Fred: The Movie is the first movie in the movie trilogy. It follows the titular character as he tries to track down his crush, Judy, after she moves away.
It was written by David A. Goodman, directed by Clay Weiner, and produced by Brian Robbins. It features Lucas Cruikshank as Fred and Pixie Lott as Judy in their acting debuts, as well as Jennette McCurdy as Bertha, Jake Weary as Kevin, John Cena as Fred's dad, and Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Fred's mom.
Filming began November 9, 2009, and wrapped up December 20, 2009. The movie was released on Nickelodeon on September 18, 2010, and the DVD was released October 5, 2010 as well as streaming media such as Netflix.
The movie had over 7.6 million viewers during its premiere, making it the second highest viewed TV cable movie of 2010 across all networks. Despite this, it was universally panned by critics and most audiences alike, holding an impressive 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered one of the worst movies ever made.
In recent years, the film has gained a cult following throughout the online community.
Plot[]
Fred believes himself to be cool and a good singer. He is in love with a girl named Judy, and is devastated to see her performing a romantic duet with Kevin during a music class. Following this, Fred aspires to one day sing his own duet with Judy. After an attempt to dig his way to her house to avoid harassment by Kevin, Fred discovers that she has moved. Thus, Fred embarks on a journey to find Judy's new house and sing with her there.
During the quest, Fred encounters myriad characters including an anthropomorphic deer; a bedraggled childhood friend who had gotten lost in the forest years earlier (known as Little Evan Weiss); a neighborhood girl named Bertha; and a boy named Derf with a personality diametrically opposite to his own.
Eventually arriving at Judy's home, Fred discovers that she is hosting a party to which he was not invited. Fred is bullied by her guests for his poor social standing at school, and his eccentric personality. Kevin then shoves a pizza onto Fred's shirt, causing him to vomit on Judy's party dress (accidentally). Miserable, Fred leaves the house and is infuriated to find that Kevin has posted a video of him vomiting on Judy on YouTube.
In an attempt to get revenge, Fred decides to throw a party of his own to which no one will be invited. To deceive others into believing that he has held a spectacular house party, Fred invites Bertha over, where they costume mannequins in different outfits and clown around while videoing the proceedings. Fred alters the video of the fake party and posts it on the internet, whereupon his peers are misled into believing that Fred and Bertha actually held an extraordinary party. Following this, Judy visits Fred's house and asks if the two may sing together, and Fred accepts the request.
Cast[]
- Lucas Cruikshank as Fred Figglehorn / Derf
- Jennette McCurdy as Bertha
- Jake Weary as Kevin
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Hilda Figglehorn
- Pixie Lott as Judy
- John Cena as Fred's Dad
- Stephanie Courtney as Kevin's Mom
- Kevin Olson as Evan Weiss
- Mak Kriksciun as young Evan Weiss
- Gary Anthony Williams as Laundromat manager
- Chris Wylde as Dam Security Guard
- Oscar Nunez as Lorenzo
- Jordan Black as Gary
- Jack Coughlan as Young Fred
Sequels[]
Two sequels were later released, Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred and Fred 3: Camp Fred.
Transcript[]
Full transcript here.
Trivia[]
- The UK version cuts the following from the movie:
- Fred hitting the wire while digging and Kevin breaks his arm.
- "Oh my god, Gary! He's a gangbanger!"
- "Mom! I'm on the crapper!"
- Fred putting a magazine in a blender.
- Fred's dad wrestling Fred.
- This is the only onscreen appearance of Judy; due to Pixie Lott being unavailable for future appearances, Judy was written out of the next movie and never mentioned again in the film trilogy and the show.
- Four endings were written for the movie, and one of them originally had Fred end up with Bertha instead of Judy.
- A Fred episode, "Fred's Got Talent", was included on the DVD as a bonus feature.
- The movie was made independently and fully funded by Brian Robbins, so that it could be completed in a timely manner and without the influence of Nickelodeon. It was then screened to Nickelodeon, who officially distributed and owned the movie and would work on the sequels and series.[1]
- According to the DVD commentary, the scene where part of the "Lawrence Middle School" sign falls off of the facade of the school was an unscripted accident, and the sign almost fell onto Lucas Cruikshank. When it was added to the film, he was edited out of the shot.
- One of Lucas Cruikshank's older sisters appears in the background of the party scene at Judy's house.[2]
- Dallas Lovato also appears during the same scene. According to Cruikshank, even though she only had two lines, she had a bigger trailer than he did since she is related to Demi Lovato.[3]
- Jesse Daley, Cruikshank's stand-in for the movie, also makes a cameo appearance in the background of the scene.