I looked at several of the previous reviews of this film before watching it, and saw many positive reviews, so i thought i'd give it a try and all i can say is there must be either some easily pleased people out there or there's several fake reviews and i'm inclined to go with the latter as i've seen it happen before, so here's my honest opinion.

Firstly he plot and screenplay. Also the acting, particularly young Roman Davis who carried the film with his effortless emotional range.

As for what i didn't like...the comedy aspect, in fact calling this a comedy is stretching it way too far as it isn't remotely funny. I found Director Taika Waititi incredibly annoying and completely unnecessary, in fact, his part made the film worse, he should have stuck to direction. This would have been way better as a serious movie similar to The boy in striped pyjamas, but never can quite reach it's potential because of the unfunny scenes.

The other thing i found frustrating was the accents. They were very unconvincing to me. The obvious American twangs were always there and why were they speaking English anyway when they were Nazi's. Just doesn't make sense.

So for my final verdict, if you can stomach the movie to the last half an hour, you will be treated with some great acting and visually touching scenes that make it worth the while, just don't expect any laughs along the way.