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Green Butchers, The

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Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Foreign
Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen
Directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 3, 2004
DVD: May 17, 2005
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: Denmark
Language(s): Danish / German (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: R for language, disturbing images and drug use
Starring Line Kruse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, Aksel Erhardtsen, Bodil Jørgensen, Ole Thestrup, and Lily Weiding
This comedy about two friends who start their own butcher shop combines the trite, the morbid and the amusing. (Newmarket Films)
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What The Critics Said
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LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
While the acting is top-notch, the real star of the film is the script.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Mikkelsen and Kaas are up to the demands of their roles, revealing impressive range and skill.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Stina Chyn
A dark comedy whose story is propelled by shock but sustained by issues of love and forgiveness.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Nelson Pressley
Jensen's tone is admirably dry, and the film offers its pleasures through small, writerly details.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Pitch-perfect performances bring it all home, particularly that of Danish leading man Mikkelsen.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Neither rare nor particularly well done. If you're looking for Danish meatballs served on dark wry, though, you could do worse.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Black comedies don't get much darker than this.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The result isn't exactly funny, just profoundly peculiar and even occasionally, unexpectedly poignant.
Read Full Review >Variety Gunnar Rehlin
Will be either a turn-on or turn-off, depending on one's sense of humor.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
It's a clammy, odd duck of a movie, a black comedy that seems strangely content with merely being morbid.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Benjamin Strong
The two leads capably humanize an overdetermined screenplay that often fumbles with bludgeoning symbolism and rank sentimentality.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It's the sick humor that's most appealing about this odd little Danish film.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
A movie in search of a theme. Svend and Bjarne aren't bad or uninteresting characters, and certainly the two talented actors playing them are inherently watchable. But there's too little meat on these bones.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Should have been either darker or funnier. Or both.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
A flawed black comedy about two buddies who open a butcher's shop in a small Danish town.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The ghoulish tone and Mikkelsen's glassy performance smother any laughs.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Neither funny nor outrageous nor horrifying nor conventionally affecting.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
j h gave it a 5:
Det er sweeny todd i dansk.
