Tasteless plastic toy comedy offers an antidote to the grim tone struck by other paranoid alternate histories
I salute the makers of Jackboots On Whitehall for finding a fresh approach to the surprisingly rich genre of movies that ask that big and troubling question: Dude, What If Hitler Had Won? (or Invaded?) In their account, which marries the action-puppet idiocy of Team America: World Police to the demented historical revisionism of Inglourious Basterds, Hitler will invade, Panzers will thunder along the Strand, and Churchill himself will be seen brandishing a machine gun on the steps of No 10, ventilating wave upon wave of the Krautonic hordes.
It's about time someone took the piss out of all this again, because most of the work in this field has had a very grim tone over the years. And it's been years. I thought that downbeat fictional speculations on a Nazified Britain or America...
I salute the makers of Jackboots On Whitehall for finding a fresh approach to the surprisingly rich genre of movies that ask that big and troubling question: Dude, What If Hitler Had Won? (or Invaded?) In their account, which marries the action-puppet idiocy of Team America: World Police to the demented historical revisionism of Inglourious Basterds, Hitler will invade, Panzers will thunder along the Strand, and Churchill himself will be seen brandishing a machine gun on the steps of No 10, ventilating wave upon wave of the Krautonic hordes.
It's about time someone took the piss out of all this again, because most of the work in this field has had a very grim tone over the years. And it's been years. I thought that downbeat fictional speculations on a Nazified Britain or America...
- 10/1/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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