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Men & Chicken
Directed by
Anders Thomas Jensen
Not Rated
2015
1h 43m
Comedy
,
Drama
,
and more
6.7
85%
73%
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Through getting to know their unknown family, two outcast brothers discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.
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Cast of Men & Chicken
Mads Mikkelsen
Elias
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Gregor
David Dencik
Gabriel
Nicolas Bro
Josef
Søren Malling
Franz
Ole Thestrup
Flemming
Kirsten Lehfeldt
Doctor Abbot
Bodil Jørgensen
Ellen
Lisbet Dahl
Susan
Birthe Neumann
Inger Lis
Rikke Louise Andersson
Sara
Anders Thomas Jensen
Director / Writer
Kim Magnusson
Producer
Tivi Magnusson
Producer
Men & Chicken Ratings & Reviews
edward quin
March 15, 2025
The lusty violence with which Mads forms a bond with his newfound family is as infectious as a well fought rugby match to those who are drawn to that sort of thing. To those who are drawn to the nature of beastiality and its consequences this movie will be irresistible. Hilarious and poignant and original, another tour de force by Mads Mikkelson and a brilliant group of fellow artists.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Occasionally rib tickling but more often gut churning, this turns largely on the spectacle of Mikkelsen, a respected dramatic actor and a Bond villain no less, being cast as a furiously dyspeptic nerd who keeps running off somewhere to masturbate.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Thankfully, Jensen isn't going for cheap laughs with the grotesqueries of "Men & Chicken," instead working to find the soul of his screenplay and treat these oddballs with a degree of understanding and, if one squints hard enough, love.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
While this isn't the best movie you'll ever see, for the curious it's worth exploring.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
You can't accuse "Men & Chicken" of false advertising: There are men and there are chickens.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Jensen positions "Men & Chicken" as a fablelike ode to humanism and tolerance, but his obsession with brutish sexuality and mean, slapstick humor makes that claim feel unearned and glib.
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
Demands you get on its distinctive wavelength, but offers plenty of offbeat pleasures once you do.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Kupecki
If you are looking for something completely different, something strange, smart, and vulgar, Jensen's film more than qualifies.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
What does all of this add up to? Damned if I know. But it's fun to see a film that plays by its own rules to such a degree that any comparison to anything else falls apart.
Brooklyn Magazine
Benjamin Mercer
As Jensen sets up what amounts to a speculative sociological experiment-investigating nature in the absence of nurture-he dabbles as well in a kind of Podunk science fiction.
Reason Online
Kurt Loder
I don't know the writer-director, but now I worry about him.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
For a time the movie feels like a cross between "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and a vintage Three Stooges short. And then there are the mutated chickens.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Rechtshaffen
This seriously warped family portrait - an inspired thematic hybrid of Kafkaesque alienation and Farrelly brothers farce, with a healthy grafting of Tod Browning's "Freaks" - still has an organic sweetness at its core.
Village Voice
Michael Nordine
Mikkelsen, blessed with the rare ability to class up a joint while also being the most menacing guy in the room, is cast against type as a mustachioed philanderer; based on the evidence, his estimable talents are better suited to Hannibal.
Film Journal International
Nick Schager
Mads Mikkelsen's weirdo performance helps prop up this Danish black comedy about the reunion of long-lost mutant brothers.
Paste Magazine
Andy Crump
After Men & Chicken makes its rowdy family reunion, the film turns into an existential tragedy marked by gallows humor.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
The film is grotesque and bizarre without ever really being funny, and while the sight of Mikkelsen as a nebbishy loser is initially bracing, the novelty wears off fast, leaving little else.
We Got This Covered
Matt Donato
Men & Chicken brings brotherly bonding to weird, absurd new levels, but its deadpan nature goes flat after the umpteenth battle royale.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
An admirably bizarre and beautiful genre mixtape, but Anders Thomas Jensen's empathy for his characters gradually impedes his imagination.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Every so often, a feature production lands upon a location so evocative, the spot becomes the defining characteristic of the film itself. Jensen has lucked upon just such an iconic building with Men & Chicken.
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