The film was panned upon release, with many critics considering it to be one of the worst films of all time. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 10% based on reviews from 94 critics, with an average rating of 3.15/10. The site's consensus reads "Unfavorably comparing it with such infamously bad titles as "Battlefield Earth", a significant number of critics are calling Tom Green's extreme gross-out comedy the worst movie they have ever seen." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, the film has an "Overwhelming dislike" rating score of 13 out of 100 based on 25 reviews. CinemaScore polls revealed the average grade filmgoers gave "Freddy Got Fingered" was C-, on an A+ to F scale.