Jojo Rabbit

Talking About Fascism has Never Been This Fun                 4/5
















Rotten Tomatoes 79%                                  Cinemascore: N/A


Jojo Rabbit incorporates as much insight and thought as it does playfulness and humor while inspecting The Third Reich through the eyes of an impressionable boy. The film is soaked Taika Waititi's signature tone, but is elevated further with a healthy injection of heart and meaning. Jojo Rabbit is a unique sort of coming of age story about a boy coming to terms with the world around him. Roman Griffon Davis excels in the title role. Other standouts include Johansson as Jojo's mother and Rockwell as a handicap officer who oversees Jojo's "community service" (but when is Rockwell ever not excellent). The true standout of Jojo is its screenplay; Waititi casting himself as Hitler is not a tool used to personally poke fun at Nazi absurdism, but a narrative devise used to frame Jojo's own perception of fascist ideology and how it changes throughout the plot. This type of insight and risk in film is not only uncommon, but wholly original in style and tone. Jojo Rabbit is funny, touching, and dark all woven together in harmony; in a phrase its profoundly human. A must see for anyone remotely curious.