In this movie about Fred, who is now a 15-year-old teenager who has a crush on Judy, the girl next door, she moves away and he goes on a quest to meet her at her new house and he sometimes sees his bully Kevin, and other zany things happen along his journey.
Two sequels including Fred 2: Night Of The Living Fred and Fred 3: Camp Fred followed afterwards, in addition to Fred: The Show, which premiered a year later on Nickelodeon.
Tropes in Fred: The Movie
- Age Lift: Everyone in the film is aged up 10 years. Fred in particular is 15 years old.
- Anger Montage: Fred furiously trashes the living room while screaming maniacally when he learns that Judy has moved away. By the time he cools down, he is then shown clearing his mess.
- Ambiguously Gay: Gary and Lorenzo, the pet shop owners Fred tries to steal the Pomeranian from.
- Ascended Extra: Everyone else who were each The Voice in the YouTube (before being animated later) series become seen characters who are part of the movie.
- Special mention goes to Bertha, was a one-shot character with a completely different personality and character aim in the YouTube series.
- Bonus points for Kevin, who goes on to be the villain again in the following films afterwards.
- Adaptational Nice Girl: Bertha has a completely different personality than how she was in the YouTube series. Although she is passive-aggressive, is the only one who genuinely cares for Fred.
- Armed with Pepper Spray: Lorenzo, one of the owners of the pet store threatens to spray Fred because he’s stealing a Pomeranian but ends up spraying Gary, his partner instead.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: During Fred’s tantrum, he flips tables, tears things apart, throws pillows, and plays bike horns and a two notes on a little piano over and over.
- Berserk Button: Judy being with Kevin is an idea Fred cannot stand.
- Big Damn Movie: This film acts as one.
- Black Comedy: Fred thinks a Spanish speaking man is an “alien trying to ruin his brain”.
- Broken Record:
- Fred’s “Uh huh! Yeah! Uh huh! Yeah! Uh huh! Yeah! Uh huh! Yeah!”
- The owner of the laundromat joins in with “Uh huh! No! Uh huh! No! Uh huh! No!”
- She gimme that beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!”
- When Fred replays the part where he vomits on Judy when seeing the video on YouTube.
- Fred’s “Uh huh! Yeah! Uh huh! Yeah! Uh huh! Yeah! Uh huh! Yeah!”
- Character Title: Fred: The Movie
- Comical Overreacting: Fred’s entire dialogue is him overreacting and screaming everything out loud.
- Bonus points for when he more so he acts this way when he learns that Judy moved and tries to call 911 multiple times, being that desperate to find her.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Fred imagines having Kevin arrested for singing with Judy in class.
- Disguised in Drag: Fred briefly tries to leave the house disguised as a woman to get past Kevin.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: This can be said at the end when Judy goes to Fred’s house, apologizes to him, and they sing together as a “reward” for the party video, and Kevin bursts into tears from jealousy.
- Everyone Has Standards: Judy is still dismissive of Fred but she does not take it well when Kevin bullies him.
- Excuse Plot: The whole movie was a huge excuse for Fred to get out of the house than to visit to Judy. His journey, ironically is him going around Judy’s house than towards it.
- Gave Up Too Soon: Judy calls for Fred to come back right after he leaves the party in devastation after the embarrassment he faced.
- Get Out!: Fred is kicked out by the owner of a laundromat because he’s in his underwear, and doing a silly chanting routine of “Uh huh! Yeah!”
- Hated by All: Everyone except Bertha. Almost everyone dislikes Fred to an obsessive degree.
- Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It: When Fred learns the Pomeranian costs $795, and obviously not having the money for it, decides he must slip the Pomeranian onto his shirt and this almost gets him pepper sprayed by Lorenzo.
- Hypocrite: Fred doesn’t want to take off his outfit at the pool because it’s “too much sex appeal” but at the laundromat he does sings a hilariously bad song because he thinks he looks sexy.
- Imagine Spot: Fred has cheesy daydreams every two minutes throughout the film.
- Innocently Insensitive: Fred thinks the Spanish-speaking man is an alien and yells at him not to ruin his brain. Thankfully, this was not done out of maliciousness but naivety.
- I Want My Mommy!: Kevin slips on his treadmill, breaks his arm, and cries for his mom.
- Jerkass
- Kevin is Fred’s bully who terrorizes Fred on a daily basis.
- The laundromat owner. He kicks out Fred because he’s wearing his underwear while washing his clothes.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- Bertha is sassy and passive-aggressive, but she really cares about Fred.
- Fred himself is often angry and lashes out at others, but means well and only because of what he puts up with by his classmates.
