A danish classic. Mads Mikkelsen is brilliant. Every line delivered by him is comic gold. Not sure how well it translates outside of DK. I guess we go for dark twisted humor sometimes.

I'm not sure if it's this really dark humour I don't quite undersand or if the story was, in fact, at times more disturbing than funny. Really enjoyed it at the start - in the first minute I was already loving Mads Mikkelsen's character and there was so much energy to the piece - but the further the plot unraveled, the stranger and unfunnier things got.

Nevertheless, some fantastic performances here - always a pleasure to see Mikkelsen and Lie Kass in the same film.

Wer das Skurrile und Groteske mag, Mads Mikkelsen als wirklich guten Schauspieler ansieht und dem skandinavischen Film etwas abgewinnen kann, für den dürfte "Dänische Delikatessen" ein Pflichtfilm sein. Wie schon bei "Adams Äpfel" oder auch der Millennium-Trilogie schaffen es die Skandinavier hier wieder, eine Atmosphäre im Film zu erschaffen, die man aus Hollywood schlichtweg nicht kennt.

It has a very absurd and dark sense of humour, and the two leads are hard to sympathize with. Still, the overall tone of the film is compelling, and includes quite a few funny scenes.
Also, Kaas Lie and Mikkelsen shine as the two butchers.
I like how the script doesn't judge them for their actions, and that they are "the good guys", as can be seen with the antagonist being casted as a pretty nasty guy.

An interesting Danish spin on the Sweeney Todd tale, starring the bad guy from Casino Royale with a receding hairline. Its not quite funny enough to qualify as a full-on comedy but Bjarne's brother Eigil is good for giggles.

I'm not sure if it's this really dark humour I don't quite undersand or if the story was, in fact, at times more disturbing than funny. Really enjoyed it at the start - in the first minute I was already loving Mads Mikkelsen's character and there was so much energy to the piece - but the further the plot unraveled, the stranger and unfunnier things got.

Nevertheless, some fantastic performances here - always a pleasure to see Mikkelsen and Lie Kass in the same film.

A danish classic. Mads Mikkelsen is brilliant. Every line delivered by him is comic gold. Not sure how well it translates outside of DK. I guess we go for dark twisted humor sometimes.

A dark comedy with a thoroughly weird performance from Mads Mikkelsen, The Green Butchers puts too little emphasis on the comedy. Mikkelsen's strange antisocial behavior does manage some nervous laughs, but overall the movie becomes too bogged down in plotting and odd twists to explore the conflict at its core.
As is typical in these movies, two disgruntled butchers open their own store only to accidentally kill and serve a hapless passerby. When people find the food delicious, their urge to kill grows and escalates to the point where you know they're going to be caught.
While funny at times, a lot of the movie just didn't try hard enough to break away from the clumsiness of the story. If not for MIkkelsen's realistic portrayal of an unrealistic character this may have fallen apart completely.

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Enjoyable enough but you know from the offset everything that's going to happen in this dark comedy,it was good to see Mads Mikkelsen in a different role in what he his usually associated with.

It has a very absurd and dark sense of humour, and the two leads are hard to sympathize with. Still, the overall tone of the film is compelling, and includes quite a few funny scenes.
Also, Kaas Lie and Mikkelsen shine as the two butchers.
I like how the script doesn't judge them for their actions, and that they are "the good guys", as can be seen with the antagonist being casted as a pretty nasty guy.

Vaguely in the style of Delicatessan, this oddball drama doesn't hit the heights of the former, despite some intersting characterisation, however the script is plodding and it seems to get an age to get anywhere.

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"This is a macabre black comedy, think of a Danish version of Sweeney Todd. All of the characters are played beautifully with quiet understatement - this is a great film."

For some reason I really didn't connect with this Danish film. It has its moments, but it seem dis-jolted and largely both uninteresting and unfunny. Really wish I could say differently, but I am unimpressed. That is not to say it is bad, just that it wasn't anywhere as good as I had hoped.