Thomas Eje Movies
- 1990
In this frenetic detective comedy, punctuated with many explosions and car chases ending in crashes, a detective who lacks the sense to come in out of the rain persistently tracks a gang of heroin smugglers in the almost futile hope of ending their activities and bringing them to justice. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Ole Ernst, (more)
- 1989
The main attraction of this comedy is to see the popular Danish rock group Shu-bi-dua in action. The story puts Johnny Jazz Sr. (lead singer Michael Bundesen) in with a group of soldiers who rescue a woman who ran a resort in Jutland. The soldiers learn from her that her hotel was taken over by a German officer to hide something in. Johnny Sr. returns home and passes this story on to his son Johnny Jazz Jr. (also Michael Bundesen), who, together with the sons of the other soldiers in the rescue squad, seeks out what he now believes to have been the missing gold of the Third Reich. Along the way, they run into ghosts of all sorts, and they discover that the gold wasn't where they thought it was. The soundtrack is provided, of course, by none other than the group Shu-bi-dua. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Eje
- 1987
In this madcap comedy, Svend Aage (Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen) and Niels Peder (Ole Stephensen) team up to help a damsel in distress and an impoverished count. It seems that the count has a big farm or, in the more elegant prose befitting a nobleman, one might call it an "agricultural estate." A sleazy alliance of a chemical plant and a supermarket want to get the estate from the count for the cost of his outstanding debts. However, the count has one ace in the hole: a red cow that moos to indicate which horse to bet on in the Sunday races. Sunday is also when the count's debts come due. Svend is a footloose horse-trading type, and Niels is simply eager (usually to spend time with pretty women), but together they take on the challenge of extricating the count from his predicament. Along the way, they borrow routines from the Marx Brothers, from Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and a host of others. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ole Stephensen, Axel Ströbye, (more)
- 1986
This is a good animated feature with lots of action that's suitable for older youngsters and adults. Valhalla, where the gods live and the souls of dead warriors are enshrined, is filled with powerful spirits like the supreme Odin (voice of Mark Jones) who is the creator of the cosmos and the god of war and death. Thor (voice of Stephen Thorne), the god of Thunder, is there too. He is also connected to war and rain, as well as the English word "Thursday" (Thor's day). Back in ancient times, humanity was divided between allegiance to Thor and allegiance to his enemy Loke. These two rivals follow a rainbow bridge from Valhalla to the land of the Giants, where grungy, Maurice Sendak-type monsters bash each other around. Battles and trickery ensue, involving human and godly characters in a struggle for supremacy. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stephen Thorne, Alan Corduner, (more)
- 1986
The polite Walter (Ole Stephensen) and his loud friend (in both personality and fashion) Carlo (Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen) first appeared together in Walter & Carlo: Op På Fars Hat (1985), an alarmingly popular piece of old-fashioned low comedy. Few critics clamored for a sequel -- Walter and Carlo were no Olsen Gang -- but it came anyway. This time, however, the audience stayed away in droves, but that didn't deter the filmmakers, who issued a third film, Walter & Carlo i Amerika, which crash landed with an even larger thud in 1989. The story of Yes, Det Er Far was ostensibly about senior citizens forced by high taxation to smuggle cheap coffee on the ferries from Sweden, but in reality it was merely an excuse for Saturday Night Live-ish television personalities Ole Stephensen (a former reporter, believe it or not) and Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen to do their patented schtick. It seemed a good idea at the time -- so much so that the then Danish prime minister, Poul Schlüter, made a cameo appearance as himself. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen, Kirsten Rolffes, (more)
- 1984
Stunning photography of icy tundra does not make up for dramatic weaknesses in this average story about a brother searching for clues to the death of his sibling in a forbidding environment. Erik (Thomas Eje) is newly divorced and a depressed, despairing man who arrives in Greenland after his brother died in a hang-gliding accident. He eventually moves in with an Inuit woman Soerine (Naja Rosing Olsen) and her son Nikki, whom Erik suspects is his dead brother's child. His search and suspicions are punctuated by other subsidiary, mini-dramas, and long, sweeping vistas of the ice-bound landscape. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Eje, Rasmus Lyberth, (more)
- 1983
Kurt and Valde (Lars Knutson and Arne Hansen) are a down-on-their-luck duo who seem destined to bumble their way through life riding high on farce and outrageous fortune, yet director Hans Kristensen has opted to round out their human traits -- a noble idea, but it is at odds with the slapstick-style humor. Both men have been dodging hotel bills as they move from one place to the next, when suddenly they find themselves (in disguises) mistaken for the buddies of an inventor who has just accidentally blown himself up before his formula for an artificial gasoline could be handed over to the proper authorities. Now people believe that Kurt and Valde have the formula -- and the chase is on. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Arne Hansen, Olaf Ussing, (more)
