“What do we do now?”

From Jojo Rabbit.

Ten-year-old Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a part of Hitler’s youth program to serve his country.  A weekend army training camp leads to him being nickname Jojo Rabbit because he refuses to kill a bunny; Jojo feels the weekend can’t get any worse until his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), pushes him to be bold, which results in an accident that sends Jojo home, scarred and limping.  While his injuries are not life-threatening, they are enough for his mother (Scarlett Johansson) to hold his camp commander, Captain K (Sam Rockwell), and leaders (Alfie Allen and Rebel Wilson) responsible, and tasks them with giving JoJo a job so he doesn’t feel left out.  So while his best friend (Archie Yates) trains for war, JoJo’s left hanging posters, desperately trying to be a good Nazi.  One day, when JoJo hears something upstairs, he goes to investigate and finds a Jewish girl named Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie) living in his attic.  Elsa doesn’t look as scary as JoJo was told Jews would be, but he lets her stay both because he knows that his mother is the one that hid her upstairs and because Elsa threatened him into secrecy. JoJo’s left struggling to find a way to get Elsa out of his house without getting his mother in trouble for harboring a Jew while the rest of Germany prepares for the end of the war. As Jojo keeps his knowledge of Elsa secret from his mother, he begins to notice how his mother’s ideologies goes against everything that Nazis stand for, which results in a confused little boy who wants nothing more than to be a man people can be proud of.

Surprisingly hard-hitting comedy with lots of heart are scattered around a difficult topic to create a movie quite different from all the rest.  While the mockery in the film will be offputting to some viewers, most will recognize the title character’s struggle between right and wrong as everyone is telling him to him to do.  Jojo Rabbit is a movie that draws its comedy from a terrible time in history, reminding all of the dangerous power of hate.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 108 minutes |Genre: comedy/satire/drama |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 2 of 10

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