I love this movie so much

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I saw this movie in high school. By then, the movie was more than 15 years old.Acting might not have been the greatest, but I didn't really notice. It wasn't unbearably overacted, anyways.Some have mentioned the movie is dated, but hey, it's 1981. 26 years old at the time of writing. Star Trek is dated, but it's still a great show.The plot. Well, kids want to know how people got caught up in Nazism, and the teacher, having difficulty explaining, decides to demonstrate to them by creating an atmosphere of order and discipline.The impact: Brrrrrr! This was down-right chiller, since when one watched it, one realized that it could so easily happen anywhere, as it was perfectly true to simple human nature. One of the scariest movies I have ever seen, and not a masked madman in sight.

I remember learning a world war two unit at school and i saw this movie. over all i thought it was okay. A really good plot outline some okay acting, a pretty low budget film for an after school special.Now i figure, what if someone took the time to actually make it into a real movie. With famous actors actresses and a good director. Should it be done, will people go out and see it. I think so, if they take the real story and actually make it good. I think that it can be done and it should, just as long as they make it right and not corny like this after school special.What do you think, should it be done? If so, what actors actresses, directors, produces should do it.

This may be the second worst TV movie ever made, only Overdrawn at the Memory Bank maybe worse but that at least had Raul Julia. But this is one bad, predictable and cheesy movie that I was forced to watch in school. Firstly it is incredibly overacted and all the performers were way over the top it became funny. Secondly you knew that it was going to be some moral lesson about Nazism since that's how it started and once they went to meet "the leader", it would turn out to be Hitler. Finally, it was incredibly cheesy, they were completely oblivious that it was exactly like the Nazi party. Even with the armbands, symbol, salute, creed, signs, followers only two people were able to figure out that it was like the Nazis. Hell if they started killing Jewish people I don't think they would have figured it out. Someone behind me kept commenting 'this doesn't happen in the real world' and she was damn sure right. Back in the early eighties this movie may have worked but today it's so incredibly dated it becomes pretty bad but laughably funny like a Plan 9 from Outer Space. The whole entire class ridiculed the movie but not very well. The movie would only be good with a guy named Mike or Joel and two robots in the bottom right corner.

I just watched this in my Social Psychology class and I was impressed even though the film is a bit melo-dramatic. Great if you want to see how easy it is to influence young people, those without friends and to see how easy it was for German's to grow under the influence of Nazi Germany.This kind of thing can happen at any time, and the movie shows just how easy it is.Doing a study for psychology, then this is a good film to watch