Nazi Week: Heeeeere's Hitler!

Hitler - funny ha ha or funny ironic? Maybe both. Probably neither. It seems that German film critics aren't quite ready to laugh at the first comedy about their former beloved evil dictator. Strange considering the German reputation for smiles, sunshine and general good timery.

Swiss Jewish director Dani Levy's ""Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler" which portrays the barbarous megalomaniac as a bed-wetting drug addict is being panned for its largely unfunny slapstick and limp jokes (ooh, tough crowd).

The plot: fictional Jewish acting coach Adolf Grünbaum is plucked from a concentration camp (yay!) by Joseph Goebbels to get the depressed (aww) dictator back in shape for a mass rally to reinvigorate the German people.

Finally. A movie that combines the hilarity of holocaust Germany with totally appropriate empathy for a madman.

Official site: http://www.meinfuehrer-derfilm.de/

Article (great title): http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,458387,00.html