The Great Dictator

Genre: Comedy
Year: 1940
Director: Charles Chaplin

"Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future! The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up!"

To tell the truth i though this movie would not be funny, this is the first Chaplin movie I have watched, I though it was going to be a silly, outdated movie that i would at most give a ha to. How i was wrong. Although some of the jokes are slightly silly and maybe even childish, I still got sore from laughing especially the Jewish barbers character.

This movies tells the story of a Jewish barber and his story through the army and the ghetto, as well as a dictator resembling/taking the piss out of Hitler called Adenoid Hynkel. It had me laughing out loud almost the whole way. Some of the jokes I found unfunny for instance falling over isn't as funny as it was in the 40s i assume but apart from only a very few scenes this movie is a hilarious classic.

The Jewish Barber was incredibly hilarious through his personality and in some very funny parts his amnesia which he requires. His brave, simple minded character I very much liked his character. I enjoyed watching him do his walk and although he was not stupid at some times he did not seem incredibly bright.

Hynkel was not quite so good however still managed to be quite funny at times. His character is the complete oposite to the barber he is is loud and dumb and this was intended as you will see why by the end. Hynkel is a definate reference to hitler and wants to take over the world.

This movie takes the piss quite badly out of the german language, so if you are german might want a warning in the long run however your German language is really quite angry and many of the words do sound like "fluten" so sooner or later some one was bound to take the piss.

The acting was alright mainly lead by chaplin obviously but nothing to amazing as in my opinon good acting is for the more serious movies, so this movie did not need the acting to be done by Robert De'niro or Al Pacino.

In conclusion a great movie well worth the praise the critics give it. It has great jokes and I like the story aswell. My personal 2cnd favorite comedy 1st Dr Strangelove. Chaplin your the man!

9/10