One of the only movies that's almost fifty years older than I am that I actually love

i'm only 20 years old and i just saw this for the first time. Some scenes had me dying from laughter and others had me depressed. Great movie

I've never seen this movie, but this scene right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZ8sHsKkkQ is EPIC!
It moves me EVERY TIME.

It's something we should all think about!

One of those classics that I just had to see. Really interesting to watch from a film-historical point of view.

Great. Classic.

This was my third Chaplin movie and I must say that the fact that this is not silent is a big plus for me. So much more watchable! It has a few iconic scenes (the balloon globe scene is my favorite, I think) that make you chuckle. Also, this is such an interesting watch if you put the time that this was released and the years that followed into perspective. Chaplin himself said that, if he knew the gruesome shit the nazis were up to during WII, he wouldn't have been able to make this. With the knowledge of today, it's almost unthinkable that Hitler was someone that you make fun of in this way. Still, I'm glad that Chaplin did it and that we will always have this historic and unique movie.

Chaplin's criticism of Hitler's dictatorship.

Like a nation's flag, what _The Great Dictator_ is made of is less important that what it represents.

The film is overlong and many of the gags fail to entertain (two notable exceptions for me were, of course, the globe balloon but also the impeccable timing in the single-shot Brahms-barber shop scene) yet what makes the film powerful are not the threads and fabric that went into making it, but the struggle, the heroism and the humanity it stands for.

Chaplin made _The Great Dictator_ in 1940, openly mocking a world leader whom many countries had not yet decided to denounce. For this reason it remains not just a shining example of political satire, but also an example contemporary directors would be wise to follow. What a world it would be if, instead of waiting for the tide to turn, a filmmaker today had the courage to make the same sort of movie, satirizing a current head of state.

That speech at the end is great.

Paco: Cinema: image and sound 4/5. All the good they say about her is true

You broke my heart, Chaplin. This is one of the most disappointing movies I've seen.

Far better than I expected it to be, and I’ve loved the Chaplin movies I’ve seen in the past. Chaplin transitions to sound here with resounding success–and indeed, the funniest parts of the movie here for me were his faux-Germanic speeches and his mimicry of Hitler’s speaking style. Truly laugh out loud funny. A lot of the humor here, though, would have worked in any of the old silents: the barbershop shave, the stools, the dud missle, etc. It was lovely to see these gags updated for the sound era and they were just as crackerjack as any of the old stuff.

What surprised me most about the movie was its pathos, most notably of course in the final scene. While some of the movie was tough to watch (the movie doesn’t seem to quite understand the extent of the horrors that it’s referencing), its heart was in the right place and the final speech was genuinely affecting.