This is not only a bad film. It is irresponsible because it doesn't even bother to check facts. How could any movie maker mix up the year of the Munich agreement or have SA brown shirts beating people up in 1939 when they and their leader Erich Roehm were liquidated in 1934. Yet several of the comments from teens here on IMDb suggest that they accept it as factual history. I wasn't surprised to see that Disney and Buena Vista, an organization with little concern for accuracy, was involved. Then there was the language and the antics of the teenagers. Everybody speaks with a German accent except the principals who are cool cats right out of Cincinatti. They didn't say "Hey man" in 1939 even in the United States. Even the wildest German teenager in 1939 would not have worn long hair, had the zoot suit clothing or acted with the sort of abandon that was portrayed. I don't know if there really were devotees of swing music in Nazi Germany. There probably were. But they certainly were neither as numerous, as above board nor as thoroughly "Americanized" as those portrayed in the movie. It's an absurd and badly done motion picture that in trying to be profound succeeds only in achieving banality.