The Three Caballeros

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Summary: Disney's learning to make better DVDs
Review: I was pleasantly surprised that they included a couple short animated features with this DVD and that they also cleaned them up digitally. The picture quality was amazingly good for something made in the 1940s.

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Summary: Even Disney can make a dud
Review: There was lot of Disney hype surrounding this film when it came out in 1945 and although I vividly remember pestering my mother to see it and buy the book , I didn't remember the film content at all. We're now in the stage of buying films for our grand-children and this seemed like a natural. Seeing it now, I can understand why I didn't remember it. Even Disney can make a dud. The dancers are wooden and stiff, totally lacking grace. The vocalists are terrible. The expressions on both display boredom. Donald's skirt chasing is tedious and overdone. The "beauties" on the beach are chubby, frumpy and stiff (I may be at fault for applying 2000 standards to 1945 film). Some features are just dated and now inappropriate, such as Joe Carioca's stogie and Panchito's blazing six-guns. However, trying to put it in the perspective of life, values and humor in a simpler time just doesn't work-it is a bad movie, then and now. Although some segments are cute, they are not tied together and overall it lacks continuity. The only positive features are the vivid colors in the animations and the abstractions are well done also. Its hard to believe that there is enough demand for this film to keep it in print.

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Summary: For animation fans, a classic...
Review: As cohesive films go, this isn't at the top of the list. As the Amazon reviewer commented, Donald doesn't do much more in this movie but run around after Latin beauties. But Disney cut the animators loose otherwise, and the result is eye-poppingly energetic. Mary Blair, Ward Kimball, and the rest created one of the first visually anarchic animated movies, breaking every rule. For animation fans, the title song and "You Belong To My Heart" are not to be missed.

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Summary: The last great Disney feature film
Review: Starts out somewhat slowly with three good, but unremarkable, shorts. Then Joe Carioca shows up, and the Disney artists cut it loose. Aside from a couple of short, cheaply made exceptions, 'Baia' and 'Christmas in Mexico', the rest of this film is staggeringly inventive. Anyone who loves the 'Pink Elephants on Parade' sequence from Dumbo, needs to jump on this.

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Summary: The Three Caballeros
Review: A wonderful movie - we especially fancied the beginning about the Penguin, and the song "Baia"- and now we can't wait for our 15 month old daughter to grow up loving this movie. We are glad that we bought this from Amazon.com.

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Summary: A childhood classic
Review: I used to watch this movie repeatedly when I was young at my grandparent's house. It is one of the next movies that I am going to buy to add to my Disney collection... I really liked it, especially that little bird, and I remember dancing and singing to the song "Three Caballeros." The only part I didn't like was the end, but that may just be a childhood thing.

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Summary: not one of the better Disney animated features
Review: sexist, stereotypical nonsense involving three cartoon birds has some interesting animation but not much to raise it above the boring levels it maintains for most of the film.

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Summary: Spanish teacher's friend
Review: Any elementary Spanish teacher who has ever had to teach children shortly before a vacation begins will love this video. Lesson plans can be structured to use this video to teach geography, social studies, music, and some Spanish vocabulary, and it will keep the kids attention on a difficult day, as no serious travelogue will do! Kids love it, and can learn from it.

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Summary: A Very Strange Movie
Review: This movie plays out like some sort of acid trip. The animation is not up to par with some of Disney's earlier movies but it is still worth checking out. Lots of beautiful Latin women too.

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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.