Polle Fiction (2002) User Reviews

Snave: nil

[Karl Self · 3/10 · 3 November 2014]

This is based on a character created for a series of TV commercials, an enthusiastic hillbilly named Polle from a boondocks village named Snave. In the commercials, Polle would at first use a telephone with a really long extension cord before discovering the services of Danish mobile communications provider Sonofor. The message was that "our mobile phones are so simple that every yokel can use them".

The movie creates a fascinating, colourful and utterly inane cosmos around Polle, a world dipped in neon colours, decked out with kitsch and firmly stuck in the Eighties. Beware, there be Cabbage Patch Kids be crawling out from underneath the cabbage heads! And they'll be wearing mullet haircuts and drinking beer for breakfast. But it fails to tell an engaging story. There is a flimsy bit of plot: Polle has a work-related accident, and his mates tell him that he stands to receive a massive compensation cheque from the insurance company, mainly so that he will pay their rounds. Then gold-digging skank Lilian tries to get Polle to marry her by pouring washing-up liquid in his kex so that he thinks they've had sex. Yes, really. And that's pretty much it.

Much as I like the Snave world, the movie sucks. It just goes to show once more that you can't make a watchable movie without an excellent script.

The title is a play on "Pulp Fiction", by the way.

I am no longer proud to be Danish

[Riddlert · 15 July 2002]

This is a movie from Denmark, and for the first time since cartoons, im NOT proud to be Danish. This movie started as a TV comertial ( that was not funny ) It is a redneck and his redneck friends acting redneck alike and saying redneck things. That is funny the first 5 - 10 seconds. But after that you remember how EASY it is to make that kind of call B humor, and it is funny no more. The comertials have been running in Danish TV and cinemas for little over a year or so. Every time i go and watcha movie and polle and his mates go on screen to tell us what cell phone to buy this week, im have to sit on my hands, to keep me from slabbing the people laughting. Yes. Some people do laugh. I dont know why, but anyone can hear that it is a FAKE laugh. Peoplem acting like the see the bigger picture and find it funny. Not one movie lover, like this movie. It is a class c movie. It is very LOW budget. you will not like it. if you wanna watch this movie ( you must be danish and think the comertials are funny ) and you must NOT pay for it. Download it, steal it or borrow it from a friend. After 10 minnuts you will watch no more, and be glad you have not payd for it. In one word this movie is CRAP

Television ad made in to a movie...Good Idea, I don't think so!

[thomi · 1/10 · 26 July 2002]

Based on a series of highly succesfull television ads this movie is the first of its kind. Half of the productions costs were financed by the company the ads were from in the first place. Basing a movie on a television ad can probably be a good idea but it isn't in this case. The script is so marked by the time frame they had to write it in because they had to get the film out before people had forgotten the ads. It's foreseeable and that makes the movie boring to watch together with the poor acting. To illustrate the foreseeability the main character Polle meets two women in the movie and since the first one is a slut and treats him bad off course he's going to end up with the other one. This movie is so bad that it should be on a list of illegal torture tools.

Embarassing awkward humour

[andersandersen · 1/10 · 11 July 2002]

This may possibly be one of the top 3 worst films I've ever seen...

Based on the commercials from Danish TV, and sponsored by Sonofon - how could it be any different...?

The movie is awkard, racist, sexist, degrading foreigners, and the humour is just so much out of line and last but not least it is nowhere near being funny.

I mean, I am a comedy loving man, myself, and I really like dumbass, childish comedies, but this one is just not good enough, even for my standards. Try "Dumb and Dumber" or "Austin Powers" instead - then you can rest assure that you are in for a good laugh! But not with this one, baby... that is a no-no.

The characters' lines could have been written by any 8 year old kid, it is

just one long, arduous embarrasment of stupid, mindless comments, based on a plot with so little real world appeal that one could wonder how on earth that man, Søren Fauli, who directed this movie, ever was allowed a handful of money and total freedom to do whatever.... and that is just what he did, whatever, just like my final reaction ended up being. The cast is made up of the people from the tv commercials, and then there has been added a few more just for flavour, but it just doesn't do any good. People in this movie act like they take part in a prolonged commercial that is just dragging on and on and on.

Only positive thing about this movie is that it isn't very long, only about 1 1/2 hours, and even this seems too long...

So my advice to you mr. Fauli is stick to the television commercials which "Polle from Snave" was originally based on, I guess that you have proved that a 20 second plot is just about all you can handle, my good man!

Terrible but funny movie

[nikosecher · 2/10 · 18 April 2022]

The movie is absolutely garbage. The characters aren't good, the production isn't good, the plot isn't good. Honestly nothing is good apart from the fact that it is funny.

