Although it's updated to World War II and alludes to the Holocaust, this golden-hued remembrance is about as horrific as "Hogan's Heroes."

Barratier can't seem to do anything with it other than keep raising the violence and anger.

The two threads aren't really woven together into the sort of tight, overarching theme that the film seems built to convey.

This "family adventure" is exactly the type of yarn made for adults too uncomfortable with revealing the truth of a cruel world to the little beings they've brought into it.