This piece will dawn on you like a small epiphany if you come to it cold. It is both what and not what you might expect and best served to yourself as an impulsive dessert for your intellect. Just watch the gahdam thing and, I'm intuitively positive, you will think about it after and have your very own opinion(s). To those responsible, Vielen Dank!!

This movie touches an interesting topic, based on the book 'Er ist wieder da', where Hitler awakes 70 years after his death in Berlin, alive and kicking. Although this is marked a comedy, and has some funny moments, it is not really a comedy. And that also means it lacks goal; the movie does not really know what it wants to be. Comedy? Thriller? Documentary? Propaganda? The movie is carried by the good performance of the lead actor playing Hitler. As the movie progresses, it's becoming more and more a political commentary, but unfortunately of the cheap kind. One could say that as political commentary it slides into the same manipulative propaganda it condemns in Hitler ('I play people like the piano'). This movie could have been better if it had chosen for a clear direction (e.g. political commentary, or philosophical challenge to the value of democracy). Although OK, it struggles to rise above B-film status.

A movie with a great idea of Hitler waking up in our time based on the book with the same title.I liked it for the most part. I liked the idea and how it was written. Bringing the humor and at the same time sending a message with it. It is especially well done how the movie flows. At first it is more of a lighthearted comedy which gets more serious with the time and the last scenes of it are not about humor anymore but summarizing the idea of how Hitler would have a chance in our time to repeat the history. |We get the mockumentary moments where Hitler talks to people and they give him their views on current politics and what bothers them. I have looked into it and seems that they were all staged and just presented as real interviews. It is pretty well done though how most look at Hitler not as a history monster but entertainment and are exited to take selfies with him.The portrayal of Hitler by Oliver Masucci is great. He presents the Hitler energy and charismatic speaking very well. He makes us kind of like Hitler. He is that interesting outspoken guy even though in the back of our mind his crimes against humans in the past remind us of who he really is. And from time to time his actions, like killing the dog, bring us back to reality that he is not a nice human being. Yet this portrayal of Hitler as a man we are drawn to and enjoy listening what he says about wanting to improve his country instead of showing him as a caricature monster shows how we can still be influenced and manipulated these days even by somebody with the views that we are so sure we will not repeat by having learned from the past.The scenes of him talking on TV and being taken in are also a great part of it. As well as some people realizing that he is not seeing just as a comedian by people as he was in the beginning but that they actually like what he says. This is this nice transition of people being taken in but what they think is harmless entertainment and swallowing propaganda. We have also a great scene of the grandma looking at Hitler and recognizing him from the past which gives a comment on this with her remembering how at first people were also seeing him as harmless.Besides the main idea of the movie I also enjoyed some laughs at Hitler discovering the modern world. Especially him going to dry cleaning, watching TV and being upset over so many cook shows selecting the Greens as his favorite party and exploring the internet which he then sees as a great propaganda tool which it is.I guess I am just not too much into the very left wing bias which makes us think of every person who has any concerns and does not 100% agree with the left. Mind you I have never voted for the right wing. But I am irritated by every person leaning right being linked with Hitler. There is noting eye opening or revolutionary about it, it is the norm of today. Left propaganda is as real as the right one and I have felt a slight stench of it in this movie. I am interested in reading the book now because from what I have read it is not having those propaganda elements but is an intelligent book with a thought provoking message.But for the most part I liked the movie. It had it all together, a creative idea, good acting, fun and serious moments and a way to bring the view of the ones making it in a creative way.

Let me start by saying I haven't read the book, which from what I've heard is far more intelligent than this film. I'm also a liberal, therefore my criticisms of this film have nothing to do with it's targeting of conservatives, but of the film's misrepresentation of it's subjects and ineptitude in the film-making. I also am not a person who gets offended, I LOVE the concept and wish a better creative team had handled this idea. "Look Who's Back" is clearly aping off the success of Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat" and "Bruno", yet fails to realise what made those films great. 1st, the man who plays Hitler is mediocre, he is physically wrong for the part & not short as Hitler was, he towers over everyone else, which takes away completely from the comedy. He also lacks any improvisation skills, unlike Cohen, he never asks any challenging questions or manages to "trap" his victims, instead, the film heavily relies on cheap, dishonest editing. The editing is the worst aspect of the film. Not only is is poorly paced comedy- wise, but also dishonest and clearly misrepresents people interviewed. In his films, Cohen would stay with someone on screen for at least a minute, allow the viewers to become accustomed to them in unbroken, usually unedited takes, then Cohen would strike with a smart question perfectly tailored to that person. Here, interviewees are on screen for 10 seconds at the most, ensuring that all of their opinions are out of context. There is one man who literally says "I'd be willing to take a bullet for my Germany" and that's his only 3 seconds of screen time, because he is edited between 2 other people saying rather controversial things, the director is manipulating the viewers into concluding this man is a bigot, where he only said what anyone in the world would say about their country regardless of political persuasion. It's clear they had to resort to this choppy editing style due to none of their subjects were as horrible as they hoped; demonstrated by the montage, where we see snippets of dozens of improvised scenes, obviously not funny, that hit the cutting room floor.It's a tonally and stylistically confused mess. Whereas in the fore-mentioned films, the dramatised elements and mockumentary parts are interwoven perfectly. In "Look Who's Back", they constantly jump between styles, undermining our confidence in the realism of the supposed "true" moments. Because the leading role is a man playing Hitler, we can't trust answers given to him, as the vast majority of his subjects are being ironic as they give their answers, they're in on the joke, where Cohen's victims were not. There is a man early on who says that the solution to Germany's problem is "Labor Camps", which would be horrifying if there wasn't a probable chance he was taking the mickey, instead, he's on screen for 5 seconds, then never asked another question. There is nothing "sobering" or "eye opening" about anyone's opinion in this film, because everyone's opinion is tainted by the fact they are aware they are being interviewed by a comedian. The most egregious opinions are those of a few drunkards in a bar who are obviously playing up their "devotion" to "Hitler" as a joke, illustrated by the fact they are all laughing and taking photos of the actor, yet the film frames them as if they genuinely believe this. Also, every time they ask somebody about refugees, it frames every respondent that has a conflicting emotion towards the crisis as if they agree with a Hitler-Esque position. I hesitate to call any film morally reprehensible, but this film definitely rides that line in it's dishonestly and over-simplification. The non scripted scenes are the only ones that have an occasionally funny line, yet there's far too much, the side characters are dull, and it's unbelievable and contrived.The ending of the film is a ham-fisted "twist" where the message is crammed down our throats in the manner of a soap opera, as is most of the "points" the film is trying to make. The credits are particularly egregious, in suggesting Wilders and LePen are the modern equivalents to Hitler. While I dislike both those politicians, it is a reprehensible, simplistic and childish comparison from film-makers who are clearly virtue signaling. It's message is so melodramatic and self-important that it is unintentionally hilarious how pretentious it is. Tonally, "look who's back" doesn't know if it wants to be an edgy, a no holds barred offensive comedy, or a liberal think piece. It ends up as confused. I assume most of the positive reviews are from the kind of people who don't watch many foreign films, so whenever they see one, they praise it endlessly. P.S., the music in this film is all recycled from other better films (Dawn of the Dead) and uses THREE songs from A Clockwork Orange. Either use an original song, or use classical music that hasn't been so overplayed in the past. In so many respects, it feels like a film by a uni student.