I believe that every one who has seen Der Untergang, will completely disagree with you on that matter, that Er ist wieder da, is a movie that blows you away.
The entire plot is ridiculous, Hitler coming magically back to life in 2014, goes on a road trip together with one who is bit of a looser, then visits various talk shows and begin to win almost every German's heart, because they all just think he is a corny Hitler wannabe.
Its not even comparable to any WW2 related production that has been made, where they had some one playing Hitler in it.
Its down right a spoof movie on Hitler, a comedy if you even can call that mediocre movie this.
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CalibMcBolts
8 years ago
I didnt say it was better than any of the 'serious' hitler films, because ofcourse it's not better than those. I just meant that it was a good movie and came out of nowhere, it was surprisingly unique and funny, and came totally unexpected
Favorite films of all time list
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Liburnius
8 years ago
I agree, Look Who's Back appeared to come out of nowhere, at least probably for a lot of viewers from outside of Germany. I doubt a Hollywood director working in this decade might have had the nerve to have a "Hitler wakes up in the present day" film being made, but it was even surprising that this film was acceptably made in Germany, due to the censorship laws I thought might have prevented it, and the heavy stigma surrounding World War II and Hitler in general. I watched it once on Netflix, about two months ago, but I would watch it again at some point. It was that funny!
"A New Kind of Man" (John Foxx, 1980):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt4oi-PRbN4
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phantom2-2
8 years ago
funny in a scary sort of way, since he was apparently using real hitler quotes and opinions on unsuspecting pedestrians...and getting a fair bit of agreement!
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