{"id":3764,"date":"2012-07-26T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2012-07-26T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:10:22","slug":"klown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=3764","title":{"rendered":"Klown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Klown, a comedy from Denmark about two men on a canoe trip who descend into all sorts of desperate debauchery, demonstrates how the semi-improv, jitter-cam mode of filmmaking has gone from being a style to a tic \u2014 a way to disguise how unreal a movie can be. Frank (Frank Hvam), who looks like Ed Begley Jr. with a face of frozen cluelessness, is a geek who’s just learned that his girlfriend is pregnant. Casper (Casper Christensen) is a family man and rabid horndog who organizes the trip to get action on the side.<\/p>\n

The early scenes make us think we’re watching a trenchant satire of beleaguered males. But as soon as they leave their canoe, you start to notice that everything in Klown is a bit too precious and wacky to believe, from the brothel that Frank and Casper visit (it just happens to be run by their book-club cohort) to the “pancake lady” who beds both of them to the reefer that inspires Frank to strip down and run onto a rock-concert stage. Essentially, this is a Scandinavian version of The Hangover, but maybe the planned American remake won’t pretend to be something it’s not