The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice.
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04/12/07
Adam's Apples (2007)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:24
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Good and evil collide with interesting results in Adam's Apples, a dark Biblical allegory that’s alternatively funny and shocking.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church, Adam, a middle-aged neo-Nazi, is warmly welcomed by the cheerful vicar, Ivan. Although Adam is crude, full of hostility, and clearly... [More]
Starring: Nicolaj Kaas, Ali Kazim, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Reviews for Adam's Apples
Top CriticStrong direction, solid acting, and a script as crisp and juicy as freshly picked apples. A solid "A" film.
04/11/07
Jensen doesn't pretend it's cute and/or harmless -- there's a fascinating ambiguity to the happy fantasy laid over the misery and failure.
06/12/06
This Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark. The film's humor offers an odd blend of subversively sly narrative mixed with bursts of sudden, sharp violence and goofy slapstick.
06/01/07
Pushes the boundaries of weirdness, yet manages to be a moving look into faith and redemption.
03/22/07
Adam’s Apples strives for black comedy, but winds up being neither funny nor spiritually enlightening.
03/17/07
I just wasn't, it turns out, the ideal audience for man's allegorical way of dealing with the demonic weightiness of the world.
02/24/07
The path that Jensen plots is one full of the improbable and unlikely, but never the impossible.
03/17/07
Adam’s Apples slams together good and evil for maximum black-comedy impact.
08/01/06
Some will see this as a movie about how we’re all God’s children. I saw only the misanthropic fulminations of Jensen’s runaway ego.
04/12/07
Peculiar but oddly winsome fable about the spiritual journeys of two diametrically opposed characters.
03/16/07
A film that asks us to have a pretty high tolerance of easy stereotypes and most of its comedy comes because you're not sure what else to do but laugh. When the ironic reversal kicks in, the film turns semi-serious and gets, if anything, a little boring.
05/08/08
A noxious, flippant mix of snark and biblical allegory.
03/13/07
As intelligent as it is entertaining, and it's the source of great good humor.
03/16/07
The actors play this darkly funny material as if they are in a deadly serious Shakespearean drama, highlighting the situation's many absurdities
02/05/08
This oddball story is more than a one-joke concept. Its characters are sometimes cruel, sometimes sweet, but always recognizably human.
05/11/07
Features some nice humor, dry as an Empire apple left to wither and brown at room temperature, its juice sucked out but still pleasant to the taste.
03/05/07
For most of its length it's wonderfully wicked -- Jensen actually forces us to sympathize with the neo-Nazi's attitude toward the minister -- but the ending unfortunately mitigates the nastiness ...
04/12/07
With the most bizarre characters we have seen in film for quite some time, this strange comedy leaves the viewer constantly off- balance.
03/06/07
Director Jensen (who co-scripted After the Wedding) breaks away from Dogme to make a more stylized film, using a controlled surface that disarms us with surreal happenings and well-executed absurdity.
04/01/07
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