Offensively Unfunny and Just Plain Offensive

Rating: 2/10 (9 March 2020)

This movie is toothless in every way, the only joke it has is Hitler spewing anachronistic slang and having its actors do bad German accents. This movie completely reduces the Holocaust into "Germans just didn't know their Jewish compatriots well enough, and if they had, they would have seen them as just people." That's bunks of course, Jews were ingrained into the fabric of society in Germany, people turned on their neighbors and friends, and it wasn't out of lack of exposure, but rather blind hate. Taika Waititi has deflected critiques of the film by saying he's Jewish, which is not true (his mom is half Jewish on her paternal side) and I have seen very little mention of this, and I think it needs to be brought up, being that this film would be tasteless even if it's director was entirely Jewish. This isn't gatekeeping, just reality, people should tell their own narratives or be exceptionally careful when telling others, because when they step out of their lanes, you can get problematic stuff like this, where massive human tragedies are reduced into Wes-Andersonesque twee drivel and Nazis are portrayed as essentially good people.
The humor is nonexistent, every joke is tired and can be broken up into two categories: 1) the "we're still doing this?" joke where the humor is just because a bit is protracted beyond how long it is expected to be. 2) anachronistic slang and winking at the audience about information what we're privy to. That's it, and not a single thing evokes a single laugh. It is shockingly unfunny.