Watchin' Disney #07: The Three Caballeros

Lord that post about Saludos Amigos stinks. The thing is is that Saludos Amigos is just a collection of shorts about Latin America, and there isn't a whole lot to write about something like that. The movie of today, The Three Caballeros, is also a collection of shorts about Latin America, so just go ahead and skip this post; it will suck.

Previous relationship with movie: Owned it on VHS as a kid, have had "THE THREE CABALLEROS, THEY SAY WE ARE BIRDS OF A FEATHAAAHHHH" running through my head for about 16 years.

So I watched it: This movie is pretty great. Our old pal Donald Duck is the star, the movie starts out with Donald Duck receiving a package from his Latin American friends. The package is some films that are, much like the content of Saludos Amigos, a bunch of short cartoons that have to do with Latin America. Soon enough, Donald's pal and my new favorite Disney Character Joe Carioca comes and sings songs and does dances with Donald and eventually their other friend Panchito comes and, again, more singing and dancing. The whole like last half of the movie is basically just many different scenes of Donald dancing with live action Latinas.

Oh, also there's a really cool rude bird called the Aracuan, he might be my favorite character instead of Joe Carioca actually (trust me he's great).

Anyway, despite my snark, this movie rules.

Best part of the movie: New feature of Watchin' Disney! The best part of this movie is when Donald Duck throws his sombrero in the air and it turns into a sailor hat and falls on his head.

Up next: Make Mine Music, how bout that.

Watchin' Disney #06: Saludos Amigos

It's been too long since the last time I've watched Disney, but I haven't forgotten about this blog feature (making me the only one alive who hasn't forgotten about my own blog's blog feature). The reason for the delay: I'm up to Saludos Amigos, which proved kind of hard to find a library that had it on DVD to rent. I ended up getting it on loan from a library from Martin Luther King Dallas Library (who knew Texas had a Martin Luther King Library? I kinda expected a Chuck Norris Library or Alamo Library or something). Anyways, I got the DVD, I watched it, and now I'ma blog about it.

Previous relationship with movie: Never even heard of it! I didn't even know it was a movie (it kind of isn't, it's 42 minutes long).

So I watched it: I like it! It's pretty much one of those movies where Walt tries to teach you stuff; in this instance, he tries to teach you about Latin America. It's basically four shorts put together with some footage of the Disney animators going to Mexico and learning about the culture and drawing cartoons of it, and then you watch the cartoons they draw! Cool!

The shorts are all pretty good. The first three are a Donald Duck cartoon, a cartoon about an anthropomorphic plane with a mom plane and a dad plane, and a Goofy cartoon. They're all pretty basic Disney cartoons, except they happen to take place in Mexico. The last cartoon is Donald Duck meeting rude parrot Jose Carioca, in a watercolor painting of Brazil. I don't have much to say about them really. They're just cool cartoons, I recommend this movie.

Man this is a terrible blog post. The thing is I'm rushing it because this DVD is due soon and I'm gonna rack up mad fines if it's late seeing as how it needs to be shipped back to Dallas.

Up next: The Three Caballeros; more Jose Carioca, I can't wait.

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