The Trouble with Terkel (2004) User Reviews

Hilarious animation!

[Stibbert · 8/10 · 21 October 2005]

Terkel i Knibe is a great movie. I saw the movie with Norwegian dubbing. I'm generally against dubbing, but this movie is an exception. Aksel Hennie does a great voice-job. The setting and theme of this movie is pretty universal. All you need to do is to change the language and the story, setting and lines will work in any western country.

The film is about Terkel and his complicated life. It shows some of the things a 6th grader today will have to cope with. It's a great script. It brings up the subject of harassment, witch in Norway and possibly also Danmark is a very hot subject. It shows an exaggerated picture of todays kids, but if you think about it it's not really that far from the truth. The way the kids act and speak could actually be the case. This movie contains elements that goes deeper than the superficial comedy. Never the less it's a crazy movie and should be enjoyed as one. It's an animation about kids, however I would look upon this as more of an adult movie. Yes, it was rated low, but it contains violence and jokes I doubt an eight year-old would get. I think it would be funnier for teenagers and enlightening for adults.

The animations are great. It's thought through and cool. The characters are easy to recognize and it's just detailed enough. The voice-job was great on the Norwegian version and I expect nothing less of the Danish one.

The score is good. Bo Rasmussen has made a nice cartoonish, yet serious score. It's funny and dramatic and builds up the mood. The songs in the movie are also good and funny.

Terkel i knibe is a good movie about that's funny, yet serious if you look deeper. It got drive and there is something happening from the very beginning all till the end. Have no fear... You're in for a good time!

Gleefully Naughty Danish cartoon puts a sunny, blithely jocular smile on a naturally dark story

[WaxBellaAmours · 8/10 · 21 July 2006]

Commencing SIFF's "Midnight Adrenaline" program in 2006, "Terkel in Trouble" is Denmark's first CGI feature-length cartoon, and no doubt it's the kind that would make Pixar nervously clench their throat. A film that feels like a cross between a nerve-rackingly suspenseful after-school special and an R-rated Disney musical, it's tale of adolescent angst and suburban paranoia varies loosely between tones of high-energy recklessness, nerve-rattling tension and jocular naughtiness. It's a definite crowd-pleaser for only certain types of crowds.

Our teenage protagonist is the hapless Terkel, a gawky almost-teenager with peeled-back red hair and a canyon-wide half-smile (with lips that blithely remain divided at all times to show his lopsided teeth), his face seems etched in a permanent state of bemusement and tremulous vigilance. Being perpetually stalked by two well-dressed, bawdy schoolyard bullies (one, a verminous schoolboy that seems to be a blonde mop-topped Ratzo Rizzo mended into an uber-confident junior-high bad-boy; the other, a portly, none-too-bright sidekick that looks like a "Sopranos" castoff), he always has to keep checking over his shoulder to see when they're going to strike next.

Not that home-life provides much solace; inside the walls of his suburban pad, his family unit seems like a Monty Python sketch of mild domestic dysfunction. From a father who literally can only say "No", a mother that's basically a walking chimney as she always seems to be lighting a new cigarette in her mouth, and a sister who haplessly seems prone to endless pratfalls and accidents that continue to escalate into brutal absurdity. Let's not forget to mention the comically drunken, not-so-sane uncle (perpetually donning a sea captain outfit) who spews endless string of wildly inappropriate, booze-tingled comments (many of which I can't repeat here) to those he supposedly means to help.

His only pal seems to be Jason, a constantly profane, sullen, rap-obsessed confidant, who always carries an iron pipe in his backpack, because, well, you never know when you might need it in the 'burbs.

As Jason continues to grow distant, the schoolyard bullies ratchet up their torment and his family becomes increasingly unsympathetic and remote, Terkel's only chance at personal redemption seems to be through his new homeroom teacher, a joyful, often-crooning embodiment of the sunshine-liberal spirit that offers a much-needed ray of light to Terkel's otherwise unwelcoming world.

However, Terkel starts receiving anonymous death threats out of nowhere, something that increases our anti-hero's already tense plight through the dangerous halls of his suburban junior high.

