#72: To Be Or Not To Be

To Be Or Not To Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

This is the first movie that I really don't understand how it got in the top 100. The other ones I haven't liked, I at least get it. Maybe it's one of those ones that got in because it was controversial when it came out, and us modern progressive types have to prove how open minded we are. It's just a really stupid movie. It's a 'farse' comedy, except about Nazis. This troop of actors is in with the Polish resistance and pretend, successfully, to be Nazi officers, Nazi collaberators and Hitler. And it works. None of it is very well written or funny. It does sport a style of dark irony that's more modern than other comedies at the time. But that doesn't change that it's a comedy, that's not funny.

Rating: ** 1/2 / 5

29/100