Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

John T. Ryan THERE HAVE BEEN times in our life when it seemed that we thought that, perhaps a little too much is made of the Armed Forces and their place in the scheme of things. Needless to say that we have long since abandoned that sophomoric position for one of both sense and sanity. And, although it occurred before we were thought of, we know that no one living through World War II would share such a notion, if only for a moment.THE Disney PRODUCTION crew managed in bringing us a near perfect example of the marriage of entertainment with propaganda. Yes, we said propaganda and meant to do so; for that is one word that seems to consistently be used in a connotative manner, equaling some moral evil. In reality, the stem word, propagate, means to cultivate, increase in number or to instill understanding in others' beliefs.AS FOR THE cartoon, it moves along at an incredible rate; demonstrating how life would be under a Fascist regime. One Mr. Donald Duck is chosen to be the laboratory guinea pig and is placed in Nazi Germany. Being a blue collar guy, he has not a moment to himself.FROM MORNING TO night, he is constantly having orders barked out at him from totalitarian bureaucrats. The heavy handed 'instructions' come from person or persons who are largely unknown; save for their hands and swastika bearing shirtsleeves. No matter how hard or long he works, it's not enough.TIME OFF AND any recreation must be measured out in such a manner so as it shouldn't interfere with the War Production for the Third Reich. There is a gag that features a sort of virtual reality of a worker's 'vacation' to the Alps. A backdrop screen and sound effects add to the narration to transform the worker in an instantly staged break; then, back to work on an assembly line that he's never left.ONE PARTICULAR GAG that we really have enjoyed is Donald's work on a munitions assembly line conveyor belt. In it, DD is required to tighten up all shells' attachments to warhead (bullet or slug) in an ever increasing rate. The situation is remarkably similar to Charlie Chaplin's lot in life in his MODERN TIMES (1936) and may very well have been inspired by or lifted as a sort of homage from "the Little Tramp's" performance in that classic film.THE CARTOON SPORTS a fine, deeply satirical song that serves as the very core of the story. Originally being performed by a sort of "All Star" Oom-Pah-Pah Band, made up of caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito; representing the Axis Powers of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. The song "Der Fuehrer's Face" was later recorded by Spike Jones and his City Slickers and was a big hit single for them.AT PICTURE'S END, all is once again well for Donald Duck. How? Well, we're not going to tell you. Watch the cartoon!

marcus_stokes2000 *The SPOILERS' Face* The short begins with a Nazi band - with Hirohito, Mussolini (who wittily states 'We would leave if we could'), an enormous Nazi, a very tall and lanky Nazi and a very effeminate Nazi singing the title song, which basically makes fun of Hitler.Cut to Donald Duck, who lives in a minuscule house in this 'Nutziland' where EVERYTHING either is Swastika-shaped or refers to Hitler (including clouds and picket fences). Also his house is decorated in the 'Hitler style' (the Hitler-cuckoo is a hoot!).After having gotten dressed in paper clothes and hat, Donald manages to eat a slice of bread so hard it requires a saw to cut, drink coffee made from one single bean and spray 'Aroma of Bacon and Eggs' down his throat, before the Nazi band makes him read the Mein Kampf - to 'improve his mind' - before coming to get him to work.Donald is a 'willing worker of Nutziland' who has to work 48 hours a day for the Fuehrer making shells, and having to salute Hitler's image at the same time.He gets a 'vacation mit pay' working out obsessively in front of an image of the Alps. The poor guy gets bombarded with Nazi propaganda, and ends up being 'chosen' by special degree of the Fuehrer to work overtime.Eventually, he goes insane and hallucinates various things, among whom switching places with the shells, the Nazi orchestra made of shells, and even himself as Hitler, being saluted by a shell, as the song 'The Fuehrer's Face' keeps on being played faster and faster, until...Donald wakes up from the Nazi nightmare and realizes he is safe in America.Awesome, awesome short where Disney openly makes fun of Hitler's insanity. An Academy Award-winner classic not to miss! The Fuehrer's Face: 9/10.

ihatestairwaytoheaven Leonard Maltin was right when he said, (in his new introduction on the DVD set) that this cartoon is "very funny". It tells the story of Donald Duck, who has a nightmare he's living in a place overrun with "nutzis", (supposed to represent the nazi party). He eats wooden bread, slaves away in Hitler's ammunition factory, a is rudely awakened by the film's catchy title number.Disney withheld the cartoon for many years because of it's subject matter, it's just another instance of people trying to erase history. I'm glad Disney finally had the balls to release this. It's hilarious. Even more so after the war is over, and history tells us what buffoons Mussolini and Hitler really were.Anyway, to cut this short. This film is classic. One of the best I have ever seen, not only from Disney, but ever.10/10

TheOtherFool This is such a great propaganda piece! Donald Duck is a worker (well, slave really) in Nutzi land, which basically is nazi Germany. There's a fantastic piece when Donald is working in a factory in a way that reminds us of Chaplin in Modern Times. Throughout the film a really catchy song is playing that is making fun of Hitler.In the end it turns to be all a dream and Donald is waking up in the USA. He turns patriotic while stating he's so glad to be a citizen in the United States. Oh well, it's propaganda, people!Propaganda so well made, it should be hailed (no pun intended) for it, as the movie makes fun of Hitler and his gang in an effective, but also hilarious way. 8/10!