A High School Hitler

... or for anyone who reads mangas.(It is rumored there is a difference.)

Despite the pointless noise in the media, there's nothing here beyond a high school level rehash of Nazism ascending. If you don't know all of this already, then you weren't paying any attention in your sophomore year.

As for dramatic worth ... which do you prefer? Robert Carlyle's scrawny, squeaky Hitler? Or Bruno Ganz's grouchy, dumpy Hitler? (I'll go for Dick Shawn's spacey, singing Hitler ... at least that one was intentionally funny!)

The one good thing about this 'teen cartoon is that it comes in a completely undeserved two DVD set.

Ignore the psuedo-documentary featuring the oafs responsible for this romper room redo congratulating themselves upon what a great job they did.(Although, their dimwitted defense of why they had corporal Hitler beating his dog in an opening scene truly must be seen to be disbelieved.)

Instead, watch the documentary "Hitler: A Career" which is also on the second disk, and based upon Joachim Fest's excellent 800 page book. Watch it or read it, and you will unavoidably end up regretting wasting your time on either HTRE or "Der Untergang."

Even better, the documentary is also available on a disk by itself. Check DVD Empire, Deep Discount DVD or Amazon. Or even try your local main library!

Either way, you can see it or own it without embarrassing yourself by having these manga-nazis in your living room.


BTW: Is the plural of oaf oafs or oaves?