Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . GOING HOME informs us. The American Military extorted taxpayer funding to churn out the mind-control doggerel verses featured in GOING HOME to drum the idea into the brains of privates than only generals could bask in the glow of War Stories. These armchair quarterbacks, such as "I Like Ike" Eisenhower, exploited GOING HOME Dictums for hushing up the Real Heroes of the Front Lines, so that they themselves could hog all the Glory and move into the White House. The grunts who survived World War Two were so thoroughly shushed by their own tax dollar-funded Thought Control of the GOING HOME variety that the phrase "He never talks about the War" became a Cliché. This not only was a misuse then of taxpayer funds, but it also Doomed America to half a million MORE War Dead and an inflation-adjusted $100 trillion in unneeded "Defense" spending during the following century. That's because when all of information doled out to the Civilian Public about the LAST war comes from the mouths of the Blood Money-Gorged Military\Industrial Complex, rather than the survivors of Front-Line Hell, the cards will always be stacked in favor of more and more War, whatever the cost!

Michael_Elliott Going Home (1944) *** (out of 4) This War Department short warns soldiers of the dangers of going home and running their mouths. Private Snafu gets to go home where he begins talking to anyone who will listen to him. He talks about certainly classified material and before you know it several American soldiers are dead. GOING HOME is one of the better entries in the series as it's highly entertaining on a number of levels including the fact that there's some adult material here. Just check out the dame in the theater who Snafu runs his mouth to. The sexual innuendo with her rather large boobs was obviously something that general audiences at the time wouldn't have been able to see. Once again the animation is extremely good and especially one scene where we see Japan get leveled. Fans of the series are certainly going to enjoy the humor as well as the dark ending.

MartinHafer The Private Snafu films were clearly made to be seen by soldiers and not by the general public. The dirty jokes, sexual innuendos and language is relatively tame today but never would have been allowed in the regular theaters due to the Production Code. But, such off-color remarks went over very well with the enlisted men and helped to illustrate important information in a humorous and memorable fashion.According to IMDb, this short was never released to the servicemen because apparently a section talking about some "super-bomb" was considered to be too close to the secret atomic bomb that the country was working on at the time. However, today you can see and enjoy it.Snafu comes home for a visit and as usual, he's a total idiot--and very reminiscent of his other film, SPIES. He talks and talks and accidentally gives out vital information concerning his unit...and naturally the enemy is able to use this against us. Clever, yes, but also not quite as crazy and funny as the usual Snafu film.

emasterslake Private Snafu returns home with a large coming party.Snafu tells his family, girlfriend, and friends what he did.Course the stuff he reveals is confidential and not suppose to revealed to the public.But like always Snafu announces all the Army's secrets and plans including the bomb.It's another memorable Snafu toon.This Private Snafu cartoon wasn't shown to the U.S. army because it'll spread fear about the development of the bomb.but it did get released on the DVD set, course I had to download it in order to see it.