Jojo Rabbit | MOVIE REACTION | First Time Watching

We are constantly laughing our faces off and crying our eyes out on this channel. In this episode, we do both.
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[@thegorn68]

One of the best satires ever made for the big screen. An instant classic!

[@firstcityviews]

Loved it hilarious with an emotional gut punch at the end, very effective.

[@louhillen8254]

A masterpiece - to make you cry with your heart breaking & then with happiness - Taiki is a genius.

[@firstcityviews]

Absolutely! This is the first movie I've seen of his. I've only seen the What we do in the Shadows series and we love it, this was so much different than that.

[@j9lorna]

Did you pick up on the fact that Captain K and Freddy were lovers? They both had as much to lose as anyone and their uniforms at the end displayed the pibk triangle marking them out as gay. They literally went out loud and proud. With him covering for the mum and the girl, prhanising his towns defence and then ensuring Jojo was safe, i feel that he was the true hero of this movie.

[@firstcityviews]

I picked up on them being lovers but I didn't notice the pink triangles until after the fact. He was a great character, and I love the actor as well. He was in a great indie movie called Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

[@elbruces]

@@firstcityviews Sam Rockwell is one of those actors where once you notice him in two things, you start to see him everywhere. He's in a LOT of great movies.

[@firstcityviews]

@@elbruces Including the first live action Ninja Turtles movie.

[@obi-nt8ed]

He plays the pedo in green mile that man can act

[@its-aydonus6842]

@@firstcityviews Dont know if another commenter mentioned, but K is also clutching Finkels cape at the end, meaning Finkel had already died and that's all K had left.

[@aagold76]

Scar Jo and Sam got nominated, but for some reason- the Academy hardly ever nominates kids- this movie works because the boy playing JoJo is SO GOOD!

[@aagold76]

if a person doesn't cry at the 'big reveal' scene- they're inhuman.

[@wfly81]

It's very loosely based on a book that Taika's mother read and briefly discribed to him. But basically it was just enough to be get the creative ball rolling.

[@Steelburgh]

The book is excellent too but very, very different.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

𝐄𝐥𝐬𝐚:"You know what I am" 𝐉𝐨𝐣𝐨: "A Jew" 𝐄𝐥𝐬𝐚: "Gesundheit"

[@firstcityviews]

Hahahhahaa

[@firstcityviews]

Where are the horns? Under the hair...

[@rimreckable]

Scarlett will always be one of my favorite movie mothers of all time

[@firstcityviews]

She was amazing in this!

[@jillk368]

This is a work of fiction. But, it is set, obviously, within an historic context. While most reactors are amused by the scene with all the kids and old people fighting in the streets, the reality is that by the end of the war, Germany was asking its citizens to come out and defend their towns and neighborhoods, as the military was, for all practical purposes, completely devastated. So while it's a parody and looks a bit funny, the reality of it wasn't funny at all. During WWII the Axis powers, in addition to causing the deaths of over 70,000,000 people worldwide, destroyed countless acres of cities, towns, historic architecture, works of art, people's homes, food supplies and so much more. Non-military citizens all over Europe were close to starvation for a while after WWII. This movie is a work of genius, balancing parody of war with realities of war. The Hitler Youth were real. The civilians fighting was real. The resistance and its supporters were real too.

[@michaelhoward142]

I haven't yet watched this reaction (I'm about to), but none of the reactors I've previously watched seemed "amused" by the young and elderly being conscripted to fight. Their reactions were much more like seeing the young and elderly having to fight in the LOTR: The Two Towers ("Most have seen too many winters." "Or too few."). It was a very somber reminder of the desperate and hopeless situation they were in.

[@firstcityviews]

@@michaelhoward142 I don't remember if I laughed at any of those moments but if I did it wasn't because I think it's funny that old people and children had to fight, it's because this movie did a great job of illustrating the absurdity of the situation.

[@shannonbutler-williams7261]

Yeah, in the Battle of Berlin, 11-12 year old boys were fighting and if they tried to run, they'd be shot if they were found to have bullets. The main ones I don't think were expected to fight were women and girls, which is one of many reasons the Nazis really did not see the Soviets being able to dominate. Women straight up didn't fight, yet as they encroached into Russia, women were sniping them from trees not even including the antics of the Night Witches.

[@jillk368]

@@shannonbutler-williams7261 Wow.

