for Fuck
Top CriticThis could have been far more illuminating, challenging, or at the very least entertaining.
02/12/09
Top CriticDespite its flaws, Fuck does manage to leave you energised and determined to fight to the death to defend freedom of speech – or at least sit back and fire off a few swear words of your own in celebration. Shit, piss, fuck, etc…
02/19/09
As well as being humdrum, this is past its sell-by date: the film is a product of the Bush years, with the liberals making all the old complaints about Dubya’s encouragement of cultural puritanism.
02/19/09
A moderately amusing documentary about the second most offensive word in the English language.
02/12/09
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02/12/09
Entertaining documentary with an admirable array of talking heads, though it doesn't dig nearly as deep as you'd expect and contains some baffling omissions.
02/12/09
It's all reasonable but unoriginal stuff.
02/13/09
Top CriticSmug, shallow, repetitive, unilluminating and rarely funny.
02/19/09
More of a TV documentary than a movie, but there's enough good stuff here to keep you from cussing.
02/12/09
Top CriticAn example of the very worst kind of documentary film-making. The picture contains no insight, no research and no etymological answers. It is simply a string of choppily edited interviews with comedians, porn actors and the morally outraged.
02/12/09
Top CriticSteve Anderson's rowdy and contentious new documentary pits the upholders of propriety against the proponents of free expression in a battle over just one word.
11/10/06
Top CriticIt's going to be an entertaining and successful big-city date movie, let's say that. But it's essentially a mishmash of random ingredients, not very systematically presented and skewed to flatter its audience's presumed enlightenment.
11/08/06
What's great about the documentary is the mix of people Anderson interviews for opinions and insights.
12/10/06
Far smarter fun with filth, though, can be found in The Aristocrats.
11/17/06
Top CriticThe most dishonest thing about this ranting montage of a movie is its technique of panning between opposing viewpoints to simulate debate, when in fact each of the more than 35 celebrities was separately interviewed.
12/01/06
There are a host of conservative souls given wide berth, including singer Pat Boone, who hilariously explains how he uses his own surname in exclamatory fashion.
11/18/06
The more steely and mischievous should have a blast with this creative and revealing, virtually unmarqueeable documentary.
11/09/06
As funny and cathartic as the word it celebrates, and nearly as perversely shock-happy.
11/09/06
Top CriticThis film is probably not going to change anyone's view about this particular word, but it is an interesting, informative, and often entertaining take on the subject.
03/09/07
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