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Summary: Classically entertaining
Review: My 73 year old mother bought this for our family because she enjoyed the Spanish themed music and dance. Apparently this was one of her favorite movies when it was first released. I have found it to be charming and educational, offering insight into Mexican and South American culture. My 9 year old found it interesting the first 2 times, but the 3 year old is addicted, watching it every day and singing all the songs. His little 3 and 4 year old buddies enjoy it too. It is definitely not the same old, and it beats the Teletubbies any day!
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Summary: Maybe I Missed Something
Review: Ok, maybe I missed something in this movie, but it wasn't that great for me. There were a couple of cute segments and I liked The Three Caballeros song. Otherwise, this was definitely not one of Disney's best. As a whole, the movie was boring and Donald's girl chasing was somewhat irritating. This movie has gotten such great reviews that I'm thinking there was something I missed and I need to watch it again. If you're watching it for the first time, don't expect too much. There wasn't much of a plot line, just badly tied together segments about Latin America. Again, not one of Disney's best.
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Summary: funny wonderful great
Review: ok you caught me one of them is very handsome i like donald cause he joined a spanish crew my favorite song is sauldos amgios cause only donald pache sing it then it gets funny i mean they teach him how to be a caberllo (donald ) then donald turns into a furicous wolf then he finds love in the caberllos and turns back into regular donald then he becomes a caberllo and becomes the greatest one ever
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Summary: The Three Caballeros, Three Cool Caballeros
Review: The Three Caballeros is one of the best movies from one of the best decades of cartooning history. Everything about the movie, from the songs to the animation to the characters and mixture of live action and cartoons, is performed extremely well. It also some of the most memorable moments in Disney history, like the scene in which Donald imitates José to grow back to his normal size (José made him small in the first place, but watch the movie to find out more about that). He tries to sing the same song as José, but it sounds more like muffled quacking (which is what the sountrack sometimes sounds like: stupid mono 40's tracks!). It's so funny you wouldn't believe it. A lot of people don't like this movie, and I feel sorry for these people. It's obvious that they just don't appreciate original, funny, cool, qulaity Disney movies. Saludos Amigos has the same problem, too....
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Summary: Three Caballeros
Review: This is the most overlooked of Disney's pure masterpieces. The sights and sounds are extremely impressive from when it was made, though certain shots make Joe and Donald look rather grainy. Some of the best songs in Disney history are within this movie: 'Baia' and, my favorite, 'Mexico'. The movie starts off rather slow, but certainly picks up with a lively beat. I like it much more than 'Saludos Amigos', which is also Joe's first appearence(Ending sequence: 'Watercolors of Brazil'). Joe has much more life in the Three Caballeros. You might expect Donald to be the best character, but both Joe Caricoa, a Brazilian green parrot, and Panchito, an eccentric gaucho rooster, are equally entertaining. Even at the times where Panchito, my favorite, explains customs and history. The movie is fairly educational and very entertaining. It is my favorite Disney movie of all time, and if more people gave it a chance it would be a lot more popular.
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Summary: I've always loved this movie
Review: Since I was young I've always enjoyed this Disney movie. The beginning is great with all the different shorts tying into Donald's birthday. Eventually though, once we get into "You Belong to My Heart" the movie loses all sense of direction(if it had any at all) and we take a psychedelic Latin journey with dancing cacti amongst other things. The DVD transfer is better than I always expect for this old animation and is sharp and enjoyable. The sound is adequate mono that was recorded in the 40's. Also includes 2 good Disney shorts as a bonus and the trailer. Don't worry about the ads in the beginning, you can skip through them.
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Summary: Disney's Overlooked Masterpiece
Review: The Three Caballeros is Disney's most overlooked masterpiece. The combination of live action and animation in the "Baia" segment of this film is definitely among Disney's best. The imaginative morphing between the dancers and the fighting cocks rivals if not surpasses any to be found in Fantasia. Best of all, it's a very pleasant film to watch or listen to and suitable for the whole family, missing the obligatory death in the first ten minutes of the film that most Disney movies have. From a technical standpoint, this is a well-done DVD. They used an extremely well-preserved print to make it from, rather than simply digitizing the VHS tape, which looks terrible on a big screen tv. They also resisted the urge to "improve" the original soundtrack, further adding to the vintage charm of this picture. All in all, I'm very happy to be able to see this movie in its original form and will be watching it again whenever I need a lift.
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Summary: Some of Disney's Best Cartoon Work
Review: True, THE THREE CABALLEROS isn't a coherent movie; rather it's a collection like FUN AND FANCY FREE and MAKE MINE MUSIC. But it's better than those two because it has a higher percentage of "hits" than they do. Let's start with one no one ever mentions -- Baia. It's just a song, but one of the most beautiful Brazilian songs, and the peaceful cartoon simply supplements the song without interfering with it. A lovely piece of restrained movie making. Then there are Donald Duck and Joe Carioca--their frenzied sequences constitute cartooning at its most clever and funny heights. Visual humor is humor to be prized, and this film has more of it than any Disney film I know. True, some of the "Sports Goofy" cartoons are just as visually funny, but they're an uneven lot, whereas CABALLEROS shows the Disney studio at the height of its funny-cartooning powers. Too bad Uncle Walt isn't around these days. The moguls who have taken over his movies reissue these classics on DVDs that force you to watch a bunch of ads for other movies before you can see the feature. As previous reviewers have commented, there's no way you can fast-forward to get rid of these annoyances. The net result, of course, is going to backfire right in Michael Eisner's face. People are going to resist buying Disney movies on DVD because of this unnecessary intrusive pre-loading of ads and other nonsense before you can see the feature. And that serves the accountants right -- because they're not creative artists, they're accountants. The only torture appropriate to them would be to lock them up in a room for a week and show them nothing but ads for Disney films until they go starkers.
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Summary: A new and improved version
Review: Unlike most of the Disney catalogue, which tends to go in and out of print fairly quickly, this has been availible on video consistently for years. The old video, which is probably still kicking around (look for the diamond Disney Classics logo) preserved the original theatrical cut. This new video version deletes about ten or twenty minutes of entirely pointless travelogue type footage that didn't add anything to the film anyways (left in all the good stuff, like the girls in bathing suits and some interesting footage of capaiero (sp.?) a Brazilian fighting dance which is now illegal). This new cut flows better and will probably be more accessible to modern audiences. This is a good pick for fans of psychedelia--rumors of Disney artists taking peyote or yaje while in South America have been circulating for years.
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Summary: A favorite from Disney, but too many ads.
Review: For many Disney may mean quality family entertainment, but after purchasing The Three Caballeros on "Disney DVD" it also means watching a string of ads. Skipping the ads is a painful process that I shouldn't have to go through. Each ad must be skipped over, there is no way to just put in the disk and start watching the film. Each time the disk is played the ads will play as well. After paying for the disk why should I have to watch ads, I just want to watch the movie. The advertising doesn't seem to lower the price of the product. In my opinion this tarnishes an otherwise good film and I hope Disney tries to be a little more consumer friendly with its future releases.
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