[@lou4073]

Good you got the ‘device that emits annoying music to dishearten the enemy’ bit👍

[@firstcityviews]

I probably wouldn't have noticed if Kelly hadn't pointed it out.

[@rainydaydreamawy]

Should have won the Oscar

[@firstcityviews]

The kids who plays Jojo definitely gave an award worthy performance.

[@Mirrori]

Taika Waititi won Oscar for adapted screenplay from this.

[@ThePorpoisepower]

The Oscar's are a glorified popularity contest, A good marketing team and being release at the right time will allow a not quite Oscar worthy performance/movie win over better alternatives

[@phillipridgway8317]

@@firstcityviews This was his first acting job.

[@allendever949]

Great reaction from both of you. I always catch every JoJo Rabbit reaction. Saw no inappropriate laughter whatsoever.

[@firstcityviews]

Thanks! Seems like some people completely focus on the darker sides of the story and forget that there is a cartoon version of Hitler saying and doing ridiculous things.

[@alexflorea4879]

Only 3 hours remaining until the premiere at midnight here in Romania, now I have a strong reason to stay awake😊 .

[@firstcityviews]

Thanks for sticking with us!!!

[@YoureMrLebowski]

i always liked going to a midnight showing.

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

Fun fact: It was the kid's first screen role. Knocked it out of the park in one turn.

[@missydemeanors1760]

It took me some time afterward to understand that the reason it worked so well was that all of what we were laughing at was not funny in the traditional sense, but absurd - that children would be trained for and sent into war, that adults would have children "for a cause", train children to hate, kill, spread and be indocrinated into wildly illogical propaganda . We laugh because it seems ludicrous,and yet it all happened. We have the distance from that history to find it all nonsensical - but it happened. The Hitler character was the indocrination personified n the child's mind, put there by a hateful movement and the adults that children trusted. That is why it was so satisfying to see him give H the boot at the end....he was ridding himself of the last of the bigotry and hate put there by the adults.

[@ThomasVanhala]

Some of the funny things is sad when you look at it from another perspective. When JoJo ask his imaginary friend Hitler of he thinks he is ugly and Hitler answer yes it is really JoJo thinking he is ugly. I know some people is confused about Hitler wearing the native american feather headdress but that is because Hitler was a fan of wild west stories and the national socialists did like a lot of whet the US did like the Jim Crow laws.

[@mynameisjd9086]

Loved yalls reactions, the shoe scene makes me cry every time. If Yall want another suggestion, I would try Knives Out, which is a mystery, drama, comedy. New subscriber! 👏

[@firstcityviews]

Thanks for subbing! This was a fantastic movie!

[@jillk368]

Great reaction, guys.

[@firstcityviews]

Thank you! It's an amazing film.

[@princeoffriendship]

I love how expressive you are! Loved the film also watched it recently and started looking for reactions! Every character is unique and the transition from comedy to drama was done so beautifully! Something that people have not mentioned on the comments is that captain K and his lover were a secret couple and by the end of the film they are shown wearing those pink triangles on their uniform that Nazis used to stick on gay people to mark them as unworthy or whatever, but here they are, knowing that they would most likely die and chose to wear them proudly. Captain K helped the kid in many ways, because he promised to his mother to look after him. He even hurried home after his mother was hanged to check on him (carrying his mother's bike perhaps). He was not a Nazi at heart but he was forced to pretend to be one, could also be one of the reasons he stayed back and did not go to war.

[@firstcityviews]

You could tell he had reservations about the war even early on in the film. I picked up on the fact they were lovers but totally missed the pink triangles. I loved how his lover was just shooting off at nothing and not even looking where he was firing.

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

Your Wife need sometimes a hug from you!!! 😊❤

[@zylophonia]

jojo rabbit is my fav movie of probably all time; waititi is so intelligent in terms of the balance between genres & the film is always enjoyable but also jarring to watch. it's based on the book "caging skies" by christine leunans (i read it a few years ago) but is entirely different in tone... most of the plot is different too. i love taika and all his films (and i appreciate dry kiwi humour lol) but i think this one is prob his greatest work thus far

[@firstcityviews]

We love What we do in the Shadows, other than that this is the only film of his we've seen.

[@michaelhoward142]

I just discovered your channel -- and what a great introduction. I will definitely be checking out more of your reactions. Thank you so much!

[@firstcityviews]

Thanks for subbing! Hope we don't let you down.

