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My husband loves the moving finale of “The Three Caballeros” so mighty he says nothing else here matters, and rates this, ahem, current Disney collection 5 stars. I, on the other hand, rate it 3. Clear, the surreal stuff is creative, but the live-action material is so lame! And besides, I want a account! The 4 stars above are our compromise. (Our teenage daughter, by the design, sides more with her father.)

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So here’s my review, a mix of all of our opinions.

SALUDOS AMIGOS

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“Saludos Amigos” is a 42-minute South American travelogue. Produced in 1942 with dinky wartime resources, it uses live-action scenes to link together four cartoons.

The live-action segments prove Walt Disney and a team of Disney artists as they move to the continent and then glean information and sketch cartoon ideas. Poorly calm, badly mature and politically out of date, the footage has the peek of an ancient home movie, as well as an obviously overdubbed soundtrack. My husband, however, geezer-in-training that he is, likes these scenes for their historical value, as they are filled with propeller-driven airliners, 1930s automobiles and lots of women in great, flowing dresses.

As for the cartoons, my whole family agrees that they are some of Disney’s best.

“Lake Titicaca” stars Donald Duck as a tourist, getting into inconvenience as he attempts to cruise a boat, catch photos, communicate with the locals and wander a llama across a suspension bridge.

“Pedro” tells the memoir of a cute “dinky boy plane” who dreams of carrying the mail between Chile and Argentina. A compelling memoir rotund of fun and drama, it holds up amazingly well, and looks like it could have been drawn yesterday.

The hilarious “El Gaucho Goofy,” is in the same vein as the 1950s Goofy “How-To” cartoons. As the narrator blindly describes how Goofy “deftly tosses” a lasso around a horse, “speedily converts” his saddle into a bed and “gracefully” dines on barbecue, the dippy dog botches every step. (If you purchase this DVD, glance for these scene transitions. The lasso segment literally gets pushed off camouflage by the saddle scene, which itself ends by rolling up like a window shade. When the barbecue segment wipes off at an angle, Goofy nearly falls out of it!)

Finally, mighty like a tropical version of “Fantasia,” the terrific “Aquarela do Brasil” (”Watercolor of Brazil”) starts off as a painting of a vibrant rainforest that comes to life to music, in this case a huge version of the samba standard “Tico Tico No Fubá.” Soon Donald appears, meets Brazilian playboy parrot José Carioca (a Disney version of a Brazilian folk character), and the duo shake their bonbons off into the nightlife of Rio. Considerable of Jose’s dialogue is in Portuguese.

THE THREE CABALLEROS

The most bizarre movie the Walt Disney company has ever produced, 1945’s “The Three Caballeros” is a collection of engrossing shorts, all tied together by a bare-bones area of Donald Duck learning about Latin America. The cartoons progress from typically sweet Disney family fare to a truly psychedelic, adult-oriented swingin’-single travelogue that turns Donald into a libidinous wolf.

It begins as Donald Duck, sitting alone in a room, receives a spacious box filled with birthday presents “from his friends in Latin America.” First up are a few cartoons about some current animals of South America — “The Cool Blooded Penguin,” “A Visit With More Rare Birds” (rainforest birds) and “The Tale of The Flying Gauchito” (a flying donkey) . These three shorts capture up the first 22 minutes of the film.

Next out of the box are two pop-up books about Brazil and Mexico. Each of these comes to life as its maintain peyote-paced attractive featurette.

First, the cigar-chomping José Carioca pops out of the Brazil book and takes Donald on a 19-minute run to the town of Baia (today’s Salvador) . As a catchy rhythm builds, Carioca creates his hold harmony by dividing into four identical versions of himself, male, then female.

Eventually the birds meet the Cookie Lady (a live-action singer who attracts men with her baked goods) and soon the whole thing turns into what perhaps can best be described as a samba-fueled cookie version of the Marilyn Monroe production number, “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend.”

Donald gets jealous and pursues the Cookie Lady through the village — which is, all along, a live-action stage situation meant to be a grand pop-up-book page. For the finale, the Cookie Lady turns blue, two of her live-action suitors turn into fighting gamecocks and soon everyone and everything — including the buildings, the moon, the waves in the sea — dances into the night.

