Jo Jo Rabbit, not sure how to take this film, parts are beautiful and yet it's a simplistic film which because of this to be misses the mark spectacularly. The soundtrack is wonderful a combination of well known songs, mainly sung in German and a big plus point for Love's Everbody's Gotta Live, nice to hear a track from Love that isn't from Forever Changes. The score itself is simplistic with a Germanic underscore courtesy of Michael Giachino, who I've never heard of before, and will investigate further).

What if the film itself, young boy Jo Jo joins the Hitler youth, much to the annoyance of his mum who is part of the underground resistance, who unbeknownst to Jo Jo, is keeping safe a young Jewish girl in her loft .

Jo Jo isn't cut out to be a true Nazi, although he does speak to a imaginary Hitler played by the director and writer Taika Waititi. This is where the film fails, having a comedic Nazi/Hitler isn't very original (The Producers being the most obvious one) and having Hitler camping it up is grotesque when considering his part in the holocaust and his Nazi ideology. The developing relationship is lovely between Jo Jo and Elsa, and watching their friendship turn from deep mistrust to friendship, trust and love is a delight. Oh yes I forgot to say I believe the movie is a comedy drama, not for me it's portrayal of the fall of the Third Reich and the destruction of the town in the movie is too clean and calm. It's a lovely film with lots of flaws, so for that I will have to give it a 7/10 and that's for the young actors, Jo Jo's friend Yorki in his paper uniform is a delight and of course the soundtrack is fab. Oh yep it got an Oscar, not in my eyes matey.

An acquaintance of mine states " Ha ha - you slag off a film, says it misses the mark spectacularly, and then give it 7" he pictures himself as a budding Kermode, when clearly I'm a more intellectual Barry Norman "It misses the mark as a critique of Nazi germany, but good as a study of a relationship with a great soundtrack" I added. My job is done here, I cannot move on to view and review some more cinematic gems or jellies.