The Green Butchers
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Movie Reviews of The Green Butchers
Movie Review: It's all in the Marinade, baby!
Summary: 4 Stars
A thoroughly enjoyable romp into the gastronomical endeavors of two every enterprising (albeit sullen) butchers who market their "special" marinated chicky-chicken to the neighbors of their village.
And just how do you get the money to start your own butcher shop from scratch? Well it ain't cheap!
You turn off the life support system of your ailing twin-brother and collect on the insurance money that has been in limbo for the past 10 years while he has been withering away in a coma.
Finally armed with the moola to leave their lackluster jobs slaving away in their bosses butcher shop and not getting credit due for their incredible sausages and marinade, Svend and Bjarne launch their own shop.
Before they even open for their first day of business, a routine repair job goes sour, when Svend accidentally offs the freezer repairman by mistakenly locking him in. At least we know the freezer works now!
And if that weren't good enough, Svend hacks off the repairman's leg and sells it under pressure to produce a "special" meat that the finicky villagers will like. It is not until the Rotary Club dinner where the meal is a smashing success that they enjoy real success (all due to Svend and Bjarne's special chicky-chicken). Once the word is out the villagers have got to have more! And the pressure is on!
A great flick that you can laugh all the way through, non-stop shenanigans drawn out in that distinctly surreal European style. You are watching a sophisticated and gruesome black comedy that will make you want MORE. And yes....finally a horror movie with a happy ending.
Movie Review: Finger lickin good feelgood comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
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.Movie Review: Deliciously Dark...
Summary: 4 Stars
Pretty entertaining dark comedy about two socially inept dudes who start up their own butcher shop, but things go wrong... really wrong. I don't want to get too into the plot because I don't want to spoil anything... but it's guaranteed to intrigue. It's one of those films where the situation the character's find themselves in gets progressively worse and the movie goes on, until things reach a breaking point.
It also has a slightly different tone from similar movies I've seen, maybe because it's from Scandinavia... but the overall feel and delivery of the plot just seemed very unique compared to most American dark comedies. I greatly enjoyed it, and recommend it if you're in the mood for something different and little darker. 4/5 stars.
Movie Review: Where is that ferral sex God, Tristan?
Summary: 4 Stars
Having become obesessed with Mads Mikkelsen as Tristan(King
Arthur)I wanted to see what other movies the "sexiest man in Denmark" had on the market. Girls, if you are looking for that Danish pastry ,you won't find him this flick. You will find a dark comedy with a stellar preformance by Mads.I really had to watch this flick 3 times to really appreciate it. Ithink I was expecting a Tristan looking actor instead of the balding, middle aged insane butcher on the screen. I'm not quite sure if our American leading men,and Mads is the leading leading man in Denmark, would be even be offered a role such as this. Brad Pitt could never pull it off.
I have just ordered 4 more movies starring Mads Mikkelsen. I admit it, I'm smitten.
Movie Review: Danish Treasure
Summary: 4 Stars
This tale from the kingdom of Denmark is all about Svend and Bjarne, two butchers who find themselves fired, they then open their own little meat market and after a shaking start of business, Svend discovers that the customers has a very special taste for a very special kind of meat.
From here the tale takes us from laughter to nail biting horror as we get kicked into a world of morbidity and murder.
Svend is played by Mads Mikkelsen, whom you best know as Tristan of "King Arthur" and recently as Le Chiffre in the newest James Bond movie "Casino Royale".
Great entertainment for your money.