And toss in a lot of remarkably upbeat and often very naughty musical numbers (including the most lewdly joyful and potty-mouthed romantic anthem ever captured in a cartoon, a dynamic Danish rap sequence and a nightmarish episode that cleverly riffs on Michael Jackson's "Thriller"), a lollipop-colored visual design with a few ornery sight gags, and plenty of very intense moments of rampant neurosis and paranoia for it's hapless anti-hero, and that gives you "Terkel in Trouble", one that will make you, if all things, glad you're no longer thirteen.

Suburban angst tales are hardly innovative territory for storytelling, but this one is an especially inspired and gaudy one: clearly the filmmakers want their audiences to both look in awe and squirm in their seats, overwhelmingly enjoying it and feeling uncomfortable for doing so at the same time, and they often succeed in both. Likely it will seem both odd and oddly familiar for the American viewer, as those weaned on "South Park" and "The Simpsons" will likely be confounded by its joyful idiosyncrasies as well as giddily amused by its array of jokingly miserable characters.

The setting of an anonymous western Suburb, populated with cruel, spoiled and unscrupulous beings that remain completely distant to those they view as friends and family but get belligerently compassion when protecting them from harm, forms a central identity that's both cynical and warmly ironic, a mixture American audiences have come to know very well. Yet the style is splashed in a colorful, consistent loopiness, balancing the murky, sordid traits that accompany the film's harsher moments with an often blithely facetious, bright-as-neon smile to many of the issues at hand. In short, it's portrayal of familiar themes could only be told with a distinctly Scandinavian-bad-boy personality.

Given, it's balance of bright light and darkness doesn't always succeed, as some scenes that seemingly want us to laugh at events involving teen suicide and child abuse just feel downright sour and snide, even by the standards of the film's often enduringly nasty charm. And the film occasionally gets a little too gruesome for it's own good, including Terkel's sisters increasingly bizarre series of brutal pratfalls, a previously mentioned teen suicide sequence and his uncle's drunken, brutal confrontation with Terkel's unforgiving bullies after Terkel ignites a failed beer bust, to name a few (and you can make sure that Jason's iron pipe doesn't go unused).

But with a film that naturally likes to bask in a motley, playful naughtiness, "Terkel in Trouble" is often brazenly splendid. With three directors and voiced completely (with an amusingly tongue-in-cheek and shape shifting poise) by stand-up comedian Anders Matthesson, "Terkel in Trouble" is an achievement, not only for being the landmark CGI-cartoon for it's native Denmark but also melding the idea of a "kids" movie to a straight-forward, non-condescending approach that happily lets them indulge in their joyfully vulgar pleasures rather than forcing them to endure aloof, stilted and often foolish preaching. It's a film for adults to let out the crude inner-child inside all of us, back when we gleefully embraced an immoral spirit rather than condemning it.

Delightfully twisted, like a danish South Park

[keuhkokala · 8/10 · 7 October 2005]

What got me watching this movie was the advertisement that this movie is like South Park directed by Tim Burton. I agree with the South Park part. The movie deals with elementary school kids with anarchistic humour involving lots of comical violence, cursing, bodily functions and bizarre incidents that make so many, including me, loving that show. Also this movie.

As for Tim Burton, he directs visually impressive and original movies, that deal with a character, that doesn't quite fit the surrounding world. None of the descriptions above quite fit Terkel in Trouble. The characters are quite normal types. Anyone knows the types, bullies, wiggers, vain girls, teased fat ones and crazy substitutes from their own days at elementary school. I think a proper tag line would be "South Park directed by Sam Raimi". At least in the Evil Dead days Raimi was famous for enjoying both torturing his actors while shooting and enjoying a lot of violent humour inspired by the Three Stooges.

So it was a very funny movie. It wasn't actually a very original one, the key mystery is way too easy to figure out, but I was laughing too hard at things like a fork in the eye, a sledgehammer to the crotch and biting a kid's ear off in a battle, to really be bothered by it. Even the South Park boys would be jealous.

**** The best part: Instead of the best scene, I'd like to describe my favorite character. That is Terkels alcoholic sailor-uncle. A very violent, ignorant and nonchalant he may be, but loving Fernet Branca so much makes him a really twisted character. And also an enjoyable one.

