Review: Taika Waititi's uneven satire 'Jojo Rabbit' is at its best making Nazis, and Hitler, the joke
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Oct 16, 2019
3 minutes
Unlikely though it sounds, we have a need to laugh at Adolf Hitler, on the movie screen if nowhere else.
Some of our greatest comedy directors, from Charles Chaplin ("The Great Dictator") to Ernst Lubitsch (the brilliant "To Be or Not to Be") to Mel Brooks ("The Producers"), have used der Fuhrer as a figure of fun, trying, perhaps, to make a monster more manageable by having a laugh at his expense.
Writer-director Taika Waititi's "Jojo Rabbit," the latest example of this resilient trend, shows both the pleasures and
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