Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . to its alleged target audience of new recruits when it first came out in 1943. As anyone who has seen THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, A BRIDGE TOO FAR, or THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY well knows, there were no Featherbedders among the American heroes who won World War Two. Hell had no FURY worse than that for the grunt too lazy to mop his predecessor's face of his tank's interior. Most of the brave souls fighting for U.S. Freedom in WWII had had little if any exposure to television, so how could they be blamed for not imagining a day when a TV game show host would gain access to nuclear bomb codes capable of blowing up Planet Earth into a new Asteroid Belt? Even if they paid rapt attention to this boring and patronizing animated short, they'd be incapable of guessing that they were fighting and dying so that History's King of Goldbrickers could claim a few decades later that he was their beloved Gen. Patton reincarnated, despite the fact that he'd weaseled out of his own Vietnam Duty quicker than "this" through a goose! Just as Pvt. Snafu's corrupting Goldbrick idol turns out to be hanged Japanese War Criminal Tojo himself, President-Elect Trump's Alter Ego has been exposed this summer as that notorious Russian, Vladimir "Mad Dog" Putin. The G.I.s of the 1940s thought Germans were pretty dumb for electing Adolph Hitler as their President in the 1930s. Millions of people--including millions of Germans--died, due to that colossal goof. Many more soon will perish because of our even dumber American voters.

utgard14 Very funny entry in the Private Snafu cartoon series made for the U.S. army during WW2. This one is about laziness and shirking your duties, which could certainly be a dangerous thing for a soldier to do during wartime. Lazy Snafu is encouraged by "Goldie the Goldbrick" to skip drill by pretending to be sick. Goldie is an amusing "fairy" that has to be seen to be believed. He sings a great song that would no doubt turn the most responsible among us into slackers. The short's directed by Frank Tashlin with voicework from the great Mel Blanc. The black & white animation is nice. Look at Snafu's nurse -- insert cartoon whistles here! The short ends with a twist that will be offensive to some today but it's important to keep these things in the proper historical context.

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.In this cartoon, instead of Technical Fairy First Class, you see a new but fatter character. And, instead of teaching him a good lesson, this fairy encourages Snafu to take the easy way out again and again. By the end of the film, Snafu is in deep trouble and you discover the truth about this new fairy.Overall, a rather sub-par Snafu cartoon, though for fans of the series, it's still worth seeing. The biggest problem with it is that it's just less funny than the typical film and seemed a bit preachy.

phantom_tollbooth Frank Tashlin's 'The Goldbrick' is a great Private Snafu cartoon designed to discourage "goldbricking" (slacking off) in soldiers. One of a handful of shorts in which Snafu actually dies at the end, 'The Goldbrick' has at its core an infectiously lazy song which is so laid-back that it's virtually a poem but is impossible to get out of your head afterwards. Convinced by Goldie the Goldbrick fairy that he should fake an illness to get out of duty, Snafu slowly begins to learn all the tricks of goldbricking until he is singing along with the film's theme tune. These scenes are cleverly set-up with a couple of nice laughs but 'The Goldbrick' really makes its mark with the grim turn it takes at the end. The final scenes are genuinely troubling (and not just for the racist caricature) and the message is delivered forcefully without having to make any sacrifices in terms of entertainment. There are many Private Snafu shorts which more than justify the redistribution of the series and 'The Goldbrick' is amongst the very best.