Anderson's jumpy editing fails to cover up the fact that he only has 30 good minutes of material here.
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12/16/06
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
The inclusion of the porn footage and supposedly comical cartoons (by Bill Plympton) don't really add anything to the film. In fact, they're shockingly irrelevant.
12/15/06
What's great about the documentary is the mix of people Anderson interviews for opinions and insights.
12/10/06
Anderson's glib approach is to the movie's advantage, allowing anything profound to seem unexpected.
12/08/06
But in the end, F*CK is at most a compendium of opinions and examples, and never feels like a story.
12/01/06
As a history of the ultimate epithet, F--- falls somewhat short, tracing its use to the 15th century but failing to pin down its origins. It's on surer ground as a free-speech quasi-polemic, with its talking-head debate format.
12/01/06
It doesn't all cohere and it doesn't make any point that you couldn't have predicted before it began. There's a sense of self-satisfied naughtiness to the film that undercuts any claims it can make to being transgressive.
12/01/06
The 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
But F*** gives short shrift to a question that many moviegoers may well ponder: How, exactly, has this word become a substitute for wit, or, in many movies, for dialogue?
12/01/06
If anything, the most vivid impression created by the movie is how much fun the word's use can potentially be and how its power is inevitably emboldened in direct proportion to the forces of decency lined up against it.
12/01/06
... It's a mere 90-some minutes long; it only feels like seven hours.
11/30/06
... 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
Keeps a buoyant tone and a fast pace, flitting from one angle to another rapidly and including a lot of raucous humor along the way.
11/29/06
Obviously this film is going to be rated NC-17, to protect children who have already used the term hundreds of times a month, from hurting their dear little ears with the horrid profanity.
11/18/06
... 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
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
Tried and true bad arguments are advanced.
11/17/06
Far smarter fun with filth, though, can be found in The Aristocrats.
11/17/06
Top CriticAt the end, you think, 'The filmmakers blew 90 minutes, and probably a couple years of their lives, worrying about this?'
11/16/06
On the whole Anderson's film feels a decade or two behind the culture's cutting edge.
11/16/06
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