This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Jojo Rabbit opens in the US on Oct. 18, in Australia on Dec. 26, and in the UK on Jan. 3, 2020.
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At the start of Jojo Rabbit, the Fox Searchlight fanfare segues into a Hitler Youth song, while the opening credits feature stock footage of Aryan children performing ‘Heil Hitlers’ to a German-language version of I Wanna Hold Your Hand. This should give you a clue that Taika Waititi’s new film – a very loose adaptation of Christine Leunen’s 2008 novel Caging Skies – is flirting with bad taste from the off.
Yet while the film’s approach to World War II events is unsettling – and its comic coming-of-age story frequently outrageous – Waititi and his talented cast find tenderness and humanity in the material, making this a period piece that couldn’t be timelier. The film’s central conceit is certainly a headline-grabber – kid receives counsel from his imaginary friend, who just happens to be Adolf Hitler. But while that aspect of the story has been placed front-and-centre in the film’s early marketing materials – and dominates the movie’s opening scenes – JoJo Rabbit is about much more than that, with a very different friendship at the heart of proceedings.
Source: IGN.com Jojo Rabbit Review