Mein Führer: Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler.

So Mein Führer: Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler) - a comedy - opens in Germany today, and so far, advance word is... "It just isn't funny enough, say reviewers." David Crossland reports for Spiegel Online.

Writing in the New York Times, an a seemingly baffled Mark Landler finds that what's "more surprising and revealing, perhaps," than the "mixed reception" in Germany to "the first German-made film comedy about Hitler" is "the nature of the critiques, which have lambasted the movie but not the idea that Hitler could be the subject of a comedy." Critics and commentators are "proclaiming the film naïve, bizarre, vulgar and - most damning of all - not funny."

Signandsight translates Harald Martenstein's piece in Die Zeit: "Dani Levy can't have intended to be a Hitler-sympathiser, it happened by mistake."

Posted by dwhudson at January 11, 2007 12:31 AM