Sadly Over-hyped

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Just watched "Look Who's Back" which I expected to be a full-blown comedy satire, as a movie it's very smart with tons of cultural references and is very funny in general.But the movie also commented on real-life political situations or climates in Germany and Europe. going as far as mixing real people and their reactions in the movie alongside the actors and their acting.This movie was a funny, smart, thrilling, yet pretty genuinely chilling piece of cinema. So many scenes serve as mirrors and reflect on our mindsets as a society.It's better than Downfall and is probably the best movie-documentary I've ever watched.Totally recommending this movie to anyone knowledgeable of history, cultural references and socio-politics matters who wants to have a laugh, yet a very serious and surreal experience.

Recently caught this on Netflix. I like satirical comedy about taboo subjects. Got hooked by the movie's original preposterous premise, that Adolf Hitler, of all people, has been resurrected and returns to life to Berlin about 70 years after his suicide. For the first half of the movie the director has fun with this notion, although much of it is the amazement any person would have from post 20th century on in returning 70 years after their death…the incredible inventions and technological breakthroughs that have come at a breakneck pace are mind boggling. There is also a similarity between "LWB" and "Borat" as this is done in a mockumentary style, as the citizenry in Germany react to the sight of a man who resembles and reacts as Hitler going through day to day like in modern Deutschland. Good enough and there are some funny and outrageous moments and Nazi Germany can be cleverly satirized, as Mel Brooks did with the "Springtime for Hitler" sequence in "The Producers" or as in the underrated 60's sit-com, "Hogan's Heroes." But "LWB" descends into a not so subtle comment into what the left perceive as racist xenophobia. That is the very real threat to Germany and virtually all of Western Europe of the invasion of Muslim refugees, who have absolutely no interest in assimilating into the prevailing culture. I might also add that if Hitler were to come back today he would find he shares a common conviction with most of the Muslim world. Absolute and complete anti-Semitism that can only be satisfied by extermination of the Jewish race.

How to make a comedy out of very tragic events and characters? Adrian Brody did it in "Life Is Beautiful" about life in a concentration camp. "Look Who's Back" does it via the premise that Adolf Hitler returns to modern day Germany. Of course everyone believes that he is an actor - one who disturbingly never steps out of character. The audience knows that he cannot - as he actually is Hitler. Much of the film is humorous as Hitler tries to reestablish himself as "The Fuhrer" and tries to understand and cope with modern day technology and attitudes.Oliver Masucci is brilliant as Hitler -playing the role so straight that he became very scary near the end. The brilliance of Hitler was aptly demonstrated as people began responding to the hate - filled rhetoric he employed on various television shows. In real life the industrialists supported Hitler because they were sure they could control him - they could not. The church supported him because they thought he would be useful to them and that they could control him - they could not. Finally the German Army threw in with him because they wanted to get rid of their rivals - Hitler's "brown shirt" Army - the Sturmabteilung (SA). He got rid of Strasser and Rohm and thousands of others as he dismantled the organization which carried him to power. But alas the Army also could not control him.In the movie, he becomes a media star because of viewership and ratings. We see glimpses of the audience saying like "I think I agree with him, and he makes a lot of sense." The TV moguls are building their careers on his outrageousness and resulting popularity.His grasp on people is creepy, insidious and feels quite realistic. This film shows you how riveting he could be - and gives you a glimpse into how he came to power. So, beyond laughs - the message clearly is that this could happen again. We must be aware of potential dictators in our midst. A few people in the movie saw that he really was Hitler - and they were discarded at the end of the movie.This movie is not a condemnation of Germany - past or present. Hitler in the movie postulates at the end of the film that we cannot get rid of him - because he is a part of us. I hope that is not true.

Although I wanted to write a long description about this movie, I felt that it not deserves any description but this: The directors of this movie want convince the Germans once again that they are the most racist people on the planet, they are guilty of everything, and because of this they are not allowed to think about anything which happens around them. The only message of this movie is: Hitler lies in all of Germans like the seeds of the Devil, making them all a nation of evil. This is not different from the Nazi propaganda that the Jews are all parasites, who want to take over the world. It surprises me that those who think about themselves that they are democrats, anti racists and antifascists, hating all things related to these, like the producers of this movie, as I obviously understood after watching this film, do not notice that they are doing the same thing, what the Nazi propaganda had done against the Jews, Romanis and other minorities. But this time, they do it against the Germans, and this seems to be very OK, very PC for them! Watching this movie it is hard not to feel that some conspiracy theories are not conspiracy theories at all... I am feeling that this movies only purpose was to make the Germans to feel guilty, in order to make them fully receptive for the migrant invasion which was about to start, when the movie was made...