Adam's Apples [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] [2008]

Everything in this film is so sad and hopeless that it becomes funny. A great dark comedy, it`s brilliance definitely comes from the cast, in particular Mads Mikkelsen and Ulrich Thomsen. The only one thing is that some of the English subtitles haven`t been translated correctly but you can still follow it without any trouble.

One of the funniest films i have ever seen. The Coen Brothers crossed with Quentin Tarantino. Very Dark, Brutally funny, but very uplifting in a strange sort of way. Mads Mikkelsen is outstanding in a superb cast. I cannot recommend this film enough.

This film was recommended to me as a "classic". Not having watched much Scandinavian film in the past, I was very sceptical but ordered it any way from Amazon. What a treat! A fabulous film, brilliantly acted & directed and delivered to me in just a couple of days by the excellant Amazon team.

Great film

Entertaining if not a little weird

This is a very good movie : funny, philosophical, excellent actors. There is suspense as well, you will laugh a lot !

Ex-convict Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), the evil incarnate Neo-Nazi with a short fuse, is sent to serve out his community service at the idyllic church centre in the countryside run by an irksome priest named Ivan (Mads Mikkelson), who sees an alternative reality through rose tinted specks thanks to a brain tumour the size of a volleyball; as described by his whacky doctor with a diabolical sense of humour for all things perverse. Gunnar, the rapist and raving alcoholic, and Khalid, the armed robber/terrorist, have convinced Ivan that they're reformed characters and opted to stay on at the vicarage but neither one has any intentions of redeeming themselves when Ivan's idiosyncratic behaviour is so easily manipulated.Once Adam is shown to his living quarters he makes one adjustment: replacing the cross of Jesus with a framed picture of Hitler. During a brief interview shortly after Adam's arrival, Ivan asks him to come up with a single goal after the completion of which he will be free; he sarcastically opts to bake an apple pie. Neither Ivan or Adam suspects the ensuing cavalcade of crimes, plagues, horrors, and spiritual combat that will follow; where actions always seem to have strange, unintended consequences, and human personifications of good and evil squabble like cat and dog.Incidentally, the scene with Lambert the cat had me laughing my man boobs off for ten solid minutes: it was sick, twisted and deliriously funny. Ulrich Thomsen's superbly understated performance as Adam is all subtle facial expressions with precision timing whilst Mads Mikkelson delivers his "man without a clue" lines in such a dry manor, making this very dark comedy full of taboo topics and subject matter an absolute riot for any fanatic of this type of questionable humour. The ending is very cliché and predictable but it doesn't spoil the immense fun factor, in fact, it's arguably the best Danish flick i've ever seen - highly recommended.

The black humour in this film is just too dark at times and i found it hard to enjoy and rather depressing. The same director and some actors have appeared in "Flickering lights" and "The green butchers". However those two films are much more enjoyable even though the do also tackle some dark subject matter at times. Adam is a neo-nazi who has been sent to spend time with an oddball man of the cloth and his other residents. All the characters are off the wall in their own way but it is Mads Mikklesen as the holy man who has the most depressing story. Add into the mix more skinheads, an apple tree, a thieving ex-tennis player who enjoys rape and an immigrant who has a vendetta against a petroleum company to get the full picture. I felt this was the weakest of the 3 films and just too dark in places whilst the comedy is blacker than black. Mikklesen as always is fantastic in his role as the odd ball who must hold them all together. However i would advise "The green butchers" and "Flickering lights" ahead of this.