When this was first release and even when the trailer was released i could wait to go and see this film. As the time passed i never got a chance to see it at the cinema. With the reviews raving and everyone i knew who had seen it telling me its the best, i had to give it some time. Nearly 3 years of time!

First things first i cannot say this is a bad movie, Taika Waititi is one of a small selection of directors and writers that are able to convey such hilarity next to such horror. That certainly delivers here! As you think the story is flowing nicely that everything will end up ok and then bam we are hit with a sucker punch moment that doesn't derail the story but shows truly how bad it was. The pure satire of this movie is not lost on me, never finding much of the stupidity of the film funny but just shaking my head that so many people were able to believe this in real life. The whole film is centered around the boy and his imaginary friend of Hitler that he believes is the true maniac. There are so many details throughout this film showing how little the German public actually knew about Hitler. The stand out is the dinner table scene with him eating all the finest meats but Hitler was a vegetarian!

The propaganda machine certainly done its job right throughout the war with nearly everyone involved saying that Germany was winning the war and ready to fight until the last child, yes child! The Hitler youth were inducted into the front lines when Hitler killed himself and thats not changing here.

Stand out performance from Sam Rockwell is scarily accurate of how a small town German offical might have behaved during the end but overall its a film that has many layers to it. People who dont know much else will find it funny, others will find it stupid and then theres the cases of not truly understanding the film but understanding that this was something that could and most likely have happened during the closing years of WW2.