An Absolute Gem!!!
Added 11/15/2008
I picked up this movie at a local pawn shop and had low expectations. Was I ever wrong! This is an absolute gem of a movie. Certainly my new favorite. Other reviewers have waxed eloquent on the virtues contained therein and additional commentary would be superfluous. Just let me say that this movie is a "must see". If you can watch this movie and not be entertained I feel for you. For those of you skittish about watching foreign films this movie will cure you of you phobia. Enjoy!
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Marinade's Just Right
Added 10/27/2008
This is quite a twister, even granted its revisiting the familiar territory of, Delicatessen. The straighteness, the dourness of these Danes give it an extra dryness that had me in fits. Everything this team of actors and director touches is worthy of a visit...Adam's Apple, Open Heart etc. The scripts are tight and convoluted, the morphing of real and surreal has a compelling edge.The editing is tight. And you'll not see better acting anywhere as I write.
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Sweeney Todd with a happy ending
Added 5/16/2008
I saw this movie on a lark with some friends of mine. We were bored, were at the local video store when they had nothing worth watching, saw that it was a Dutch comedy about cannibalism and thought, "Oh, yeah, we've GOT to see this." We had no expectations of this film. Turns out we picked a true gem. One of the things about this film is that it's funny when you don't expect it to be, No warning, just BAM! It's funny all of a sudden!
Foreign movies aren't for everyone, so I recommend renting first before buying it. If you wind up liking it, you'll probably see where I'm coming from with this review.
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The Green Butchers
Added 8/28/2006
I love it when a skilled group of actors takes an absurdly funny situation and plays it absolutely straight and serious, without mugging for the camera, without pausing so you can laugh, and most certainly without a laugh track. Dark humor? I suppose, since it has murder and stuff. Svend and Bjarne open a butcher shop in this film, which the cover blurb calls "deceptively simple and wickedly funny." Yeah, that's what it is. It's Danish, the director has a strong Academy Award resume, and I don't care. I just know I enjoyed it immensely. It also features some very clever dialog, and you know I love word play.
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Finger lickin good feelgood comedy
Added 7/9/2006
You could call "The Green Butchers" a cross between "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and an episode of "Three's Company" in that, as someone from the Old Country would say, this is a film built around a bloody misunderstanding. Going into it any further would, to pun, spoil the fun. "Butchers" doesn't exactly chart new territory -- "Eating Raoul," and later, "Delicatessen" took care of that (you could actually go farther back, to "Soylent Green," in which people as food is used to elicit horror, but one has only to recall how Heston's thrift store couch-inspired slacks were hiked nipple-high to view it in a humorous tint). Cannibal humor works so well as a vehicle for satire because it is the most rudimentary metaphor: Consumer consuming consumer. Here, given the ease with which a freezer is used to commit murder, and the butchers' quick shift from disgust to dismissal of their actions, the victims are mere props. "Butchers," however, is a departure from the form as a black comedy with a heart. It's foremost a buddy movie with redemption at its core. Two misfits berated day in and day out by their butcher boss take a huge risk to walk out and start up their own shop -- and find they have what it takes to become the toast of the town.
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