A comedy?!

Agree too. I was quite irritated by a lady sitting behind me at the theatre and laughing her heart out, at almost every scene. To me, its not a comedy and neither a tragedy, its a weird mix of genres and I expected a lot more.

Bit of a generalisation, wouldn't you say? I'm Danish and I didn't particularly enjoy the humour in this film. For a comedy, it contained very few genuine laughs IMO.


"I hope I never get so old I get religious" - Ingmar Bergman

> It makes it a film that feels real, but is actually truly absurd.

Yeah, that must have been one of the reasons why I felt a bit guilty after laughing at some of the scenes/lines. :D I thought all the actors were doing a fine job for that matter!

This movie is absolutely brilliant people. You cannot call it a comedy because that would not describe the whole character of the film. It is slapstick, tragicomedy, blak comedy, and all oher types of comedy rolled into one. Above all it is a sharp snare at short sightedness and fascist thinking. This kind of movie is very hard to find in the american moviescene hence hard to grip for some people over in the us I think.(Same goes for my European companions over here) This isn't a popcorn kinda movie. Alltough lately there is a group of actors like will ferrel en luke wilson(the one from idiocracy) that are moving or at least trying to move in a similar direction. What makes Adams so funny is the seriousness by wich these people play their roles in the ludacris situations theyre put in.(think of the scene where the priest and the fascist are in the car listening to how deep is your love, hilarious) And thats what makes will ferrel and those others funny too, but I think they need stronger writers and better stories to really exploit their full potential. Stranger then fiction is the one thats comes closest to this kind of movie that ive seen in recent years. Most american comedies seem to be pottyhumour and foul mouthing and plain stupidity of characters of wich i had my fair share by now. For anyone who loved adams apples be sure to check out flickering lights and the green butchers from the same creators. I recently saw a hungarian flick called taxidermia wich takes this genre even a step further and moves close towards a tragedy and the absurdist genre but it's worth seeing for the alternative movie audience.

Khalid shot the white cat,who was after the birds.

For *beep* sakes! Quit talking about the movie and just watch it!
It was an old cat....

Just got done watching it on Sundance (never seen or heard of it before).... Brilliant! Of course it's a comedy, at least in the Shakespearean sense, in that it had a happy ending. Even though it got quite dark, the film ultimately didn't give in to cynicism, so I consider it a comedy. There were also a lot of good jokes throughout.
My first good laugh was when the woman came to see the reverend, and in the middle of unburdening herself about the possibility of giving birth to a handicapped child, the reverend and the neo-nazi are arguing about the cookies. The doctor with little regard for ethics or patient confidentiality was hilarious. Having just seen the film a few minutes ago, I don't want to get into the theological implications right now, but I found the reverend's refusal to see the bad in anything funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, all at the same time. Like how he purposely overlooks the fat ex-tennis player's continuing alcoholism and agrees to buy his "cough syrup", while pretending like the neo-nazi didn't just beat him up. He's like Ned Flanders that way.