- DERF is passive-aggressive too, but he sometimes comes to help Fred.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Kevin, Fred’s bully, breaks his arm and faces quite a bit of injury and misfortune throughout the film, he is the victim of Fred’s revenge fantasies about him. He later the first person to be “not-invited” to Fred’s “party” but it’s not that he doesn’t deserve it.
- Manchild: Fred in this movie series and the brief show, acts the same as he did when he was six, but aged up ten years.note
- Misplaced Retribution: Fred starts “dis-inviting” strangers and bystanders during his dis-invitation spree.
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: As much of a jerk he can be, Fred can be nice to others when you get to know him.
- Overly Long Gag:
- After thinking the Spanish speaking man is “ruining his brain”, Fred goes onto a trance of screaming everywhere he goes in numerous locations including on a rollercoaster, and takes a bathroom break before coming out to continue scream again until he gets to the dam.
- In Fred’s vision of meeting Judy at her house, in a very cheesy way, they sing “Do Rae Mi” and begin to kiss while repeatedly singing the “La” part while smoke fills the room.
- In the fake party video, Fred pukes into the microwave and the footage is repeated for a while.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: Fred is morally ambiguous in his actions here in the movie than in the YouTube series. He stalks Judy who never knew he existed until then, seeks revenge against his classmates and Kevin, tries to steal a Pomeranian from a pet store, left his friend behind in the woods during his childhood and did it again when he saw him, and purposely makes everyone feel jealous with his fake party video after he says everyone else is “not invited”. To make it worse, he never faces any repercussions for these things, but rather gets rewarded for it instead.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: “Little. Evan. Weiss………”
- Precision F-Strike: Kevin when his mom calls him down to see Fred.Kevin: Mom! I’m on the crapper!
- Random Events Plot: The movie contains abrupt moments that Fred comes across, and they each happen during his journey.
- Sdrawkcab Speech: DERF is Fred’s imaginary friend who guides him, and he is the non-nerdy version of Fred himself and his name is “FRED” backwards.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Little Evan Weiss sees Fred again after all the years of being stuck in the woods, but Fred runs away from him, leaving poor Evan alone once more.
- Stalker with a Crush: Fred throughout the movie towards Judy. He goes on a quest to meet Judy although he never knew her, although they ran across each other on occasions. He ultimately stalks her and thinks she’s his girlfriend.
- Stylistic Suck: The fake party video full of obvious effects, props, and fake legs. Fred and Bertha make this entire video and upload to YouTube which works in fooling everyone.
- Tantrum Throwing: Fred throws a massive one when he learns Judy moved and destroys the entire living room in a hilarious screaming rampage, but cleans it up afterwards.
- Teens Are Monsters: As they are teenagers now, Kevin and his friends are this way to Fred and the other way around, as Fred is as much of a bully himself.
- Those Two Guys: Gary and Lorenzo, the owners of the pet store Fred tries to steal the Pomeranian were seen being always together.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Bertha and Judy respectively.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Bertha, who was a total bully in the YouTube series, here in the movie, is moody but is nice Fred and is the only one who helps him at all. She and Fred also make the party video.
- Trash the Set: Fred does this to his living room when he learns that Judy moved away. Once he's calmed down, he is then shown clearing up the mess he has created during his rampage.
- Uninvited to the Party: Fred spends half the movie on a quest to find Judy's new house, thinking she's either miserable or in danger. By the time he gets there, he finds her having a party he wasn't invited to, meaning he accidentally crashes. After being humiliated by his bully Kevin at said party with the footage posted online to boot, Fred seeks revenge by throwing his own party and making it clear to everyone that they are not invited to his party. However, when it comes to his friend Bertha, he decided to invite her as she was the only person who didn't think the video was funny, and the two of them throw such a great fake party that it makes the rest of the school feel jealous and desperate to get back on Fred's good side.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Little Evan Weiss, Fred’s childhood friend who disappeared into the woods, comes out when Fred is in the woods again, happy to see him. Fred runs way from him in fear and doesn’t help him come back to civilization.
- You Don't Look Like You: The other characters look different here, compared to their on-screen appearances in the YouTube series’ Art Shift.
- With exception to this being his head and hairstyle, Fred wears a white-and-yellow striped shirt with jeans and white shoes. In the YouTube series he wore a loose blue shirt, sweatpants or shorts, and his hair was messier.
- Judy has curly, and more white blonde hair.
- Kevin has a backwards cap with different hair.
- Fred’s mom went from Stacy's Mom to washed-out alcoholic.