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Summary: "The Three Caballeros" Gold Collection DVD
Review: A lot better than Walt Disney's previous attempt, "Saludos Amigos", "The Three Caballeros" is another film that focuses on Central and Southern America. It's Donald Duck's birthday, and his friends from Mexico (Joe Carioca & Panchito) send him gifts from their country. A long the way various clips from the foreign countries are show in a documentary style & animated shorts telling stories are intertwined. The best one is "The Cold Blooded Penguin", where a small penguin wants to live life in the sun. This film also landmarked, the first time live action was mixed in with animation in the same scene. The funniest of these segments is when Donald starts chasing the girls on Acapulco beach BUT the best use of this new technology was in the "Donald Loses His Heart To The Cookie Lady" scene, where the boys dance around and with live action dancers. The film is well paced, has great segments, the music depends on your tastes. But overall, this movie definatley surpasses "Saludos Amigos", in all ways possible.
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Summary: Un tributo a la musica y la cultura latina
Review: This is one of Disney's tributes to Latin music and culture (of course, as seen from a distorted gringo lens). My only disappointment was that I bought it in Australia, zone 4, and the only sound tracks available are English, French, Dutch, and Italian. The songs include: Baia, Os Quindins de Yaya, Las Posadas, Lilongo, Solamente una Vez, and Jesusita.
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Summary: when i was a kid...
Review: I found that a lot of the reviews here say that this movie isn't for children. But as a child I LOVED this movie. I don't know why, but I remember watching this movie at least 5 times a week. And I wasn't an odd child at all, since I loved all the other Disney classics, such as Cindarella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, etc. But for some reason this one Disney movie was especially appealing to me.
But hey, I was a kid that this movie held the attention span of. And I was probably around 3 or 4 when this was my favorite movie.
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Summary: Disney with a Spanish Flair!
Review: Donald Duck cruising through Latin American swooning over pretty ladies with lots of dancing and birds. This is a confusing video and really not appropriate for children.
This is a full-feature Disney movie in Technicolor running for what seemed an eternity of 71 minutes. While it is rated G for general audiences I fail to see what a child would get out of The Three Caballeros.
The one nice feature in their favor is the absence of previews on the video. The star of this feature is Donald Duck. He receives a package with a note written in Spanish, which translates to Happy Birthday from your friends in Latin America.
One box has a projector in it that then has one person talking to Donald while another voice is the Narrator of a story about a penguin. This voice is the same that does Winnie the Pooh (Sterling Holloway) here called Professor Holloway!
Pablo the Penguin wants to live on a tropical island and tries many ways to leave and makes a boat that takes him to his Island.
Then there are short clips on this projector with a bird that carries bagpipes under its beard, scissors birds known as the Columbian cutter. A strange story about a flying donkey bird that acted like he was loco! Off to Fiesta Y Carrera to gamble pesos away with ladies and men dancing in the plaza.
Here the Narrator is actually the small person riding the flying donkey and they enter a race against other donkeys. This strange story than comes to an end with the book closing and another birthday box for Donald to open. Out of the box comes a Jimmy Cricket type bird that shrinks himself and Donald so they can go back into the book via train to visit Brazil.
Ladies hips are swaying and the men are donning their sombreros dancing all over the streets of these countries. Jose is busy trying to keep Donald out of the way of the activities taking place.
You might be thinking at this point and what is the purpose of this? I could not answer that as this is the theme of the whole movie! If you are one of the few unfortunate ones to actually have this video, it might be best to don a hat and do the cha cha with your kids and hope the music stops soon!
Soon the book closes and Jose and Donald are back to the place they were before, who knows actually but presume it would be Donald's house. The problem is that they are still small and need to get back to their original sizes. These scenes are silly and point less as the magic shows them in and out of clothing with lots of changes that again make no sense.
The color in the live action scenes in the background is of poor quality with the acting fake looking. The Three Caballeros does a poor job in combining Latin America themes with the Disney name. There has never been anything quite like this and Disney must of learned from this mishap.
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Summary: should have showed the charaters more
Review: After the success of such Storybook tales like Snow White, Pinocchio, and Bambi, the studio took a different turn and presented about nine films that were more like many Fantasias than epic fairytales. This is one of the best and it truely is a standout among the Disney films. Donald Duck hosts the show, and he meets along the way Hose' and Panchito. The film is musical and colorful. It may not be one of the greats but definately good.
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