I first came across the German novel Look Who's Back when doing some research online for a paper I was writing on the history of satire. The premise really intrigued me, but I had no idea that it had already (or at least was in the process at the time) been adapted to the screen. Of course Netflix would be the first American distributor to pick this up, because after watching it it's not really hard to tell why. It's so clearly a film that looks as if it was made for TV, I wonder if it even got a wide German theatrical release. It feels like a TV movie, the quality is like that of a TV movie, and…

Em tempos de relativismo e permissividade com discurso de ódio - que só pode ser coisa de "esquerdista doido” - você não vai assistir filme mais adequado do que o alemão “Look Who’s Back”, adaptação do livro de mesmo nome. Entrou faz pouco tempo na Netflix. Pega o link: www.netflix.com/watch/80094357

É uma comédia satírica, misturada com mockumentary, que mostra o que aconteceria se, de repente, Hitler acordasse misteriosamente no centro de Berlim em 2014. Selfies nas ruas, sucesso viral no YouTube, recorde de audiência na televisão, pode nomear.

A mão do diretor David Wnendt é um pouco pesada para provar seus pontos em alguns momentos, mas o uso do humor e o crescente da narrativa vão te manter o tempo…

A bitterly disappointing satire considering the promise suggested with the ingenious premise behind it. David Wnendt's Look Who's Back contains a number of great scenes but after establishing its target with its satire, the act soon becomes tiresome. It's such a shame because a premise like this certainly can be taken to such a great length especially when done right at least in a good example being Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator which mocks Adolf Hitler's ideals, Look Who's Back shows how inside of a modern world what he stands for just sounds like that of an insane person (which Hitler already was), but it's never as bold as it really should have been.

With a premise like this, there's…

I've come across the Reductio ad Hitlerum as an argumentative strategy before. Usually it's a pointless point to make, since comparing a person to Hitler pushes both that person as Hitler to an unrealistic moral extremity, so that what we end up comparing is not even close to what we are arguing against. However, this film establishes the first time I have seen the reductio at Hitlerum used poignantly and correctly, and in such a strange way as well.

Though it has technical imperfections mostly consisting of a lack of style, instead opting to sprinkle various individual style elements throughout (still photograhps, news fragments, Borat-style conflict documentary, internet montage, homage fiction, etc...), Er Ist Wieder Da shows us how people…

There is so much nonsense about Adolf Hitler, so many clichés and documentaries. You would think you have had enough. But this comedy is a fresh satire. There are so many jokes that you cannot count them.

My favourite part is when Adolf Hitler thinks the German Shephard dog is a lost cause and is commenting on dog breeds. And what happens next. I nearly died in a gas chamber laugh. The movie is not sick, but everyday like. It questions our moral.

It is absurd that Hitler is back again from 1945. «You cannot get rid of me», is one late remark. Now, he admires the green Party, since they want to preserve Deutschland. In this satire, not only…