funniest ending ever

The only way you could find this ending "funny" is if you don't have a clue about what's happening.

Peter (Robert Sean Leonard) is being taken away in a truck to a concentration camp. Hilarious! His younger brother comes running up as the truck pulls away, and he knows exactly what's happening, because it happened a lot back then.

He is aware that he will never see his brother again and that he's going to die. By shouting "Swing Heil!" at the top of his lungs in front of all the Nazis who just raided the club, he is risking his own life as well.

Yeah, that's the funniest ending ever.

We watched it in my AP Euro class this week (we finished the AP test last Friday, so we had nothing left to do for the last two and a half weeks of school). During this part, it wasn't the fact that it was way over dramatic or all that that got to me, it was the way he said it. "ZVEENG HAY-ELL! ZVEENG HAY-ELL!" I was the only person, it seemed, that was fighting laughter, but I was looking around and everyone else was stoic (probably because they realized what was happening; I did too, but God, Willi made that scene so funny...which I know he shouldn't have).

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It was so overdramatic, i felt so out of place because nobody else was laughing but me. Good thing it was dark.

Yeah it definitely had the opposite effect of what was intended!

It's sad when a scene is so unintentially funny!

I thought Willie was going to grab the umbrella and hit Thomas with it.

to a NAzi lover maybe

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Funny? It is one of the most tragic endings of any movie I've ever seen.

You do understand that his older brother was being hauled off to jail, perhaps to a labor camp? Though at the time of the story, labor/execution camps weren't well-known, people understood the Gestapo well enough to know that anyone hauled off by them was often not seen by their families or friends again.

The little brother's cry was a loud pledge that he would take up the cause
of his brother.

The Swing Kids were not simply guilty of violating Nazi laws. They were a
clear indication that, despite the worst that evil men can do, some will
rise against the evil and endeavor to make good come out of the confrontations with evil.

The Swing Kids were the German spiritual ancestors of the unknown man who stood in front of the People's Liberation Army tank in Tiananmen Square during the freedom protests of 1989, daring the driver to run him down. The protestors of Tiananmen Square wanted only what the Swing Kids wanted--freedom and the right to be themselves. Both in Germany and China, the government, instead of allowing people freedom, they dealt them death.

Swing Kids is a movie of warning as well as the clash of good and evil.