the maddeningly large ego of Roberto Benigni...

Rating: Null/10 (22 December 1998)

At first, I was highly skeptical of the slapstick silliness
which takes place during the first half of the film...flowerpots
dropped on heads, egg in the face, hat switching shinanigans,
etc. but the film does grow on you even in spite of the cliche
concentration camp depictions, and the maddening humungously
enormous ego of Benigni. A feel good movie with enough clever
moments and imaginative wonder to make this holocaust fairy tale
ring true. With a few more multi-dimensional characters and a
little more imaginative and less stereotyped ideas, this could
have been a really fantastic film. In spite of everything, film
made with a lot