The problem with Jojo Rabbit's wacky Nazis

There are too many very fine people in this comedy about an imaginary Hitler

Jojo Rabbit.
(Image credit: Illustrated | Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

Adolf Hitler and his right-hand man, Hermann Göring, visit a radio tower in Berlin. Hitler says he wants to do something that will make the citizens happy. Göring goes, "Why don't you jump?"

When that joke was told by a German armaments factory worker to her colleague in 1943, it resulted in her execution at the hands of the Nazi People's Court.

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.