The book about Mexico brings forth Panchito, a six-gun-shooting cowboy rooster. He tosses sombreros to his unusual feathered friends, proclaims the trio “three overjoyed caballeros” and takes Donald and José on a 30-minute flying-serape tour of his country.

On Acapulco Beach, Donald goes ga-ga for dozens of live-action bathing beauties (”Arrive to Papa! Arrive here, my shrimp enchilada!”) and keeps losing his swimming suit. At night the duck can’t quit away from the clubs, where he dances with mild more real-life señoritas.

The movie’s bizarre animation includes illogical color changes and an overdose of morphing gags. Donald himself assumes over a hundred shapes and color patterns, and once becomes a woman. Some scenes, however, are handsome Mary Blair gems that would later inspire the films “Cinderella” and “Alice in Wonderland,” as well as the classic Disney attraction It’s a Puny World.

Sound vast? My husband obvious thinks so, and though I care for the Mary Blair art, all the surreal animation and dated live-action blending don’t exactly float my boat, and, well, I like my movies with a legend! Quiet, some people have always found “The Three Caballeros” irresistibly sharp, and it is certainly a must for any animation fan, as it shows the Disney animation team at its free-for-all zenith.

The two movies were produced as fraction of the U.S. government’s Pleasant Neighbor Policy, an inconvenience to promote pro-American feelings (and combat Nazi sympathies) in Latin America during World War II.

BONUS FEATURES

Extras on the DVD include two qualified Donald Duck cartoons. In 1937’s “Don Donald” (also on The Chronological Donald Vol. 1), a flirtatious Daisy Duck (here named “Donna”) gets trapped in the rumble seat of Donald’s car as it bounces through the Mexican desert. In 1944’s “Contrary Condor” (also on The Chronological Donald Vol. 2), Donald finds himself hatching out of a condor egg and dealing with an overprotective mother.

Also included is 1942’s “South Of The Border With Disney,” a 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary. It shows Disney artists, including Mary Blair, in South America getting inspiration for the keen sequences in these films. It was also on the year-2000 DVD release of Saludos Amigos.

Overall, my family agrees that there is certainly a lot here for the money, but we’re split on how great of it will stand up to bid viewing.

Wow, wow, and triple wow. It is not often that I net indignant over animation anymore, but these 40+ year old-fashioned films took my breath away. This DVD site contains “Saludos Amigos” (1943) and its follow-up, “The Three Caballeros” (1945) . A team of Disney animators visited Latin America and unexcited a wealth of film, photos, sketches, paintings, mementoes, and ideas that reflected the culture they soaked up. In “Saludos Amigos,” there is plenty of 16mm footage documenting the scurry, interspersed with 4 consuming segments: “Lake Titicaca” starring Donald Duck. “Pedro,” an ADORABLE baby airplane, “El Gaucho Goofy” starring Goofy (and to retort the “burning” inquire, there is no cigarette visible here), and my VERY approved, “Aquarela do Brasil” (Watercolor of Brazil”) . This finale could easily have been outmoded in “Fantasia.” It is a marvel of animation, color, and music. It is absolutely breathtaking. It is provocative to study what this team was able to execute together. Released two years later, “The Three Caballeros” stars Donald Duck, José Carioca (from Brazil), and Panchito Pistoles (from Mexico) . Imagine Walt Disney, Salvador Dali, and Busby Berkeley mixed together, and this film would be the result. The mixing of live-action and animation is pure brilliance. The segment “Las Posadas” is particularly stunning, and I would have to guess the visuals owe considerable to Mary Blair. The color in both films is blooming and lush, looking as if it were objective filmed yesterday. Extras include 2 Donald Duck shorts, “Don Donald” (1937) & “Contrary Condor” (1944) . “Don Donald” shows Donald in his early days, before the styling of Disney animation became unprejudiced a tad too slick. Both cartoons are very luscious. Other extras include a short Walt Disney CBC Interview where Walt discusses the birth of the 2 Latin American films presented here, and “South of the Border,” which includes distinguished of the 16mm film shot by the Disney team while in South America. Although the quality is not as sparkling as what made its scheme into the feature, it is unexcited extremely intelligent to spy. The usual Disney sneak previews can be found on this disc as well.

HIGHLY recommended; sparkling animation, and a extraordinary peak into the Latin American culture of the 40’s.