10 Most Divisive Movies Of 2016

Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s directorial debut posed one of the great unanswered questions of cinema: can a film about a flatulent dead man also be arty? Swiss Army Man’s premiere at the world’s biggest indie film festival would suggest yes.

The fact that a good few people walked out on its Sundance premiere, apparently off-put by its puerile humour, would suggest otherwise. To be fair to those walkouts, farting is the only kind of body humour Daniel Radcliffe’s corpse character indulges in: there’s projectile vomiting and post-mortem erections too.

It did, however, find some fans who saw that beneath all the farting and erections was a touching bromance between Radcliffe’s dead dude and co-star Paul Dano’s suicidal loner and a heartfelt meditation on life, death and what it means to be human. It’ll probably be forever known as ‘the movie where Harry Potter plays a farting corpse’, but let’s not forget the real takeaway from the film. And that farts are funny.