His show on MTV may have pretty much fizzled out and his last big movie role in “Road Trip” was nothing special, but Tom Green has showed he can definitely entertain in his first leading role in “Freddy Got Fingered.”

If you take out about five or six scenes – like Green chewing off an umbilical cord and swinging a baby over his head, or when he jerks off the elephant and the horse – “Freddy” wouldn’t be too bad.

Green plays Gord, a 28-year-old goof-ball with dreams of becoming an animator. After one unsuccessful trip to Los Angeles to pursue his career, Gord returns home with the mission of bettering his animation talents.

Along with meeting a nice girl in a wheelchair (she likes to have her legs beaten with a bamboo stick), Gord is constantly battling his father who doesn’t believe in his animation and wants him to get a job.

To get a little revenge for the constant lecturing, Gord claims that his father fingers his little brother Freddy (Eddie Kaye Thomas, “American Pie”) and gets him in trouble.

While sitting at home all day, Gord finds things to pass the time that really don’t make much sense in the movie, such as putting a suit on backwards and calling himself the backwards man, or tying sausages to his fingers and playing a keyboard.

These are lame attempts to capture Green’s off-the-wall humor that made the “The Tom Green Show” a success. But screenplay writers Green and Derek Harvie are missing what really works.

Green is a funny actor and performer, you don’t need to have him sucking a cow’s udder or climbing all around the cheese sandwich factory to be funny.

All Green needs to do to be funny is deliver funny lines and be a smart-ass like many comedians. His acting is solid as he appears comfortable and believable on-screen.

Rip Torn (“Men in Black”) plays Gord’s father, and he is equally as wacky. Much like Green’s performance, there are times when Torn does something so off-the-wall that it distracts from the movie.

Harland Williams (the murderer/hitchhiker in “There’s Something About Mary”) is Gord’s friend in “Freddy” but doesn’t really stick out as being funny like he has been in the past – probably a deliberate move to keep all the attention on Green.

Gord’s girlfriend is played by Marisa Coughlan (“Untamed Heart”) and is really the only other funny performance in the movie. Her cuteness mixed with disgusting habits is a funny twist to “Freddy.”

This movie is a conglomeration of scenes meant to draw shock value with a story lying somewhere underneath. If this formula was reversed and the story and acting were the main focus, “Freddy Got Fingered” would be a lot better.

But if you’re a fan of Green, check this movie out. And if you think you’re sick of him and his humor, there will still be some things worth laughing at, but not much.

And if you can make it out of the theater before the ending – do it.

** 1/2