Terkel i knibe
Tags: revenge, cult, violence, humor

Plot synopsis:
Terkel is in 6th grade at a secondary school together with his best friend Jason, who carries an iron pipe with him at all times even though he keeps on dropping it and curses about it. Terkel and Jason are playing a Game Boy in the schoolyard of Chestnutlane one day when a strange man in a green panda sweater approaches them. The man, Justin (Danish: Gunnar Bjerre), tells Terkel that he has sat on a spider. "Nothing to worry about. They're just jeans. They can be washed." Terkel says.
Terkel's teacher gets fatally run over (much to the rejoice of the class), and the class's new teacher is the strange Justin. Terkel's parents Sheila and Leon get married and the two "bad boys" in his class, Nigel and Saki, manipulate Terkel to steal beer for them at the party. When Terkel's short-tempered, alcoholic and violent uncle Stuart Stardust notices, he beats up Nigel (Danish: Sten) (which also means "stone" in Norse) and Saki, for which they blame Terkel, so they begin bullying him, but no-one seems to want to help him.
One day the overweight girl in the class, Doris (Danish: Fede Dorit ("Fede" means "Fat"), approaches Terkel with a love letter. When Nigel and Saki notice, they start teasing the two of them, calling them a couple. Terkel is torn: he wants to defend Doris, but instead, because he'd rather save face in front of the cool kids, he says "No, there's no way I love that fat cow!" Doris gets so upset that she jumps out the window from the fourth floor and dies (as the school principal says: "let's hope that fat cow didn't land on anyone's head down there").
After that Terkel starts receiving death threats: on his desk, painted on the ceiling of his room, on a stone which breaks his window, in his notebook... His parents aren't of any help – his chainsmoking mother tells him about all the diseases he might develop in strange ways (like getting SARS from wet wood) and his father only seems capable of one word: "No".
One day, Justin takes his class for a school trip where they are going to study the salamanders. Terkel doesn't want to go and begs his parents to let him stay at home. On the bus Nigel and Saki invite Terkel to sit down with them, he does so and Jason becomes angry. During the bus trip Justin sings a song about hard life. When they get to the forest, where they are going to study the salamanders, Nigel and Saki want him to sleep in their tent – he does. He gets a shock later when Saki stumbles into the tent with a black eye, telling him that Jason beat him up. Terkel thinks that Jason is acting strangely aloof, and Nigel tells him that Doris was Jason's sister.
Terkel is terrified, and thinks that all the death threats were from Jason, because he made his sister commit suicide. As they're going to bed, Terkel finds a dead cat in his sleeping bag and he receives a text message from Jason's phone which says "I'm coming to kill you". Nigel and Saki advise Terkel to tell Justin, which he does. He wants to be safe from Jason, so Terkel insists that Justin come with him into the woods where he explains everything. Then he says "I'm gonna call Jason right now and say that I have told you everything". Justin protests but Terkel does so and to his horror, he hears ringing sounds coming from Justin's pocket. The plot unravels, and it turns out all the death threats and messages had been from Justin as a revenge for Terkel sitting on the spider when they first met. Terkel flees, and a thrilling race through the woods commences. Just as Justin has Terkel cornered, he is saved in the nick of time by Jason, who finally puts his iron bar to use. During the struggle the pipe is smashed into Justin's head presumably killing him. Terkel and Jason go away in the sunset once again friends, only to be scared by the narrator and music teacher Arne who wears a hockey mask and a chainsaw. The camera moves back and shows the audience that Justin is still alive.
The final credits include some outtake/blooper scenes, such as, Terkel's father being unable to remember his lines: "No".

Review: Terkel i Knibe is a great movie.
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's an animation about kids, however I would look upon this as more of an adult movie.
I think it would be funnier for teenagers and enlightening for adults.The animations are great.
The voice-job was great on the Norwegian version and I expect nothing less of the Danish one.The score is good.
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.
Delightfully twisted, like a danish South Park.
What got me watching this movie was the advertisement that this movie is like South Park directed by Tim Burton.
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.
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.
Movies like Terkel i knibe.
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 movie was way more disturbing than I expected, but that's a good thing.
This is a movie you should see as soon as possible - there's really nothing like it.Watch "Torkel" right now!.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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...
This is a fresh and funny movie, ABSOLUTELY NOT for children!.
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.
This is the best animated movie ever.
I love the dark story hidden in a child looking animation.
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.
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 a great movie.
This movie is great political, and has a deep point.
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 i recommend you to See it and use the dubbing of your country and have a good time....
For those that don't know, this deals with Terkel, a pre-teen boy who has a fairly regular school- and home-life.
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.
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.
With no subject and plot-line - just meaningless violence with no humor-touch.Don't waste your time.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Are you kidding!?This film is brilliant and utterly hysterical...Perhaps the English translation is not as witty or black as the Danish original?
Whilst most Hollywood animated features are fairly insipid & family friendly, this is most certainly an adult film.
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 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.
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.
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..
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".
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.
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.
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..
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..
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.
I decided to give it a chance, being a fan of crude jokes and animation but I was severely let down on both points.
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?
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?
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.
Short and to the point movie.
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 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 play7/10 - the movie9/10 - the radio play