That was crazy and fun!

[teo-sun · 7/10 · 26 April 2006]

Being an Italian i've never heard about Terkel and all the others crazy characters. I've seen the movie 'cause i like twisted computer graphic movies, and i can say i've laughed a lot! Terkel end his friends are funny, the cartoon is like a mix of nasty moments inspired by great and famous series like "The Simpsons" or "South Park". The plot was a little dumb, but with a touch of mystery! But who cares about the plot when you can see funny moments a LOT of dirty language (just hear the old sailor, the uncle of Terkel... or his friend Jason, always walking around with a crowbar in his jeans...). This is a fresh and funny movie, ABSOLUTELY NOT for children!

Pure genius!

[Torgo_Approves · 9/10 · 22 September 2006]

(r#68)

There are movies that break new ground. Then there are movies that push the envelope. Then there are movies that not only push the envelope, they tear it to pieces. Movies like Terkel i knibe. Pure brilliance.

Terkel/Torkel is your typical insecure preteen. He's a bit of a dork and his only friend is Jason, a wannabe gangsta who always carries a pipe in his back pocket. Torkel is plagued by the class bullies Sten and Saki who have a vendetta against him ever since being beaten half to death by Torkel's alcoholic uncle Stewart. Torkel's parents can't offer him any help either; his mother is a chain-smoking woman way past her expiration date, and his dad's whole vocabulary consists of the word "no". So poor Torkel is lonely in his struggle to fit in amidst insane teachers, a very unfortunate little sister, and off-the-wall musical numbers.

The musical numbers... just pure awesomeness from start to finish. The most memorable song, bar none, is Jason's absolutely brilliant "F/(k off and die". Who the hell thought that one up? The characters are spot on. Several of them reminded me of people I know in real life - if that is a good thing or not, I have no idea. Anders Matthesen has done a great writing job and completely captures the atmosphere of a dysfunctional school.

Every positive review so far has commented on how funny the movie is, and I agree completely. This is by far the funniest movie I've seen all year, even funnier than the remake of The Omen, believe it or not. But I'm surprised no one has commented on how completely sick this movie is! There's gore, violence towards kids, suicides, the aforementioned little sister and her utensil troubles, you name it. This movie was way more disturbing than I expected, but that's a good thing. The makers are taking the medium of CGI animation into new and previously unvisited areas, and I applaud them for trying something new. The design of the characters is crude, but utterly hilarious. This is a movie you should see as soon as possible - there's really nothing like it.

Watch "Torkel" right now!

Great for children... If your kids are homicidal maniacs.

[Chucky_Jr · 6 October 2005]

Bullies, ignorant parents, odd teachers, zombies, psychopaths and drunks all appear in this hilarious and gruesome animated film from Dennmark. Wow. If that's how the Danes make family entertainment, I wonder how the adult movies are. Poor little Terkel has a lot of problems, his parents barley show him any attention, his friend makes him watch slasher movies and he's begin bullied at school by two weirdos with paint ball guns. And as that wasn't bad enough, a psychopath on the loose is out to get him. Talk about a traumatic childhood! This movie is great and funny in many way, but it's sort of south park-like humor makes it hard to watch for small children. But teenagers and adults with a twisted sense of humor will probably enjoy it as much as I did.

You never know when you need a steel pipe

[TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews · 7/10 · 28 July 2009]

