Adam's Apples (2005)

Powerful

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Another movie written by Anders Thomas Jensen and this time he's also a director. Like in most of his previous movies, he's assembling Danish best acting trio Mikkelsen, Thomsen and Lie Kaas(a minor role).A comedy that will make you laugh for 90 min and you could easily watch this movie 10 times and laugh at every scene over and over. Magnificently showing relationship between Mikkelsen and Thomsen characters which are so different at the begging of the movie. A neo- nazi theme is present only for even more comic situations not to insult anyone. Nicolas Bro and Ali Kazim fit into very good and helped this movie to be one of the best if not the best Danish comedy.

Mix a Neo Nazi in "recovery", a country priest fighting Satan, a religious terrorist out his country of approved homophobic origins, an obese recovering alcoholic, a medical doctor all snarky science and bellicose cruelty, and a pregnant woman who may be giving birth to a genetically "problematic" child and what do you get: ADAMS APPLES. Every single person in the film is confronting a force field of GOOD vs EVIL from their own point of view, as black comedy. There's the apple tree from Eden's garden filled with worms, fire, lightening, destruction and an apple pie. If only Adam the Neo Nazi can complete his task of recovery and make one. I laughed out loud so many times wondering how these actors could deliver their lines deadpan!! It was like being in an AA meeting with the Borgia. But the biggest surprise of the whole story, amongst many, is that Adam, the Neo Nazi, begins to look like the most sane person in the group. The film is ripped from todays headlines but was made in 2005. Make it a companion piece to "Dogville" to get the down home version of the same issues, or "The Northerners" to get the Dutch version.I give it my highest rating for satire in an age that has lost the ability to appreciate the tongue in cheek, cheek of it all. Aren't you glad we're just film fanatics, instead of any of the other life forms now growing on the planet. Be proud of yourself be very, very proud.

Weird Danish film. Sub–titled. Danish doesn't sound like anything in English.Man, I thought we Swedes were dark. A Neo–Nazi is paroled to the custody of a devout Lutheran Minister. The minister brags of his prior successes with a drunken rapist and a hardened armed robber, who continued to stay with him after their paroles and rehabilitation. He asks the Neo–Nazi to set any goal. The Neo–Nazi jokingly suggests he'll bake a pie from the apple tree when they are ripe. The Neo-Nazi thinks the minister is delusional and decides to break him. The minister thinks every problem is just a test from the devil.Normally black humour isn't funny, but we laughed till tears repeatedly. A character gets a massive bullet wound to the head, and the doctor said, "That's what we call a Half–Kennedy."

"Let's stop with the accusations. It was an old cat. He just happened to fall down while we were shooting."There are dark comedies. There are pitch black comedies. And then, there's Adam's Apples.If you want to watch a movie that takes some of the most depressing, horrible things you can think of, and makes them absolutely hilarious, this is the movie for you.I won't spoil much of the story, as watching what unexpectedly happens throughout is one of the pleasures of the movie. It begins with a priest named Ivan driving an unrepentant neo-Nazi named Adam from prison to the church where he will be performing his community service. Ivan gives Adam the choice of one goal to set for himself to complete, before he leaves. Ivan, completely uncaring, chooses to make an apple pie from the apple tree outside the church, once they are ripe.From there, things quickly get out of hand. Let's just say that the sensitive need not apply. I recommend Adam's Apples to people with a dark sense of humor, who are fine with laughing at incredibly inappropriate (yet incredibly amusing) things. This movie was made for people like you and me. I'm not referring to low-brow humor. This is a different animal. An utterly unique (as far as my experience goes), intelligent comedy that ultimately brings sunshine forth from some of the darkest clouds you've ever seen (both figuratively and literally).