Take the Trash/Blå Mænd (2008) - Heide's Danish trash comedy

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The four main stars of Rasmus Heide's Take the Trash look ready to goof it up on this poster

An arrogant IT salesman commits a blunder and receives a community service sentence that is to be effected in a junkyard. Here he learns something about people and fellowship. And meets a sexy lady who for inscrutable reasons comes there quite often.

Take the Trash is written by Mick Øgendahl (All for One/Alle for Én (2011)) and debuting co-writer-director Rasmus Heide (All for Two/Alle for To (2013)).
The script tries to give us an acceptable presentation of its environments, but it seems like Øgendahl and Heide don't have a clue about them. The story is served with a semi-serious tone, but the material is so languid and caricatured that it seems very foolish to think that we would buy any of it.
Thure Lindhardt (Light Thereafter (2017)) is not very funny and far from convincing as the protagonist. Most of Take the Trash's light moments come from Sidse Babett Knudsen (Mona's World/Monas Verden (2001)), who goes all-in as a day-dreaming, lesbian character with a violent streak.
The film is ugly technically and has obvious problems of getting its running time up to a suitable length for a theatrical comedy. Take the Trash is a cheap and poor Danish attempt at nailing the modern farce with American influences. Near its ending the film lets out some extra-tasteless, unfunny gay jokes that stress Øgendahl and Heide's maturity level, which is about at level with a backwards 9 year-old.

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Watch a trailer for the film here (regrettably without English subtitles)

Cost: 10 mil. DKK, approximately 1.56 mil. $
Box office: Unknown - but likely around 32.8 mil. DKK, approximately 5.11 mil. $
= Box office success (approximately 3.27 times the cost)
[Take the Trash was released 15 August (Denmark) and runs 85 minutes. Shooting took place in Denmark, including Copenhagen, from September - October 2007. The film was a hit in Denmark, its only release country, where it sold 438,047 tickets. If you multiply this by 75 DKK, which was around the average ticket prize in Denmark at the time, you get the 32.8 mil. DKK gross listed above. The film won 2/6 Robert awards (Danish Oscar) - both audience awards. Heide returned with The Christmas Party/Julefrokosten (2009). Lindhardt returned in Little Soldier/Lille Soldat (2008). 3,291 IMDb users have given Take the Trash a 5.8/10 average rating.]

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All for One/Alle for Én (2011) - Heide and Øgendahl's flawed but funny Danish crime comedy

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The four male stars look game to make us laugh on the not very original poster for Rasmus Heide's All for One

Three dingbat friends are going to prison after a car theft but learn that they can avoid it by helping the police reveal a Dutch art dealer's secret drug business.

All for One is an enthusiastic crime comedy written by the also co-starring Mick Øgendahl (All for Two/Alle for To (2013)) and directed by Rasmus Heide (The Christmas Party/Julefrokosten (2009)). Øgendahl has written an excessively verbally and language-oriented script, and some of the scenes of the slacker characters sitting around telling each other jokes just don't fly.
Jon Lange (Denmark 92/Sommeren '92 (2015)) as the group's 'straight man' is wobbly in his acting, SPOILER and the sentimental ending, in which his separated wife takes him back, is pretty thick. Mille Dinesen (Rita (2012-17)) is wasted, but Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner (1982)) is fun to watch as the well-cast villain, and Charlotte Fich (People Get Eaten /Mennesker Bliver Spist (2015)) is also good as the police mama, a role that riffs on her performance in the popular Danish police show Unit One/Rejseholder (2000-04).
Though flawed, All for One is fairly entertaining and will certainly make a Dane laugh, which is clearly its main ambition.

Here is a video from the film's premiere

Cost: 19.5 mil DKK, approximately 3.1 mil. $
Box office: Unknown (but likely around 30 mil. DKK, approximately 4.8 mil. $
= Uncertain (but likely a big flop)
[All for One premiered 10 February (Denmark) and runs 81 minutes. The funding was supported by the Danish Film Institute, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje and TV2. Shooting took place in Aarhus, Jutland in Denmark. The film was a hit in Danish cinemas, where 368,110 bought admission. But it doesn't seem to have had any life outside of Denmark; it is only listed to have been shown at the Hamburg Film Festival. The Danish audience will have generated around 30 mil. DKK, still not enough to rank the film better than big flop status. The 'rules' for hit or flop status are, however, written somehow differently in the state-sponsored movie business in small Denmark, however, where All for One is recognized as a big hit and have resulted in two sequels to date, All for Two/Alle for To (2013) and All for Three/Alle for Tre (2017). The film won the Audience Award Robert, the Danish Oscar equivalent. 1,951 IMDb users have given All for One a 5.7/10 average rating.]

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