Teddy Bear (2012)

• Year: 2012
• Released: 22 Aug 2012
• Country: Denmark
• Adwords: 7 wins & 11 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1729226/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/teddy_bear
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• Available in: 720p,
• Language: Danish, Thai, English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 92 min
• Writer: Mads Matthiesen, Martin Zandvliet
• Director: Mads Matthiesen
• Cast: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard
• Keywords: thailand, girlfriend, bodybuilder, mother son relationship,

	7.1/10
	70/100

Teddy Bear Storyline

The 38-year-old bodybuilder Dennis would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a trip to Pattaya, as it seems that love is easier to find in Thailand. He knows that his mother would never accept another woman in his life, so he lies and tells her that he is going to Germany. Dennis has never been out traveling before and the hectic Pattaya is a huge cultural shock for him. The intrusive Thai girls give big bruises to Dennis’ naive picture of what love should be like, and he is about to lose hope when he unexpectedly meets the Thai woman Toi.—SF Film

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Teddy Bear Movie Reviews

As its title suggest; this is a very cute movie.

This is absolutely a simplistic and very straightforward movie, that you can put under the slice of life, type of category. All of the drama, characters and events feel real and are also being kept deliberately small and realistic.

The movie its title is very fitting. It might sound strange for a movie that focuses on an Arnold Schwarzenegger sized body builder to have such a title but the main character, despite of his imposing size, is being a true teddy bear! A gentle giant who never gets mad at anything or anyone. He’s the type of guy that always comes across as friendly but shy and he’s also the type of friendly guy people can easily take advantage of, since he can’t really say no to anything. He’s all very well aware of this but it’s just simply part of his personality and he doesn’t have the right social skills to change anything about it. I do believe that many people, to some extend, can identify with the movie its main character, which to me was also the foremost reason why the movie worked out so effectively.

Despite his appearance, the main character seems to lack true confidence, which also makes him uncomfortable around women and maybe is also being part of the reason why he still, at the age of 38, lives at home with his mother, stuck in the situation. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if he never had a true relationship with a woman, which hurts him inside. He definitely wants to be with someone and wants to give his love and be able to express himself to someone other than his loving mother.

He’s not a loser type of person and watching this movie is not as depressing as I am perhaps making it sound right now. Like so many other people out there, he’s simply searching for love and true happiness but he’s looking at the wrong places for it. He is very well aware of this as well but the urge to find someone to be with is too big to resist any longer. I wouldn’t call him desperate, that sounds too negative for my taste but it’s more like that nothing else so far has worked out for him, so he begins looking where lots of lonely and somewhat social awkward, middle aged men look for ‘love’; Thailand.

I know I talk a lot about the movie its main character but that simply is because he’s the heart and center of the movie and everything that goes on in this movie truly revolves around him. Due to circumstances and his personality he gets himself needlessly into trouble at times.

The sort of trouble that is easy to avoid but he doesn’t want to heart anybody and he’s obviously a pleaser who wants to make everybody feel good, even if that means lying to a person who you care about.

Kim Kold is a true force to reckon with, mainly due to his size and screen presence. I’m pretty sure in certain scenes they exaggerated this a bit for dramatic effect but there is no denying this is one big guy and it’s of course no big surprise Kold himself actually is a bodybuilder in real life. I’m not saying he will be the new and next Schwarzenegger but I truly think he should be given a chance in a bigger- and international production.

No doubt this movie will be the Danish Oscar contender this year, for best foreign language movie and by all means it should be! It’s a very cute and heartfelt, straightforward movie, with real people and real life situations, that are all very easy to identify with.

8/10.

Inhibitions, an overbearing mother, feeling your age–this is moving in its simplicity

Teddy Bear (2012)

And you thought you were shy? This guy, who is all about power and presence, a massive bodybuilder, is a social misfit afraid of his own shadow. And I believe it. I almost felt sorry for the actor, forgetting the difference.

I suppose the story from the outside is overly simple–an aging bodybuilder is looking for love, but his overbearing (and tiny) mother doesn’t want him to move out and move on. So he is kind and kinder and stays and yet he has some kind of need to have a girlfriend that won’t just go away. With the secret help of an uncle, he makes a trip to Thailand. And here he meets girls, but he can hardly speak, and nothing comes of it. The second day there he finds a weightlifting gym and asks if he can work out. And all of a sudden he is at ease and himself.

And things go from there, not in any unexpected way. All of this is told with such touching restraint it makes you really involved. The leading man, Kim Kold, obviously a bodybuilder (like Schwarzenegger, you can’t fake that stuff), is really good at playing an exceedingly quiet guy, but not a stupid one. He is going to be in a Hollywood movie (“Fast and Furious 6”) this year, and who knows whether it’ll be a first step or a last one. It seems like, just because of his Hulk shaped body, he has a future at least as a character actor.

The movie, all told, might lack some kind of storytelling nuance. It is what it is on purpose, but so much so it sometimes floats a little. This kind of Indie style often works just the way life does–things are interesting, watching some new people do some new things in an undistracted way is going to be watchable. And this does that, and well. It’s because of its sincerity that you have some kind of emotional connection. But there is no magic, either, the way some films use small casts and simple touching plots and also find a way to lift the experience into something rare. (I’m thinking here of a similar movie about an aging wrestler in South America, “Bad Day to Go Fishing,” which I highly recommend.)

I don’t know the Danish film world much except that we, in the U.S., seem to get the cream of the crop and so the few I’ve seen have all been exceptional. I’d give this a look.

This is a gentle and elegant movie, not a plot movie, not a story movie

It’s a “feeling” movie. It’s about a mood, a feeling. Inside one person, searching for it in another person. The feeling is gentleness. And the pervasive powerful, insistent sense of it coming out of such a person, is just… amazing.

It’s totally a visual movie. The content and plot are nothing to be concerned with, they are Normal.

Watch how Abnormal this guy is. Watch how he persistently avoids the Normal and finds another person like himself. (She’s actually quite a bit more normal than he is)

He is a Mountain, a Monument of abnormality, dedicated to being gentle in a world that is almost completely unable to let me (or any of us, for the matter) be gentle.

And it’s Not just his nature, it’s also a dedication. And somehow he Uses that bodybuilding to reinforce his gentleness. He Moves gently.

It’s quite a performance. I have no idea who he is, or what he actually is like, nor do I care. But here, he and the director have built… and elephant of a person. Huge, powerful, and gentle.

Joy to watch.