This is based on the Special Edition DVD. I've been a fan of Anders since my initial exposure to him. This particular outing is a little different, in that it's one of the few times that he redoes something he's already done in another of the several mediums he's mastered. He did a television version of his radio Christmas calendar, and this is a movie version of an audio story that he put out on CD(which is superior to this). Most of the writing, overall, remains the same, with a bit of the timing lost for some reason, a couple of scenes are moved or excised, and new material, as well. The animation is smooth, high quality and they get a high level of detail. This has stuff for those who have already heard the story, as well as things that are just as much for new viewers. It's fairly well-directed, and though the range of expression is a tad limited, the cool plot gets told nicely enough, whether or not you know it beforehand. There are surprises, and very worthwhile, fresh sequences. For those that don't know, this deals with Terkel, a pre-teen boy who has a fairly regular school- and home-life. Bullying and an angry, out of control, and(in Denmark, anyway) well-known, uncle lead to complications, and that's all I'll say. The tendency is towards the reveals and such being more effective in the original form, but the visualization is always interesting. All of the new music for this is great. The humor is what we're used to from The Duck, with there being aggressive and/or offensive stuff, morbid dark comedy, clever and sometimes goofy jokes and gags. If you're into it, this is hilarious. I don't know if a lot of non-Scandinavians are going to enjoy this as much as we do, and I can't comment on any other voice version than the Danish one(the multi-talent being the sole performer), which is marvelous. The pacing is perhaps somewhat uneven. On the disc is found, after you navigate the unnecessarily annoying menus, various silly extras that go on for longer than the fun of them lasts, including the Stewart Stardust in-character feature commentary track. There is a lot of bloody, gory violence, disturbing content and strong language in this. I recommend this to any and all fans of Matthesen, though definitely listen to the first release of this tale before watching this. 7/10

"Terkel I Knibe" (Terkel in Trouble) is inspired genius!

[OXDD_girl · 9/10 · 5 January 2007]

Are you kidding!?

This film is brilliant and utterly hysterical...

Perhaps the English translation is not as witty or black as the Danish original? I was rolling on the floor with laughter when I saw this film over 6 months ago, & I've been searching for the DVD ever since. The 3D FX are not avant garde (similar to any Dreamworks animation), but the cartoon style is particularly unique & takes quite a while to adjust to. The however narrative is where the genius lies. Whilst most Hollywood animated features are fairly insipid & family friendly, this is most certainly an adult film. From Terkel's parents who engage in S&M, to the fat girl who hurls herself out a window & plummets to her splattered death, a violent & alcoholic uncle, and smuggling alcohol to underage kids outside a funeral, & well.. lots of blood, bruises, & urine, the film reaches to a mature audience & actually manages to avoid being overly crass.

No indeed, Terkel in Trouble maintains a dry & black sardonic humour without resorting to (too much) immature smut.

Despite being an animated feature, the story isn't half bad. The characters are unique & the dialogue is comedy gold. The central character endures so much distress & turmoil that the audience genuinely feels for the little fellow.

Possibly the ONLY let down of the whole film is the final twist where Terkel's stalker's motive is a little lame. But by that point I had already laughed myself to tears a hundred times, so who cares?

(And if anyone could give me some pointers on that DVD, help me out!!)

Short and to the point movie

[dleh · 7/10 · 19 February 2005]

I liked the movie, but I'm disappointed that they removed some of the original lyrics and dialog from the radio play. In general the characters are softened, probably to meet some R-rating since it's considered a teenage/kids story.

The animations are a unique cartoon style really helps the to get the story/humor across. The sets created and general surroundings are creative and surprising. The creative way they've worked the narrator into the story as a character works, but it's a heritage from the radio play.

All in all a good story and you'll like it if you watch the movie before you hear the original radio play

7/10 - the movie

9/10 - the radio play

A danish masterpiece!

[wischer · 10/10 · 30 January 2012]

This is the best animated movie ever. I love the dark story hidden in a child looking animation. I laughed through the whole movie and I can watch it over and over again and still laugh. The rough danish humor combined with childish look makes this movie to a masterpiece. If you are expecting a lame child movie then you will get surprised. There is suicide, cursing, murder and murder attempt, bullying and much more. But all these dark sides becomes okay when the movie has these innocent child looking characters, and this makes it to a funny comedy instead of some tasteless crap. This is one of my favorite movies! i really recommend it. If you don't like it, then you don't have a sense for humor.

Finally!

[McBuff · 8/10 · 19 April 2004]

The first Danish 100% computer-animated feature, and it's a deserved hit!

