Post by Ladyfingers on May 31, 2020 14:57:47 GMT
This really has its moments and can be genuinely funny, although its comedy is played far too broadly for the absurdity of the premise to feel effectively satirical. Oliver Masucci gives a pretty great performance as Hitler, and it's sad the tone wasn't a little drier to exploit it.
The political points it makes are a little too on-the-nose not to feel preachy instead of acerbic (although Hitler choosing the Greens as the party mostly closely aligned with his own beliefs is some deft skewering).
The Sacha-Baron-Cohen-esque candid stunts vary from hilarious to uncomfortable, but also feel a bit like low-hanging fruit. You can always find terrible yobs to validate your political concerns. It's quite hard to spot which encounters were staged and which were scripted.
It's also overlong.
The political points it makes are a little too on-the-nose not to feel preachy instead of acerbic (although Hitler choosing the Greens as the party mostly closely aligned with his own beliefs is some deft skewering).
The Sacha-Baron-Cohen-esque candid stunts vary from hilarious to uncomfortable, but also feel a bit like low-hanging fruit. You can always find terrible yobs to validate your political concerns. It's quite hard to spot which encounters were staged and which were scripted.
It's also overlong.