More of a TV documentary than a movie, but there's enough good stuff here to keep you from cussing.
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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 CriticA moderately amusing documentary about the second most offensive word in the English language.
02/12/09
It's all reasonable but unoriginal stuff.
02/13/09
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
Smug, shallow, repetitive, unilluminating and rarely funny.
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
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’.
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
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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
F--- branches out into a discussion of decency, ranging from David Caruso's bare butt on "NYPD Blue" to Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction. At this point, the movie has lost its initial focus.
11/09/06
... manages to strip some of the mystique from the forbidden word, and in the end, despite some road bumps, is a satisfying film.
11/30/06
The movie doesn't add much to the culture wars, beyond histrionics from a lot of people who take their causes too f***ing seriously.
11/09/06
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07/14/07
Anderson's glib approach is to the movie's advantage, allowing anything profound to seem unexpected.
12/08/06
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04/23/09
... 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.
11/18/06
If you're wondering how Steve Anderson managed to make a 93-minute documentary about the ultimate four-letter word, which uses the epithet over 800 times, you're underestimating his capacity to entertain and educate in roughly equal doses.
11/16/06
Far smarter fun with filth, though, can be found in The Aristocrats.
11/17/06
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