This Disney short is an amazing piece of animation that any movie lover can enjoy and be moved by. It features Donald Duck starring as a Nazi worker who is awakened by a band singing the cartoon's incredibly catchy theme song (along with an alarm clock, cuckoo clock, and rooster, all doing the Nazi Salute!) He starts his day by heiling pictures of Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini, which is quite shocking to hear from a Disney character. He then has a healthy breakfast of bread so stale that he has to use a saw to slice it, coffee (which is actually just one coffee bean dipped in water), and a few sprays of a perfume called Aroma de Bacon & Eggs. His meal is cut short though by a soldier shoving a copy of Hitler's best selling novel, Mein Kampf, in his face. He then is hauled off to work `48-hours-a-day for the Fuehrer' in a shell factory where he is forced to heil every picture of Hitler that follow the shells on the conveyer belt which moves so fast that it's almost impossible for him to keep up (He even stands on his head to salute a picture that was framed upside-down.) He does however get a paid vacation, `through the kindness of the Fuehrer', which consists of him exercising in front of a large picture of the Alps for thirty seconds. He then of course has to work overtime which eventually causes him to go crazy and see insane visions of shells walking on and hitting him and playing musical instruments while singing the title song super fast. After this insane sequence is over, Donald awakens in his bed wearing stars-and-stripes themed pajamas and realizes it was only a nightmare. He then proceeds to kiss is Miniature Statue of Liberty and proclaims `Oh boy! I'm glad to be a citizen of the United States of America.
I absolutely adore this cartoon and wish Disney would stop being so uptight and release it, along with their other WW2 shorts because they are really powerful and very important shorts that show us just what Americans thought back during the war. I highly recommend this and any other Disney WW2 short that you can actually get a chance to see.
10/10
I absolutely adore this cartoon and wish Disney would stop being so uptight and release it, along with their other WW2 shorts because they are really powerful and very important shorts that show us just what Americans thought back during the war. I highly recommend this and any other Disney WW2 short that you can actually get a chance to see.
10/10