Trying to make a comedy about the holocaust was a bad idea.

Rating: 1/10 (19 October 2017)

We've all seen our fair share of somber movies about Nazi Germany and the holocaust. Some of them are rightly on the IMDb Best-Of list (like Schindler's List). But have you ever seen one centered on humor and comic relief? No? Well, there's a reason for that. The way the main character, a goofy Jewish man in Nazi Germany, behaved lightheartedly right up until the Nazis did their Nazi thing was just absurd and frankly disparaging. His survival was clearly at stake, yet he
naively continues to look at the bright side of things as if everything is wonderful. To me, this movie is on the same level as one of the old movies with "happy slaves"; in both cases, the character is depicted as being too stupid to realize they're in a terrible situation.