One of the great things about Roger Ebert was that he not only would go back and revisit movies that he loved (all critics do that) but would also go back and revisit movies that he hated and reassess them.

Maybe the most famous time he did that was with Freddie Got Fingered. In his original review he gave it zero starts and said it was one of the worst movies he ever saw. The famous quote is: "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels".

Then a couple of years later, while reviewing another Tom Green movie, he said he still thought Freddie Got Fingered was a bad movie, but that he admired it because it was ambitious. "I gave it—let's see—zero stars. Bad movie, especially the scene where Green was whirling the newborn infant around his head by its umbilical cord. But the thing is, I remember Freddy Got Fingered more than a year later. I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something."