Review of Jojo Rabbit (2019) by Captainhowdy — 30 Nov 2019

This film has an interesting premise, but it really doesn't know what to do with it self. It starts off as a complete farce of Nazi Germany, then switches tone to something more akin to Wes Anderson, then becomes a tale about how Nazism is wrong (yes, we knew), then becomes a bleak anti-war tale, and vacillates back and forth between all the above. Meanwhile, the central premise that this boy imagines that he is close friends with Adolf Hitler gets thrown aside after the first fifteen minutes and revisited only sporadically.

A few of the jokes land, but probably less than half of them. Enjoyable, but bit of a mess that really doesn't give us anything new.