Review: Boisterous 'Men & Chicken' Starring Mads Mikkelsen Is Rambunctiously Good

Minutes into the delightfully absurdist "Men & Chicken," we're already laughing at death. A bedridden man we never see on-screen uses his last breath to ask his son Gabriel (David Dencik) where his other son is. We know he's snuffed it soon after thanks to Gabriel's uncontrollable reaction to the smell, which wouldn't be half as hilarious as it is were it not performed by the straight-faced Dencik, known for his solemn characters in pictures like "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "A Royal Affair." Not unlike a child stuffing GI Joes inside a house built of Legos, writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen toys with perceptions and expectations of Danish cinema throughout his film. Perhaps it's limited to an outsider's point of view, but the Danes are commonly thought of as a serious, surgical, and brooding bunch, expertly excavating through human nature's dark corners. Jansen's own screenplays, "A Second Chance" and Oscar-winner "In A Better...