Just perfect...

Expected more

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This comment is mainly about Anders Thomas Jensen and his incredible talent. If you check out his titles you will be impressed by the quantity and the outstanding quality of what he has already written. And by the variety of themes he touched.In the present movie (which he also directed) he shows the world what a creative author can realize with a handful of actors, one church, one hospital and a couple of cars…The film is original, catching and endearing. The acting is convincing and the long lasting impression you'll get is that you have watched a story whose plot was somehow predictable and yet it surprised you.

I honestly haven't seen a movie like this before...quirky, dark, moody and sometimes violent...Adam's Apples had me tied in knots by the end of the movie! What I am discovering about Danish film is that you actually get to know all of the characters and their quirks...then, most of the story evolves around how the individual characters interact with each other.Strange as it may seem, I could relate to each and every character and how they dealt with what life threw at them...even the doctor was weird but interesting.I can't express enough how fantastic this movie is...if you are curious about Danish Film...watch this first!

It really is a movie masterpiece. I have never come along any comparable story and this is not the only aspect making Adams Apples my personal favorite of all time. The characters are very developed. You get a little piece of everyone's background-story so you cannot help but feel like knowing the people for a long time and so, you perfectly sympathize their changings. If i had to use one word to sum-up the movie it would be: Touching. The least thing i can say is that you will surely enjoy watching it, whether you like it's surprising plot twists or moral lessons. This is a movie that everyone needs to see. It will make you laugh, when you're not supposed to do. It will make you cry, when you shouldn't feel like doing so. It is one of the few movies, that are getting better, the more often i watch them. But still i cannot completely categorize it. All i know is, that it should be more famous than it is.10/10, my favorite movie

Having known next to nothing about Danish cinema (except for Lars von Trier, perhaps), the film took me by surprise. I spent an agitated 90 minutes laughing my head off and silently praying, 'oh please, don't make this into an educational film, pretty please with sugar on top...' Given the plot outline, it was not difficult to imagine a 'bad guy turned into a good guy' storyline that allows us to shed the two tears Kundera described in his account of kitsch. However, think twice with the likes of Anders Thomas Jensen. The taciturn neo-Nazi, Adam, scheduled for community service at a parish in the middle of nowhere, enters a bizarre world of deranged minds, malicious birds and human beings who just wouldn't die. At the outset, one may read the characters as a company of outcasts - a priest who has conditioned himself to block out negative aspects of reality, a tennis prodigy turned kleptomaniac, a seemingly incontinent ex-Nazi, a robber harboring the fallacy of taking money from multinational corporations by means of robbing Statoil gas stations, a woman pregnant with a retarded baby - they all seem to inhabit the fictional space of the film because they might find it difficult to function within the human society (a theme portrayed, in a less subtle way, in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest). However, we are constantly reminded that what unfolds before us is not a realist narrative. Be it the neo-Nazi who walks grumpily away, being shot twice through the chest, the phlegmatic, malicious birds who decide to plague the apple tree, the Bible that always opens on the same page (uhm...some books actually tend to do that) or the priest who survives a shot through the head - these and other unreal occurrences provide for a genre shift. Together with a series of bizarre situations, all portrayed as relatively mundane happenings, the film creates an atmosphere quite akin to the books of the great magical realist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As the story becomes liberated from the constraints of realist narratives, we as viewers are allowed to laugh in a light-hearted way. We are no longer watching a realist odyssey (and, consequently, there is no such catharsis as for instance with Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark); rather than that, the film provides an opaque screen where we project our own emotions. Since the movie presents bizarre or unreal occurrences in a matter-of-fact way, one finds it difficult to ascribe a clear, definite meaning to them. One is thus forced to create one's own meaning, or abolish the idea of 'meaning' altogether (as it often happens with magical realist texts). Some reviewers admit feeling guilty while laughing in the course of the film. My laughter, on the other hand, was liberating and quite unstoppable. The movie is a magical realist take on the Book of Job - and a hilarious one, at that.