Absolutely hilarious satire on the Nazi party and Hitler. Too many memorable scenes ranging from simple slapstick to more subtle pokes at the fuhrer! And Charlie Chaplin the most iconic star of the silent era, delivers one of, if not the greatest speech in movie history.. It's truly amazing!

For some inexusable reason, I didn't see this movie for the first time until I was in my mid-20s. . I've since tried to atone for that negligence by watching it at every opportunity. I've always believed in the power of satire as an effective weapon in the war against injustice and evil, and The Great Dictator is a satirical masterpiece created by the original celluloid master-satirist. I've heard the same rumors that many have noted about the supposed lukewarm attitude Chaplin had about Hitler's regime, but a simple glance at the production and release dates of this film should once and finally put an end to that disinformation. This was not only a brilliantly hilarious lampooning of a vile ideology, I consider it to be the Gold Standard of cinematic satire. I can only hope that the lucky few Jewish survivors of the Nazi's inhumanity who saw this movie found it in some small way satisfying. For everyone else, I I hope it communicated effectively its (I believe) intended message that, although we'll never extinguish evil everywhere, we should ridicule it relentlessly when and wherever it's found

Undoubtedly this is not Charles Chaplin's best work. This guy is a legend but sadly his performance in this film was not nowhere near legendary.The story was not well written and lacked quality humor in it. Some of the scenes were unnecessarily long and dull. If the film's run time was one and half hour long then the film would have been more enjoyable.Charles Chaplin's performance was good but it was not his usual excellent work. I think the script failed him badly. Because the story didn't stick to the character all the time, sometimes it went off the character and did something which does not fit the character they build up.All in all it is a good movie but does not deserve this much high ratings.

What is very clear is that Charlie Chaplain is the master of silent films and slapstick humour. Unfortunately, this is not a silent film.Near the beginning there is a ~5-10 minute long 'joke' of a speech in garbled German-English words. I couldn't even make out what he is saying, the German-English jokes were not at all obvious, and so it was not funny and quite boring. If you manage to keep watching past this, you're doing well, it gets better but not by much.The small amount of classic charlie chaplain slapstick was mostly good and I laughed a few times at that, but unfortunately between the slapstick is tedious, unexciting dialogue.Maybe what Charlie Chaplain did was ground breaking at the time. Today, it fails to capture interest long enough to enjoy the comedic elements.