The Green Butchers

Starring:Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Line Kruse, Nicolas Bro, Aksel Erhardtsen, Bodil JÃ¸rgensen, Lily Weiding, Ole Thestrup, Hanne LÃ¸vendahl, Sofia Meyer, Per Holm Henriksen, Jeppe Kaas, Elsebeth Steentoft, Mikkel Vadsholt, Peter Reichhardt, Henning Lajer, Tomas Villum Jensen, Dany Verissimo, Camilla Bendix, Jakob Cedergren
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Description

From Academy Award-winning director Anders Thomas Jensen and in the vein of "Delicatessen" and "Eating Raoul," "The Green Butchers" brings you the dynamic duo of Bjarne and Svend, two pals who decide to open their own butcher shop. Grappling with a competitive market and an evil ex-boss, the two come up with a special dish that suddenly has everyone flocking to their counter and dying for more. As business heats up however, so does the competition and suddenly everyone is asking about Bjarne and Svend's "special ingredients."

Customer Reviews:

i liked it.................2007-07-04

Two friends (Bjarne and Svend) decide to open their own butcher shop however due to an accident they end up killing the electrician who was repairing the lights in the meat cooler. Svend is at a loss on what to do so he carves up a thigh and sells it as a fillet and their butcher shop is an instant success. However now they are faced with the problem of how to keep stocking their new meat (Svend's Chickie Wickies). While most of the movie centers around the Chickie Wickies it also explores the relationship between Bjarne and his brother as well as his new girlfriend. It is a well made and humorous movie that I would recommend.

The red butchers is more like it!!.......2007-05-24

Very quirky plot ala Sweeny Todd about two butchers who end up butchering and selling you guessed it!! Mikkelsen is quite wonderful in a pre-Casino Royale performance, I did not recognize him. However, he is very convincing and the story is hysterically funny if you can stomach the premise.

The Green Butchers.......2006-08-28

I love it when a skilled group of actors takes an absurdly funny situation and plays it absolutely straight and serious, without mugging for the camera, without pausing so you can laugh, and most certainly without a laugh track. Dark humor? I suppose, since it has murder and stuff. Svend and Bjarne open a butcher shop in this film, which the cover blurb calls "deceptively simple and wickedly funny." Yeah, that's what it is. It's Danish, the director has a strong Academy Award resume, and I don't care. I just know I enjoyed it immensely. It also features some very clever dialog, and you know I love word play.

Finger lickin good feelgood comedy.......2006-07-10

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.

Excellent........2006-05-18

The Green Butchers (Anders Jensen, 2004)

What a wonderful little film this is. If you haven't seen it yet, you should.

A dark comedy in the tradition of (but in no way resembling) Delicatessen, The Green Butchers gives us Svend (Mads Mikkelsen) and Bjarne (Nikolaj Lee Kaas), two assistants to Holger (Ole Thestrup), the town butcher. They can't stand him, and Svend is burning to go into business for himself. They find an old butcher shop that'll cost them two million kroner to buy. Svend can get his half by mortgaging his house; Bjarne, on the other hand, has all of his money tied up in a trust related to his comatose brother Eigil (also played by Kaas), whom he hasn't seen in ten years. He asks the sanatorium to turn off the life support devices, gets the money, and the two go into business. Their first day is an unmitigated disaster, with their only customers Svend's girlfriend Tina (Bodil Jorgensen) and the electrician fixing the lights in their meat locker. At the end of the day, Svend locks up and leaves, only to find the next morning that he locked the electrician in the meat locker, and the man froze to death. When Holger comes in to get some meat to feed the town council, Svend panics and sells him the electrician's leg-- and when the town hears about Svend's secret recipe, everyone in town wants meat from Svend and Bjarne's place. Meanwhile, the doctors turn off Eigil's life support, and he wakes up...
The film is carried in no small part by Kaas' double-role as Bjarne and Eigil, whose relationship is as deep and complex as any I've seen in modern film. Svend, though the movie's main character, ends up playing straight man to the relationship of the brothers and Bjarne's hard-headed pragmatism, not to mention reluctance to sell the unsuspecting townsfolk human flesh in marinade and pass it off as chicken. And the rest of the movie has a great deal of emotional depth (not to mention excellent comic timing); there's not much at all wrong with the rest of it. (One coincidence does seem forced, which is unfortunate, as much of the movie's plot turns on it.) But it is Bjarne and Eigil who turn this from an amusing way to kill a couple of hours into a real tour-de-force. Highly recommended. ****

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The Green Butchers
Director: anders thomas jensen
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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This is the Danish Language version with English subtitles. Is Region USA though.

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