[@michaelhoward142]

@@firstcityviews I was just looking through your list of previous reactions and you seem to react to many of my favorite movies. I think I'll be busy catching up! Thanks again!

[@stuwhiteman3810]

Great reaction guys, I've watched this movie a thousand times and it still makes laugh and cry absolutely brilliant.

[@firstcityviews]

Thanks for being one of the few commentors that realize this movie is also a comedy. We've been chastised for "laughing too much" at a movie with a cartoon version of Hitler lol. It definitely has some heavy hitting emotional moments but I'd say this movie is at least 85% comedy.

[@stuwhiteman3810]

Thanks for the reply guys, but yeah I wouldn't worry about them as the saying goes we can't please every body. They say the movie was controversial but yet it won many awards? Your reaction is probably going to be the same but don't stop reacting we need to see honest opinions. That's what reactions are all about 👍

[@rx7dude2006]

His best film in my opinion.

[@firstcityviews]

Haven't seen any others besides Ragnarok but we love the What we do in the Shadows series.

[@bethscott4330]

Great job. You’ve got yourself a new subscriber!!!

[@firstcityviews]

Thanks so much!!! Check out some of our other reactions, plenty of comedy and tear jerkers, which this movie had both.

[@Vlad.Larionov]

Great reaction! It is really interesting to see your joint detailed reaction to the film Robocop 1987. This is a very cool classic 👍🔥🦾

[@firstcityviews]

I've seen it but it was a LONG time ago, pretty sure Kelly has not seen it.

[@Vlad.Larionov]

Great! It will be very interesting to see your reaction even if you have already seen this movie👍

[@edwardthorne9875]

The rumor that Jews had horns was due to a mistranslation from the book of Exodus. The famous statue of Moses by Michelangelo had them, and perpetuated the image. Amazing movie and reaction!

[@firstcityviews]

Thank you! Didn't know that about Michelangelo, that's crazy!

[@chickennoodlesoup3301]

Taika is kind of known for his Happy/Sad films.

[@firstcityviews]

So I've heard. We've only seen Ragnarok and What we do in the Shadows, definitely need to check out more.

[@garychambers6848]

Google The Poisonous Mushroom....... Just to see how actual children's books were during the Nazis.... JoJo's book was not far off......

[@soniclyqaulan]

love this movie so much

[@firstcityviews]

Us too, about time for a rewatch just for our own personal enjoyment.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

two other "nazi comedies" that just might hit the right emotional targets are the italian "life is beautiful" (1997) and the czech "i served the king of england" (2006). along side "jo jo rabbit" these films form a grand trilogy of anti-fascist cinema with a comedic twist.

[@firstcityviews]

I'll check them out!

[@brucewilliams4152]

The nazis actually youth camps like that

[@firstcityviews]

I'm aware, I'm sure they were not hilarious like they were in this movie

[@AliMarie022]

​@@firstcityviews I think that a lot of the misinformation the Nazis spread really was out there and ridiculous & part of where the humour of this movie comes from- the "Heil" scenes are funny because of how dumb and pointless it is to have to repeat that so much, it did a good job of telling the story from a Nazi Youth perspective while very clearly laughing *at* them not *with them.

[@lachielvaher9168]

Tika said that his mother read the book and described it to him. This movie is the story has his mother described it to him. NOT as the book actualy is. Caging Skys share a lot of plot points but is NOT funny, and far more heartbreaking and infuriating.

[@firstcityviews]

Interesting! I'll definitely have to look into it.

[@dw2250183]

The forced laughter is kinda annoying. The movie is fantastic though

[@firstcityviews]

Nothing forced, totally organic, great movie.

[@glen1ster]

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[@firstcityviews]

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[@arrow5599]

who frammed roger rabbit chris lyod ..steve merchent

[@5f4ohno]

You don't seem to understand the seriousness of what was happening during ww2. This movie has a back and forth humor. But your over laughing at certain times was just a little over done. Just saying.

[@firstcityviews]

I disagree, but thanks for you opinion Karen.

[@5f4ohno]

@@firstcityviews Im talking about him not you. Hahahahahaha

[@firstcityviews]

I was calling you Karen, you are talking to him right now.

[@5f4ohno]

@@firstcityviews That puts what I said in perspective. Good job. Im a Chad by the way.

[@firstcityviews]

@@5f4ohno Any specific examples?