Good, but it could have been more

Rating: 7/10 (5 February 2020)

I had a really bad experience watching this movie in the theater, not related to the movie itself, just that the power went off three times in the screening room, and it delayed the whole thing almost 40 minutes. Still, I'm trying by best to not consider that on my thoughts about the movie, I'm truly trying to be impartial, but I get that maybe my overall feel of the movie might have been influenced by the experience I had watching it. So, just wanna to put that disclaimer out there.
Starting with the good stuff, the acting in the movie is great, Roman Griffin Davis is really really good in the movie, as is his friend in the movie Archie Yates, this movie is for both young actors their first credit hole in anything according to IMDb, so, this is a hell of a start for both of them. Taika is also fantastic in it, even though he doesn't have as many scenes I thought he had in the movie. Scarlett Johansson is also good here, even though I don't quite get the Oscar nomination.
I love the cinematography, is a beautifully shot film, and it kind of has an "Wes Andersonish" style to it.
Besides those aspects tho, the best aspect of the movie is the comedy, the movie is so much funny in multiple times. Even though most of the time, the movie is dealing with some truly f-up stuff it gets away with a bunch of stuff by passing by it with a joke and getting a life out of you, even though you shouldn't laugh at it.
This satire aspect of it all is especially funny at first, but it short of loses it a bit when the movie goes on. I felt like it got coming back to most of the "themes" to joke about that it had already joked about.
And at the end, I felt like it didn't balance the comedy/satire aspect with the dramatic part of it. Things happen, like Jojo's mother death, that could potentially be a huge turning point, and focal point going towards the end, but it doesn't really impact his life that much. Even though the scene where he discovers her death is gorgeously executed, without even showing her face, the death itself doesn't impact as much as it should in Jojo's overall story.
And I know that most of it is supposed to be an over the top satire, that shows how bad Nazism was, and how screwed people were at the end of it all because of it. And that's fine, however, the movie isn't all an over the top satire, it has its "down to earth" moments, and because of those moments, when something that would truly impact the life of our 10 years old protagonist happens (namely his mother passing away), you kind expects that it will be approached in a certain way, and it isn't.
So the ending itself, even though it's beautiful with the "dance" callback, feels like of empty, like if they could have done more, and evolve Jojo's character a bit more. Again, I love the satire part of it, and how it does a critic of something as bad as Nazism, by making you laugh at it, but I felt like something was missing at the end, and they could have gone further with the story.
To sum up, Jojo Rabbit is a good movie, that deals with a really serious subject with a light and funny approach, it's clearly meant to be an over the top satire, but at the end, I felt like it could have gone further in exploring something that were settled up before, and developing its protagonist even more.