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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
Despite 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…
It's all reasonable but unoriginal stuff.
Top CriticA moderately amusing documentary about the second most offensive word in the English language.
Smug, shallow, repetitive, unilluminating and rarely funny.
An 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.
Top CriticThe 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’.
Top CriticMore of a TV documentary than a movie, but there's enough good stuff here to keep you from cussing.
Top CriticThis could have been far more illuminating, challenging, or at the very least entertaining.
Top CriticAs 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.
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.
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What's great about the documentary is the mix of people Anderson interviews for opinions and insights.
The fact that one comes out of the theatre wanting to wash the director's mouth out with soap shows what a missed opportunity **** turns out to be.
In terms of entertainment, the movie is consistently amusing, often hilarious, and energetic in its editing.
Top CriticPenetrating, revelatory, thought-provoking and entertaining.
Top Critic... manages to strip some of the mystique from the forbidden word, and in the end, despite some road bumps, is a satisfying film.
never really entertains the idea of the word's gentle decline into general usage
Anderson's film should tour as part of an encapsulating trilogy with The Aristocrats & This Film Is Not Yet Rated into the heartland & beyond as an important statement of where we've come and the f***storm we're headed for.
As funny and cathartic as the word it celebrates, and nearly as perversely shock-happy.
Top Critic... it seems like a real neat way to get that word onto movie posters and into lots of movie reviews all over America, thus vexing arbiters of taste and propriety with at least some measure of academic credibility.
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