Where to Watch Jojo Rabbit UK — Streaming Guide & Poster

Is Jojo Rabbit on Netflix UK? Where to stream it — Scarlett Johansson · Taika Waititi · Oscar Best Adapted Screenplay · Plus buy the wall art poster from £3

🎬 Is Jojo Rabbit on Netflix UK?

Not currently. Jojo Rabbit (2019) is not available on Netflix UK as of May 2026. The film is a Fox Searchlight production — Fox Searchlight was acquired by Disney in 2019 — and its UK streaming home is Disney+, where it is included with all Disney+ subscription plans at no additional cost. If you have a Disney+ subscription (from £4.99/month), Jojo Rabbit is available to watch tonight. If you don't, you can rent it from £3.49 on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video or Rakuten TV.

🎬 Jojo Rabbit — The Anti-War Satire You Need to Watch

Jojo Rabbit (2019), written and directed by Taika Waititi and adapted from Christine Leunens's 2008 novel Caging Skies, follows Jojo Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis), a 10-year-old German boy in the final days of World War II who is a committed Nazi and whose imaginary friend is an idiotic, vain, self-contradictory version of Adolf Hitler (played by Waititi himself). Jojo discovers that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl, Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie), in their walls. The film follows the dismantling of Jojo's indoctrination through his relationship with Elsa and the collapse of everything he has been taught to believe.

The film's satirical approach — treating Hitler as a bumbling fool rather than a monster (specifically, as the idealised imaginary friend of a frightened 10-year-old boy, which is precisely what authoritarian propaganda asks children to see) — was controversial on its release. Some critics argued that it trivialised the Holocaust; others that it did precisely what satire is supposed to do: make the ideology look as stupid as it actually is rather than granting it the dignity of being taken seriously. Waititi's position, stated in interviews, was that the most dangerous response to fascism is to treat it as sophisticated. The film argues by example: Jojo's Hitler is a joke, but the consequences of the ideology around him are not.

Taika Waititi — The Most Interesting Director of His Generation

Taika Waititi (born 1975 in Wellington, New Zealand, Māori and Jewish heritage) is the most formally versatile director working in mainstream film: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, 97% RT), Thor: Ragnarok (2017, the finest MCU film), Jojo Rabbit (2019, Oscar Best Adapted Screenplay), Our Flag Means Death (HBO, 2022). Each film is in a different genre; each uses comedy as the entry point to a more serious subject. Waititi's specific gift is tonal: he can move from slapstick to genuine grief within a single scene without either register undermining the other.

Scarlett Johansson — The Finest Supporting Performance of Her Career

Scarlett Johansson's Rosie Betzler — Jojo's mother — is the finest dramatic performance of her career: a woman who is concealing a Jewish girl from the Nazi authorities, is visibly grieving for the world and the principles she has lost, and still manages to be the most warm, present and loving mother in any 2019 film. Johansson received the Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the role (she was also nominated for Best Actress for Marriage Story in the same year — a rare double nomination). The scene in which Rosie dances alone in the street, and the film's emotional climax, are both entirely Johansson's achievement.

Roman Griffin Davis — The 12-Year-Old Who Carries the Film

Roman Griffin Davis was 12 years old when he filmed Jojo Rabbit and is the primary reason the film works: a performance that requires simultaneously playing a child's naive commitment to an ideology he has absorbed without understanding, the gradual dismantling of that ideology through human connection, the specific quality of childhood grief, and the comedy of someone whose entire belief system is being replaced in real time. Davis had no professional acting experience before Jojo Rabbit. Waititi cast him after a casting process that tested over 1,000 children.

The Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay — What Waititi Won and Why

Jojo Rabbit won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 92nd Academy Awards in February 2020, competing with The Irishman, Joker, Little Women and Marriage Story. The win reflected critical recognition of the screenplay's specific achievement: adapting a serious novel about a child's Nazi indoctrination into a film that is simultaneously a coming-of-age comedy, a war film, a mother-son love story and a meditation on the specific horror of ideological childhood formation. The adaptation required replacing the novel's bleaker ending with one that allows a more qualified hope — a decision Waititi has defended as thematically consistent: the film is about a child learning to choose, and the ending shows the choice.

🎬 After You've Watched It — What Jojo Rabbit Connects To

Jojo Rabbit is in direct conversation with Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful (1997), which uses a similar strategy of using a father's comedy performance to shield his child from the reality of the Holocaust. It also connects to Waititi's broader filmography: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Disney+) is the most direct companion — another film about a misfit child who discovers the world is more complex than his ideology prepared him for. For the finest anti-war satire in cinema history: Dr. Strangelove (1964, Netflix UK) remains the definitive statement.

🎬 The Jojo Rabbit Poster UK — A Conversation Piece

At 98types Camden, the Jojo Rabbit poster is printed on 260gsm museum-grade archival matte paper with pigment inks, from £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day first class dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL. The Jojo Rabbit poster is the film poster that starts conversations: the visual identity of the film — the specific quality of Waititi's warm-but-strange aesthetic — communicates the film's tonal position before a word is spoken. Buy it with The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Truman Show = 3 prestige comedy prints + 1 free from £9.