That rare event, a Disney failure.
The Three Caballeros (1945)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:13
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: One of Disney’s more abstract creations, The Three Caballeros is a dazzling, colorful picture that shows the company at an artistic acme.
Runtime: 73 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: On Donald Duck's birthday, his friends from South of the Border (Antarctica, Brazil, and Mexico) send gifts that bring their respective countries to life right before Donald's astonished eyes in... On Donald Duck's birthday, his friends from South of the Border (Antarctica, Brazil, and Mexico) send gifts that bring their respective countries to life right before Donald's astonished eyes in this collection of Disney cartoons from the World War II era. This colorful blend of live action and animation includes the Donald Duck cartoon "Don's Fountain of Youth" and "Pueblo Pluto." Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound Recording, Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. [More]
Starring: Clarence Nash, Joaquin Garay, Jose Olivera, Sterling Holloway
Starring: Clarence Nash, Joaquin Garay, Jose Olivera, Sterling Holloway, Frank Graham, Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz
Director: Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young
Director: Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young
Producer: Norman Ferguson, Walt Disney
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May 2, 2000
Reviews for The Three Caballeros
By far the strangest feature-length movie in the history of the Walt Disney Company, with virtually every new minute bringing something more insanely creative than the last.
The two films are as artistically astonishing as they are culturally clueless.
The menu buttons are shaped like sombreros. I trust I needn't say more.
A brilliant hodgepodge of Mr. Disney's illustrative art—a literal spinwheel of image, color and music which tumbles at you with explosive surprise.
Particularly notable is the animated train travelling through a garden of real flowers.
[After the] headlong launch into that abstract fantasia of color and sound, it's difficult to deny the sexual nature of its characters' pelvic thrusts and rampant phallic imagery. Clearly, this is Disney's horniest animated feature.
No other Disney feature achieved this level of exuberant abstraction, or displayed the same sheer pleasure in the magic of the animator's art.
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