From the opening credits, a bullseye parody of Kyle Cooper's classic title sequence from SE7EN, the film hits a note far away from your usual animated fluff, be it from Disney, Pixar or anywhere else, for that matter. If Tim Burton and The Farrelly Brothers directed South Park, it would look something like this. Adapted from Anders Matthesen and Mette Heeno from Matthesen's radio play, it's a paperthin story of sixth-grader Terkel, who receives death threats and has trouble with a couple of bullies at school. But what it lacks in story, it compensates for with inventive CGI animation despite its low budget (more Jimmy Neutron than Finding Nemo), brilliant voice characterizations by Matthesen (who does all the voices), and a sharp, anarchic, non-PC and absolutely hilarious sense of humor. Extra bonus: Pixar-like "outtakes" during end credits.

Stupid, cruel and disgusting...

[zuev · 1/10 · 14 November 2006]

I won't tell anything about poor graphics, sound or any other technical details... Because it's doesn't matter after you know the content.

Before I went to cinema to watch this, I'd read that it's something close to South Park. Aggressive, funny, touching... But there was nothing like it. Stupid, cruel and disgusting. Wasted money and time. Lots of people left before it even went to it's middle. With no subject and plot-line - just meaningless violence with no humor-touch.

Don't waste your time. You can go, just if you think that bloody suicide of girl, that was told that she's fat cow is funny.

Sory for my English, but I just couldn't make no complaint about it. 1/10.

Entertaining with a morbid twist.

[rwaite44 · 8/10 · 28 August 2007]

I found the movie quite a surprising piece of artistic work. If you enjoy the Tim Burton animations such as Nightmare Before Christmas you will enjoy this one. Bewarned this is a little more darker and also has its own take on animation. Watch for the small details, such as eyes, eye lid movements, lips to express feelings. Fantastic! The story line becomes an unexpected mild mystery/horror, with a few short twisted musical numbers thrown in. Overall, its was unusual but kept me entertained and watching. I didn't really walk away with anything but amusement. I guess that's what it was all about. Definitely worth watching.

A really great for everyone my little brother really liked it If ur a parent and can't find a good movie for your kid then this is a really great movie for them

[lorddem · 10/10 · 25 June 2021]

Don't watch any movie from Disney and Pixar they have drugs violence and many more things that can scar your kid for live.

This is a great movie

[pankreon · 10/10 · 4 April 2007]

This movie is great political, and has a deep point. But i could not stop laughing. Felix Herngren (Swedish dub) does all characters so good (he does all character by him self). And i am regularly against dubbing but this is really good work, and you get the point anyway. I highly recommend it! The songs they sing is really good work and is now very popular by kids in sixth grade (this movie is about sixth graders) but even if they don't get the point they seem to enjoy it and thats why this is a good family movie. But don't let to small children see it when it contains some material that can hurt. But i recommend you to See it and use the dubbing of your country and have a good time...

Danish humor at it's best.

[nonigdk · 8/10 · 13 December 2009]

The poster boy of this project, Anders Matthesen, is regarded being one of the best (stand-up) comedians and multi-artists in Denmark. So a movie like this would be a bullet proof exercise in Danish animation and humor.

However.

The style of the movie (animation-wise) is very much linked to the company behind it all."A Film". They have made a couple of animations, both short- and full feature. All of them have this particular style.

A great point to make about this movie is, that it displays a very good image of Danish humor among youngsters. It wouldn't surprise me if the rest of the world thinks it sucks big time. Danish humor is very odd. It's not uncommon, that our "hero" is very not like-able.

The over all plot is mediocre, but that's OK. Children get's beaten up, drunk people are on a rage and parents are very little aware of what the f*ck their children are doing.

All the characters are voiced - in Danish - by Anders Matthesen, and to see him do some of this stuff live, is - to be honest - a little bit scary. But freakin' awesome. It's like he has split personality, and of all the Danish comedians I know of, he is one of those in front, always pushing the envelope and crossing lines in what's funny and what isn't funny.

'Terkel i knibe' - is one of those projects, along with the radio shows and live performances. So of course, they had to make a movie about it.

It's not the best full feature animation out there, but it certainly is one of the funniest.

At least to this Dane.

Nasty, horrible and evil-

[minmagi50 · 1/10 · 19 January 2024]

I watched this recently with my grandson - and I was horrified.

How can you make such a film for children?

The children in the film are bullied so one jumps out of the window.

