ThiefHott Too much of everything

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

TheLittleSongbird Many of the Private Snafu cartoons are very enjoyable, and while perhaps not one of the best ones 'In the Aleutians' is not an exception.Even for the Private Snafu series (where all the cartoons were very short and some feeling it), 'In the Aleutians' does feel a little short, while the story is slight and fairly tame. Snafu does make an appearance but in a non-speaking role and it's basically a very short cameo that doesn't do enough with his character that epitomises the world's most inept soldier but you can't help but love him for it.However, 'In the Aluetians' is very well-animated though with fluid character designs, detailed and not sparse backgrounds and lively colours/shadings. Carl Stalling always did write outstanding music for the many cartoons he scored for and that is true for 'In the Aleutians', the orchestration is very lush and the pacing is characteristically lively.The history is interesting and the instructional parts make their point without preaching. 'In the Aleutians' is also a humorous cartoon with razor sharp dialogue delivered with typical zany zest by the incomparable Mel Blanc.In summary, decent cartoon. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . for about a year during World War Two, so THE ALEUTIANS--ISLES OF ENCHANTMENT (OH BROTHER!)--the actual on-screen title of this animated short--is as much Family History for me as it is a Travelogue. The sneaky Japanese had killed many Americans while invading the most Western islands of this thousand-mile-long chain separating Sarah Palin's porch on the Alaskan mainland from Russia (she must have REALLY great eyes!). Though most of the Nipponese invaders had been killed or withdrawn in the face of our American Counter-Attack before Grandpops was stationed on Attu, abandoned stragglers still carried out suicidal sniper attacks from time to time during his Tour up there. ISLES OF ENCHANTMENT only spends a few seconds at the beginning alluding to the Battle for Attu. The rest of this piece deals with the Aleutians' harsh and capricious climate, including the Williwaw storms Gore Vidal used as the title and subject of his first novel. However, this brief cartoon deals with the challenges presented by one of the many WWII battle fronts in a manner that's more frank and refreshing than most of Pvt. Snafu's other outings.

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.While IMDb lists this as one of these Snafu films, this really a misnomer. First, it's more of a humorous film about the awful duty in the Aleutians. Second, Snafu only appears for a few seconds in the film. While it it funny and worth seeing, it's not all that great and it's quite short---less than three minutes long.

boblipton This is one of the best of the wartime 'Private Snafu' films made by Termite Terrace, usually written by Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss). Because they were intended only for soldiers, they were usually far more open and frank than movies intended for civilian showings and concerned themselves with humorously designed warnings about how to behave. In this case, the movie is about being stationed in the Aleutians and their strategic importance in the war. It's a fine, light curtain raiser. If you're looking at a deep-dish world War two movie -- or perhaps as a treat before seeing John Ford's masterpiece, SEX HYGIENE (both available on Youtube).