I was looking forward to this movie, unfortunately it was over promoted and fell very flat on some key moments that could have been very clever and funny. I kept expecting a punch line, then the scene was over. Some of the humor was almost too cliche, that wasn't really funny.

They should have had Noah Taylor play Adolf Hitler, see tv Series "Preacher." All through the movie I kept thinking, this was something Wes Anderson should have done. After watching "Moonrise Kingdom," I was hoping Jojo Rabbit was going to be as funny, witty, serious, charming, and delightful, but it wasn't.

There were plenty of opportunities to expand the supporting characters with more humor. Most of the supporting cast was mute, where there was again missed opportunity to make this movie stick.

The serious moments toward the end were good, but it didn't do the first 3/4 of the movie justice. The kids who played their roles did a great job, but I feel the lead role of Jojo's script was lacking. Either too much fear, or not enough depth to his character. His mother's script and role just didn't fit into any of that, which threw off his character.

Sam Rockwell as the Captain, his role was by far the best, and made the whole movie. The choice in music was not a good match and lessened it to a degree of just being all over the place and didn't fit.

I wanted to enjoy this movie, but all I could think of was that it fell flat, and was overall disappointed.