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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good movie but grossly overrated

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

. . . 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!

Not one of the best of the Private Snafu series, Spies and Booby Traps are my personal favourites but it is certainly worth watching. There are funnier Snafu cartoons around, by all means it is still fun and amusing but Snafu over-explaining things gets a bit too much, and there are others also in the series that are more daring and have more energy. The animation flows very smoothly though and looks good even now, while the music is lush and lively with good use of pre-existing tunes. Going Home may not be the funniest Private Snafu cartoon around but the humour still succeeds thanks to the witty rhyming dialogue and narration and never-less-than-amusing visual gags. If you are familiar with the formula the series adopts, all revolving around Snafu's ineptness in the army, the story isn't going to hold that many surprises but it's hardly tired or dull and it handles its serious message admirably, laying it on too thick or poking too much fun at it were very easy traps to fall into and Going Home manages to avoid both of them. Snafu as ever is endearing and lots of fun to watch and the narration entertains and teaches, good chemistry between the two too. Frank Graham fills the narrator role beautifully and even better is the versatile and always consistent Mel Blanc, making Snafu a hugely entertaining character as well as a touchingly likable one. All in all, there are better cartoons in the Private Snafu series but Going Home is solid stuff still. 7/10 Bethany Cox

This is part of a series of training films featuring Private Snafu, the worst excuse for a soldier ever. There will be spoilers ahead:The Private Snafu shorts were made with the intent to train soldiers in proper behavior by showing them the worst possible behavior from a moron in uniform, one Private Snafu.In this short, Snafu returns to Podunk, a wide spot in the road, to a hero's welcome. Clearly, his home town doesn't realize what an idiot he is! He proceeds to violate all security protocols to blab everything he knows, to make himself look like an important man.Of course, there will inevitably be consequences to his inability to keep his trap shut. This being a training film designed to drive home a point, the consequences manifest themselves by the end of the short.As is typical, Snafu is clueless as to his own part in the fiasco which unfolds and he receives his just desserts. This short is available on various DVD collections of the Snafu shorts and is well worth seeing. Recommended.

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.