I understood why people reacted negatively to the didactic "anti-hate satire" marketing of this movie, but it also didn't make sense to me that these same people stopped thinking Taika Waititi is funny. I wondered if the marketing poisoned a movie that, if not cutting edge anti-fascist satire, at least had a few laughs.

It turns out that Waititi can still be funny when he tries (depending on your tolerance of whimsy), but Jojo Rabbit is less of a comedy…