James Review -Look Who's Back (2015)

 

Adolf Hitler. One of history's most infamous leaders, responsible for one of the greatest horrors in world history. For years, whenever he's appeared in a movie or a TV series, played by an actor, it's in stories set during World War II or before the war while there are occasions when Hitler appears in a story set years after Nazi Germany's defeat. Over a decade ago, German movie theaters were rocked when a satirical, comedic and dark political movie dropped, known as "Look Who's Back".

What's the plot?

Somehow, Hitler returned.

At the start of the movie, Adolf Hitler, played by actor Oliver Masucci, awakens in 2010s Germany, in Berlin, in the spot where his bunker used to be. Hitler starts exploring the changed Germany and learns everything that has happened in the last seventy years since the end of the war. One of the first people he encounters is a freelance filmmaker named Faiban Sawatski. Sawatski, like almost everyone else in the movie, believes Hitler to be an impersonator and, unlike the other characters, realizes the truth near the end of the film only to wind up in a mental hospital when he tries to get the word out. "Look Who's Back" is a comedy, but it is also serious, especially as Hitler is the focus on the movie and the story ends on an ominous note with the infamous failed painter regaining popularity and nobody realizes that it's the real Hitler.

We should all be fortunate that people can't actually come back to life. If Hitler were to come back from the dead and in modern day Germany and nobody knew it was the real Hitler, there would be a ton of trouble abound, even if things were okay in the end. I've seen this twice on YouTube, once alone, and a second time with my father, and it is a good film. In fact, not only does it turn Hitler into a joke somewhat, "Look Who's Back" actually references 2004's Der Untergang aka Downfall, which starred Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler, and Thomas Thieme, who played Martin Bormann in that movie, plays a TV station boss in this movie.

For those who like comedy, especially a black comedy, and want to see a silly Hitler film, I'd suggest watching "Look Who's Back", just be prepared for what you're getting into since the story is deep as heck and the undertones are pretty ominous.