First, a warning: Enjoy this while you can, since the Disney legal gremlins could remove it at any time.
That said, here is one of the greatest animated shorts ever made. The animation, as you'd expect from Disney, is outstanding, Jack Kinney's staging is exemplary, and Oliver Wallace's title song will be lodged in your head for the rest of the day, possibly longer.
Some questions to ponder:
1) Do you think Mel Brooks saw this?
2) Is the Japanese caricature any more offensive than, oh, Rob Schneider's buck-toothed Asian character in I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry?
3) While it's supposed to be rah-rah patriotic bullshit, how chilling is that finale? Was the fact that the shadow of the Statue Of Liberty seemed to be giving a Nazi salute considered ironic? And what about that "New World Order" line?
Ah, enough of that. Here's the cartoon:
