Chuck Jones's 'Spies' is one of the best Private Snafu cartoons made for the military. Used to instruct soldiers against certain behaviour by using Snafu to epitomise it, the Snafu cartoons were known for their bawdier nature inserted to keep the soldiers' attention. So 'Spies' features some prominent breast-based recording equipment, then-risqué use of the word "Hell" and a great horse's ass joke. Directed with great flair by Jones, 'Spies' main trump card is a cracking, witty script entirely in rhyme written by none other than the great Dr. Suess. Suess and Jones were a match made in heaven, as the classic 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' would later attest, and this early collaboration between the two is a worthy forerunner. Though it only lasts about three minutes in total, 'Spies' packs in plenty of laughs and sneaks its message in amongst them so that the audience doesn't feel it has been crammed down their throats at the end.

The flow of the story and gags work perfectly in this one.All has to do with Snafu trying not to reveal a secret to the spies that are following him.This was made back when Germany and Japan was the enemy of America. So allot of the spies are mostly German, Japanese or just some sneaky looking fellas.what also cool is it's the only Snafu cartoon with a cartoon version of Hitler himself.Please note that this film is banned along with other Snafu shorts due to it having racist stuff on the Japanese.So I won't recommend showing this to anyone who is Japanese or German to prevent any offending.besides that it is a great WW2 short.

For several of the shorts in this series, Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) scripted and the speech patterns here reflect his quite familiar cadence. It's great! Private Snafu really screws up royally here, which was the point, as the series was meant to show soldiers what not to do and what the consequences could be. These are not balanced and fair cartoons-there was a war on at the time and Germany and Japan were the ENEMY, so the caricatures are not nice. If you are easily offended, you likely won't like these. The series is great and well worth watching. Recommended.

THERE ARE PROBABLY "SPOILERS" IN HERE. If you don't wish to learn more than you so desire about this film, please DON'T READ THIS REVIEW! A brilliant Private Snafu cartoon in which the lovably thick-minded anti-hero gets a Situation Normal All F***ed Up. And boy does he f*** up in this one, making friends with a pretty (indeed, very pretty) blonde who turns out to be sending messages to Der Fuhrer's radio personel via two floral microphones concealed in the young madchen's hefty bosom. The delightful riming dialogue and inventive sight gags are among the movie's highlights, which also include talking moose heads, "chain and paddellock" diagrams of the private's rather small brain, a news-stand salesman reading a magazine with "SEX" on the cover, a group of u-boats rising in swastika formation, and a whole barrage of disgustingly racist stereotypes add to the zaniness. The final climactic moments, in which Snafu is (WARNING, ANOTHER SPOILER AHEAD) literally blown to Hell and taunted by the demonized Hitler while seated in a near-boiling cauldron, is totally priceless, the stuff great movie moments are made of.