A Dearth of Jokes

Rating: 3/10 (24 December 2019)

Considering it's meant to be a comedy, Jojo Rabbit lacks enough jokes to sustain the entertainment for nearly two hours. Perhaps that's just a sign of these dreary repressive age we are living in, where jokes are considered so potentially offensive, that writers fear to employ them. They did invoke irony though, for example the film opens with a Beatles song then later there is a scene reminiscent of one of those Beatles bonfires they would hold twenty years later in the Great Satan. And then Adolf didn't have strikingly blue eyes, whereas Elsa did. This was about as amusing as SNL, but unlike SNL it was "so white". I didn't notice any GIs of color or oriental Soviets and who is mandating stormtroopers and Gestapo officers have to be played by white men? If you really want to watch humorous drama with an Aotearoan touch, you'd be better off watching the Brokenwood Mysteries.