The grown ups are stupid and mean, too - they couldn't care less about poor Terkel-.

The way they talk to eachother is so mean and evil that I almost felt sick.

The authors, animators and producers of this gutter crap - shame on you,

I guess I have to say the animation is ok though not spectacular.

The caracters are deliberately made ugly and not very charming.

But I guss that's how things are made nowadays . Nothing is supposed to look prettyl .

. .

Ya got trouble

[rbn_lrk-1 · 10/10 · 15 July 2019]

With Ternet Ninja out on DVD it's time to look at comedian Anders Matthesen's Terkel i Knibe. It will be hard for people outside Scandinavia to understand this movie as it's based on a decade old Danish radio play that is also on CD. But you will enjoy the thrrills anyway, and don't let kids under 7 watch this alone.

funny but strange

[Yiffenstijn · 8/10 · 17 July 2006]

Its so funny i cant stop with laugh.its funny to that is with the godfather,the Blair witch project etc.I like this movie but i have some questions about the movie like 1.That guy who wants to kill Terkel,he wants to kill Terkel because he has sit on a spider but he sent message's with death animals.And more.So thats is something.but it is funny.And like his mother is a slut, is dad says on everything no,and his sister have always pain:she gets two times a fork in her eye and she falls from the stairs etc.And a fat kid is in love on Terkel but Terkel call her names to protect himself against bully's.And then the girl jumps out of a window.If you don't like humor with a lots of obscenity and violence i recommoded you don't go see this movie.

Infectiously funny, visually striking and delightfully politically incorrect

[fredrikgunerius · 8/10 · 18 February 2024]

Infectiously funny, visually striking and delightfully politically incorrect (and sometimes completely amoral) animated feature from Danish humourist Anders Matthesen. Although this is a classically constructed story with fairly conventional wrap-ups, the film is packed with original characters, events and dialogue throughout. It can be argued whether Terkel i knibe is a film suited for children (7 in Denmark/11 in Norway), but we all know the Danes as being thick-skinned people, so when uncle Stewart beats the crap out of the school punks, we can't help but enjoy it. For the Norwegian version actor Aksel Hennie has impressively voiced all characters.

*Review written in 2006 based on the Norwegian audio version.

Astonishingly dreadful

[Skint111 · 2/10 · 7 June 2006]

I am astonished that this film gets such favourable reviews on IMDb. It is one of the worst films I have ever seen and one of only three that I have walked out of before the end. I saw the English language version at a screening room in London with seven others. It's difficult to know where to start the criticism - but how about the non-moving plot; the deeply grating, irritating characters (so he has a dad who only says one word - 'no' - ha ha very funny); the sick, repellent detail; the stupid, pitiful songs; the lack of any sort of sympathy. It could be that the humour simply doesn't translate for a non Danish or non European audience, and that's the understatement of the year. I can't imagine how anyone in Britain could want to watch this for more than three minutes. The only plus is the slick computer animation. But who really gives a damn about that when the script is such utter, utter, UTTER drivel.

Pretty cruel, but has good songs.

[Animany94 · 4/10 · 4 January 2019]

I remembe when Terkel I Knibe came out back in 2004 and everybody talked about it. I liked it back then and it still has some nostalgic value today, because many of my friends still quote it so many years later.

But after I got into animation on a higher level and began looking for details here and there and watched it again... Yeah, I didn't like it that much and was shocked by its cruelty.

It really had its legit hilarious moments, but so much just seemed like Matthesen just wanted to shock people and not much else. Some of the jokes were all out tasteless. And without being a director myself, I think the story of a ysterious maniac stalking you could be an interesting story like some sort of cautionary tale.

But I'm reading to much into it, because I know it's solely made to entertain and shock people, but among all the cruelty you'll also find hilarious moments and get some catchy songs with it. The animation is still ugly, and that's a fact.

What the....?

[eddtedd · 1/10 · 5 February 2007]

Now, this is probably only the second time I've been so infuriated with a film that I felt the need the write something about it. Normally, if a film is rubbish there are plenty of reviews that will back up my thoughts and I can feel better about myself. But when I read the reviews on here saying it's the best thing sliced bread, I felt I didn't have a choice.

