Most Preposterous Plot of 2008

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2009)

This started off quite well. My wife has read the book and said it was much better, with much more from the child's point of view and more humour. The actual premise about a child not understanding the Nazis was quite good at first, but it just got stupider by the minute.
What we got was a TV level budget. Don't build an actual Concentration Camp, just go to an old RAF base in England and film one corner of the fence. Behind the Jewish boy was a pile of broken concrete stanchions from the derelict base. - In every shot! Why were there no double wire, electric fence, booby traps and machine gun towers (on the corner - doh! The most obvious place to put one ! )? Answer - so that the kids could sit and play unseen by the guards. Utterly preposterous. Then it had to get really stupid. The only person in history to break INTO a prison. Then he gets taken into the gas chamber without getting his ID number checked ? Unbelievable. I have seen more believable plots on Smallville or Charmed.
Oh, and I've just noticed the box art. The ridiculous tower-free fence corner is misrepresented as a straight fence, and the broken stanchions from the derelict RAF camp are not shown. Did the artist realise how stupid it was ?