Je ne suis pas un americain chauviniste, typique, mais je crois que M. Miyagi est, malheureusement, un francais typique. Le deuxieme guerre mondial etait juste! Completement! I am not a chauvinistic or jingoistic (or whatever you wish to call it), American (and in fact not even a Republican) but it was a just war. Some propaganda, /malgre/ what Miyagi says, is justified. And in view of that, this film is not only appropriate (given the state of afffairs in 1942), but from an aesthetic point of view (look at the perspective angles employed!) beautiful; the sort of animation that has been forgotten. Un reponse 4 Felix Wildmay 2005-06-30 21:29:49 2005-06-30 21:29:49 Superman est un dessin animé exemplaire lorsqu'on parle d'animation inspirée de l'esthétique du film noir. Magnifique exemple de film noir adapté à l'animation 5 Liove 2005-07-12 09:42:30 2005-07-12 09:42:30 I regularly show this cartoon to my history students when we study World War II. Seeing Superman causing destruction (and implied death) is so antithetical to his usual activities helps students to understand more about the nature of propaganda, the scope of the war effort, etc. Good historical document 5 histteacher 2005-10-19 08:07:57 2005-10-19 08:07:57 No wonder we won World War II––we had Superman on our side! Clark Kent and Lois Lane are interred in Yokohama and Superman uses this opportunity to sabotage the Japs right and left. But that dumb Lois Lane still doesn't get it! A fun little piece of propaganda. Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***. Superheroes for Victory! 3 Christine Hennig 2005-11-02 19:11:01 2005-11-02 19:11:01 The MPEG2 version has something wrong with the encoding... VideoLan Client reports length as 1 minute 59 seconds. Although VLC will play all 8 minutes of this cartoom, Toast fails during multiplexing, making this piece impossible to burn to DVD for family enjoyment. Will rate it once I've seen it all ! : ) pretty durned cool, but . . . 3 Haliburton 2006-03-20 17:31:49 2006-03-20 17:35:01 While Lois Lane and Clark Kent are in Japan for some odd reason. Clark uses his free time to change into Superman and waste the Japanese fleet of ships. The Japanese don’t like this, so they take Lane hostage unless Superman stops. He doesn’t! Oh Noes! Poor Lois Lane! This is a pretty outrageous For-its-time cartoon here. The Japanese are shown to full propagandastic effect, and Superman apparently is doing nothing but sabotaging ships all day, with not a single US soldier around. Pretty wild. Hurray for American Sabotage! 4 Spuzz 2006-04-29 22:10:50 2006-04-29 22:10:50 Wow,I had no idea that Superman fought in WWII. I bet the good ole idiot in the Whitehouse would like to have Superman to help his approval ratings...lol. Funny cartoon,the sad part is that some Americans still view people of foreign countries with the same idiotic stereotyping as seen in this toon. Bush needs Superman 2 hudgeliberal 2006-06-09 05:34:37 2006-06-09 05:34:37 This movie was so sad... it's not the Superman we know and love, from any media, including the other cartoons in this series. I felt sorry for Lois, getting caught up in Evil Superman's stupid games. I know it was made during WWII, but the real Superman wouldn't stoop to this level. The real Superman hates war. Ghastly film. Superman is Evil 1 EatMyShortz 2006-06-12 16:54:45 2006-06-12 16:54:45 Superman:Truth, Justice, and the American way (kickin' Nip Ass!) Superman is a Republican! 5 orion_the_hunter 2006-07-14 21:51:24 2006-07-14 21:51:24 Lots of Monday morning quarterbacking going on in here. I think this film was completely appropriate for it's time, and to whatever extent it bolstered the morale of Americans at home and overseas, then all the better. Now if we can just get Superman to start kicking terrorist butt, we'll be in business ! Completely appropriate for its time 4 boomer54 2006-08-13 22:11:49 2006-08-13 22:11:49 Nothing surprising here for a World War II era cartoon. What were superheros supposed to do back then, sit out the war? Many of the cartoon writers and producers were glad to lend their series to helping the war effort. Both the Germans and the Japanese were well versed in using propaganda to help their war effort. With Hollywood we became experts as well. As with all propaganda on all sides of the war gross stereotypes were the order of the day. The Japanese portrayed most Americans as devils or gangsters. What is sad is people trying to remove this part of history in the name of Political Correctness. Sign Of The Times 4 rspress 2006-12-23 05:04:26 2006-12-23 05:04:26 When I was younger they used to play these cartoons on Cartoon Network. It was very fascinating to see a war propaganda version of the superman I was so fond of. We should forever preserve these wonderful gems of history, very good. Good Propaganda 4 keithg 2006-12-25 15:19:05 2006-12-25 15:19:05 This older cartoon was well done and fun to watch. However, the content may offend some as Superman is sabotaging the Japanese. The Japanese are also not portrayed favorably. This is hardly surprising for a WWII-era cartoon, and if you can overlook that, I think you will enjoy it. Superman - Eleventh Hour 4 apenny13 2006-12-29 16:51:53 2006-12-29 16:51:53 very nice cartoon superman elavent hour VISAVERSA 2007-08-02 16:26:13 2007-08-02 16:26:13 5 Now if he would beat the crap out of the pig-butt muslim terrorists... Go get 'em, Super Man! katpooh9 2009-05-17 05:49:33 2009-05-17 05:49:33 5 15 3.87