Did they actually try to make the holocaust worse?

Rating: 2/10 (5 May 2015)

If the point of this movie was to show British children in today's society that mommy and daddy might be capable of atrocities in the name of what is proper, then I would be willing to give this movie a break. If the movie was meant to appeal to adult audiences who have at least a marginally understand of the holocaust, then this movie fails in the worst possible way. If this was an animated film with bunnies and less glamorous animals, I would think the first scenario was possible. Since this was a live-action movie, I'm afraid the latter scenario was what the director intended to convey. It's insulting that a beautiful little German boy had to be the star of this movie when there were 6 million other reasons that should have been every bit as convincing, or more so considering the facts of the matter. They did a lot of the technical movie things right when they made this movie, but they overlooked the fact that it was complete insulting to the millions of Jews who died in the holocaust and the people who fully understand the horror of Nazi Germany.