Denmark's Ernest

[hr-boege-546-170392 · 2/10 · 19 December 2012]

well, here we have one of the most strange and forgotten gems of danish movies. it is probably also one of the worst danish movies ever. you foreigners reading this can consider yourself lucky, that it (as far as i know), didn't get released in other countries. the story is about a geeky character, created by a phone company, for their commercials. we all now that a movie made on that premise, wont win awards. to sum the movie up, it is stupid and unfunny, but the actors look like they are enjoying their work. in a way that means a lot, because it makes it watchable. so all in all, stay away if you are a sane person, but if you enjoy watching other people having fun with, what they are doing, this is a movie for you. and thank god, that there isn't a sequel!

Funny movie if you have nothing else to see

[darklordsmurf-1 · 6/10 · 15 February 2009]

The character Polle is from a series of Danish commercials that ran in 2000 - 2001. It was so popular that they decided to make a movie about Polle.

Polle Fiction is without a doubt a funny movie. I enjoyed watching it! The basic plot in this movie is circling around the 30-year old Polle from a little town called Snave. He is about to be married, but has second thoughts about it when he finds his bride-to-be in bed with the local plumber and meets a girl called Zahara.

Low budget and sponsored by the telephone company Sonofon, this movie did well in the cinemas.

Den er go'kendt

[jokkedrengen · 10/10 · 1 February 2003]

Føj for den, gutter! I don't care what other people might say. This movie is funny. If you come from Denmark and don't find this funny, you are a grumpy old person who forgot how to smile. The characters may not be very realistic, but who cares? Karsten Kørelærer and Harske Hubbi are world class, nothing less... Vi sås!

Hilarious movie.. if ur danish.

[enirp · 9/10 · 7 July 2002]

This movie is the first danish produced movie without governmental fundings. Originally a commercial runned on danish tv, now brought to live as a movie, based on sponsor money, but that does not affect the movie like one could have feared. Only twice is the company behind it mentioned, in the beginning and in the end, gotta give it up for that. The movie is incredible hilarious, but the humor in it, is very danish, and its a must to have seen the commercials on danish tv. If u do meet this demands, this movie is a good laugh. I gave it a 9, cuz its not a movie I´m gonna see again, but this one time was great.

Best Danish movie ever !

[melsen · 10/10 · 19 July 2002]

"Money, power, lust - and mud !", such reads the tagline of "Polle Fiction". Don't believe a word when people tell you this movie is bad - it's great !. Forget all those awful looking unbearable Danish films of late in the so-called Dogme style, "Polle Fiction" is quite simply the greatest comedy to ever come out of Denmark. It may be based on a series of Danish TV commercials (the movie is kept in the same style), but you forget this as you watch it. The filmmakers have succeeded in giving it the feel of a real movie. Yes, it's sleazy slapstick of the ultra offensive kind and the story is paper-thin, but so were many movies years ago and people still flocked to see them. If you're one of those who believe yourself to be a serious film fan and this silly stuff is below you, and that movies in general have changed for the better and so forth, ie. all movies today need be "intelligent" for you to (think you) enjoy them, then you really have a problem with not only humour but movies in general. "Polle Fiction" (the title is a playoff on "Pulp Fiction", obviously) is somewhat related in spirit to over-the-top type crazy and violent British TV sit-coms like "Bottom" and "The Young Ones", admittedly nowhere near as brilliantly written as those TV shows, but undoubtedly inspired by the mad antics of Rik Mayall & Co. The story is simple: the one good guy in the movie (in the whole town really), Polle, is constantly bullied by his "friends" at work, Heino and Jøgge, and one day he has a gruesome accident resulting in him being scalped by the giant tube they use to suck up muddy waste - that's their job, you see. It's also a love story, believe it or not. The acting, by mostly unknowns, is superb and there's a rich gallery of goofy characters; the beer drinking insane Heavy Metal and '80s German pop music crowd the ever-taunted Polle hangs out with, a vile sexist/racist/rapist driving-instructor (!), the Turkish immigrant pizza owner, a single mother (who's a stripper) with her two incredibly annoying kids, and the nutty local DJ who plays all that terrible music. Apparently the story takes place in the '80s but it might as well be today. The action is based solely in the tiny village of Snave in Denmark, and the humour is very "local" as are (obviously) the dialects. If this movie ever gets a foreign release (I've heard rumours it may) many of the funny bits will be lost in the translations, but it'll still be hilarious. "Polle Fiction" is a nice surprise, and a cool breeze in the overrated Danish movie landscape which has grown accustomed to awards and unworthy praise lately, alas, thinking too highly of itself. Let's hope there will be many sequels !.

Best!

[madshollensen-00044 · 10/10 · 11 April 2018]

Best movie EVER!!! Det er det svedigste lort jeg længe har set