I came across this film when my house mate had read a very positive review in a film magazine (I won't say which one, but you will TOTALly know what FILM magazine I mean). I decided to give it a chance, being a fan of crude jokes and animation but I was severely let down on both points. And a heap load more as well.

When I first switched it on, I could just about put up with the dodgy, and to be honest, crass animation. (I mean, was some college kid doing his A Level Media Studies in charge or something?) What really drove me mad was the voice of Turkel though. Now, I know I'm only talking about the English Version here, and I haven't seen the original (nor do I have any intention of doing so), but what the hell was Adrian Edmondson doing with Turkel's voice? No wonder he was getting bullied. Swinging a bag of cats against the wall would have sounded better. What's the point of having a film where, as an audience member, you can't sympathise or even feel anything for the main character? They might as well have had a stick in Turkel's place. The performance wouldn't have been so wooden then.

The film had no plot. Basically stuff happened and someone happened to be there to record it. You get better videos on youtube. The jokes were so far and few between you needed a map and compass to find them. And when you did find them, it was Dad saying 'No' every time. Side splitting stuff, I can tell you. I found funnier stuff at the bottom of my garden underneath a rock. The use of swearing was misused. You can't just try and put in a load of swear words to make something funny.

The only highlight in the whole sorry affair was Johnny Vegas. Playing the role he so easily plays in all his acting roles: the Drunk. Now, I don't know about you, but it's hardly a stretch for him is it? It's like asking Hugh Grant to play the bumbling Englishman. Good performances, but not really pushing themselves are they?

I seriously don't understand how people can rave about this film. It's like the whole thing was made by 12 and 13 year olds, who had eaten too much sweets and told to make a film about bullying with lots of swearing. I'm not saying the F word isn't funny. It is, but not when you beat the audience over the head with it about a thousand times a minute.

I was dissapointed..

[ks4 · 4/10 · 14 April 2004]

As i was coming to this movie i expected a hilarious movie, the movie has gotten many positive reviews and generally just a lot of positive media coverage as well, also it has grossed very high for a danish movie, but i have to say i was dissapointed at how much lack the movie has of a real meaning, it feels sometime empty and build only on the brilliant usage of the danish language, which was good, but not funny in the way i had expected.

Anders Matthesen is one of the highest rated standup comedians in Denmark, and naturally he was bound to make a real movie at some point, well here it is, and it even takes full use of one of "Anden's" famous characters, Uncle Stewart, however, despite a good background for the movie, i was somehow dissapointed, the humour, as i had expected to be laughing to dead over this, i wasn't, instead i only found myself laughing once. Which i must admit, is too little for me when the movie is supposed have its strength of the humour. So basically i found the movie dissapointing becauase it was based on how you liked the humour, and as i didn't laugh much the story seemed rather empty, i did however enjoy the fantastic use of the danish language, that was perfect, all kind of slang, every little phrase of the danish language, natural as alternative, was used, it was great, and i'm every dane will think that watching this, while foreigners might have a problem.

The directing itself is fine i guess, it's an animated movie so it doesn't really exist i feel, but there are some scenes where the "camera" is used in a nice alternative way.

For the acting it's all Anders Matthesen, and yeah that is brilliant, he does voice for all the characters in the movie, which is a lot, and nowhere can you hear it's the same person doing it, just simply amazingly done.

I base my vote on what i thought of the movie really, besides "Anden's" genius use of the danish language and the great way of using his voice differently from all characters was fantastic, but besides this the movie didn't get really get to me, when you base a movie so much on the humour you better make sure it works, and it probably does work a lot for many, but i just didn't find it funny, and that makes the story seem kinda empty, even though there was a lot of morale in it, it just didn't cut through becuase it was far from what the movie intended to do.

4/10

Not ok for children

[princesswu-79837 · 1/10 · 26 June 2022]

This movie has a guy named Terkel. The animation is very gruesome. The character designs are also more awful then hair high. Film makes no sense at all. The characters look stupid. I appreciate the music in the movie. Terrible lip syncing. The worst thing about this movie is the voice acting. I hope I never see this movie again.