The Three Caballeros (Disney Gold Classic Collection)

Starring:Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway, Clarence Nash, Joaquin Garay, JosÃ© Oliveira, Frank Graham, Fred Shields, Nestor Amarale, Almirante, TrÃo Calaveras, TrÃo Ascencio del RÃo, Pinto Colvig
Director: Norman Ferguson
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product Type: DVD

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As a Disney oddity, they don't get much odder than Three Caballeros. Donald Duck receives a birthday package from South America, and the film proceeds to unravel like some peyote-induced hallucination. It starts out reminiscent of other Disney films, where shorts are cobbled together, such as "Make Mine Music" or "Fun and Fancy Free." The film has vignettes such as "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" and "The Flying Guachito." After them it careens straight into part-travelogue, part-stream-of-consciousness animation. Not helping out much are Donald's "friends," Joe Carioca (a parrot) and Panchito (a rooster). They spend most of the rest of the film watching Donald chase skirt. That's right, Donald Duck is a wolf in this movie, and he chases every live-action señorita who bustles across the screen. Although some will say otherwise, Caballeros is for die-hard Disney, Donald, or psychedelia fans only. --Keith Simanton

Description

The ever-popular and excitable Donald Duck stars in one of his greatest adventures -- a dazzling blend of live action and classic Disney animation bursting with south of the border sights and sounds! When Donald receives a magical collection of gifts from his Latin American friends, they become his passport to a fantastic musical journey with Joe Carioca and Panchito, the charro rooster. With these experts to guide him, Donald hops, skips, and jumps his way through every splash of local color -- each stop full of surprises and sensational songs!

Customer Reviews:

Love the movie, hate the censorship.......2007-03-01

I am a HUGE fan of this movie, but this DVD (as well as the Saludos Amigos, Melody Time, and Make Mine Music DVDs) seriously panders to the soccer-mom crowd. Smoking (from Goofy in Saludos, and an innocent bystander in Caballeros) is "digitally altered" (i.e. censored), while Jose Carioca (who is in both movies) still HAS his cigar!

If Disney had wanted to censor smoking, they should have "digitally altered" Jose Carioca's cigar! I wouldn't be complaining about it if they'd been equal-opportunity butchers (and even then I'd be complaining).

Please Disney, since you're putting the Three Caballeros into the place once occupied by El Rio Del Tiempo, PLEASE re-release this on DVD and PLEASE kill the butchering!!

BJ

Classic donald at his best.......2007-02-13

This Disney movie was the 9th animated feature to be released by since Snow White. This ancient movie was first released way back in 1944. This year marks the 63 anniversary of this movie was first released in reel format and was later in the late 1990s or early 2000s was reformatted into VHS format. A word of warning even though this movie got a G rating I do not recommend it to any one under the age of 7. If you are 7 to ten years of age this movie should be fine for you. The reasons why I don't recommend this too any under seven is cause it has some parts with mild cartoon violence and there are also are several parts when character of Josa is seen using a cigar and is holding in his hand or mouth and occasional seen puffing on . In addition there is also a part mid way through the movie with a short brief use of Voodoo magic when Donald and Hosa have to say and incantation then put one of there fingers in there mouth blow to make themselves grow bigger so they can get access to the rest of Donald's other birthday presents. For those of you that like Disney movies but think this movie is to light and not intense and dark enough and want more adventure and action and your 11 years old or older I recommend Sleeping Beauty, Sword and the Stone and The Black Cauldron. For kids thirteen and older I recommend Pirates of The Caribbean Curse of the black Pearl and Dead Mans Chest.

Curious Mix of Walt Disney Animation.......2006-10-13

THE THREE CABALLEROS is a curious mix of Walt Disney's animation. Some of the film is traditional and familiar of the Walt Disney genre of the time. Donald Duck is the center figure in this Latin American travelogue with a mixture of animation and live action. "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" sequence come off best. I love the DVD. It is vivid. You can even see the original brush strokes!

Love the movie, hate the DVD!.......2006-06-10

This was one of my favorites as a kid. I was really disappointed with this DVD. You can see the film grains, especially in the live action/animated scenes. Also, I don't remember the film entirely, but it seems like they left ALOT of stuff out that was in the original movie. Its weird that they would NOT take the time to perform a restoration of some sort when transferring from VHS to DVD.

Disney Does Latin America, for better or worse.......2006-05-28

Although Disney originally released this feature (and "Saludos Amigos") in the 1940s to improve relations with Latin American countries, I think it's a bit more effective as an introduction to Latin music, art and dance. Carmen Molina does a beautiful rendition of "You Belong to My Heart" (although "Solamente Una Vez" sounds much better), as does the singer of "Bahia". The genius of "Caballeros" is the animation, although the integration of animation and film looks shoddy to our "Finding Nemo"-accustomed eyes, it was pretty cutting edge at the time of its release. Also, it's almost as though the color palettes in the animation were used to reflect Latin American art and textiles: vibrant golds, orange-reds and verdant greens. I don't think you need to be in an altered state to enjoy the hap-hazard animation - just enjoy the detail and coloring. This would be a 5-star review if Disney animators had done better research - there's several spelling errors on the maps shown in the film (i.e. "Valpraiso" instead of Valparaiso). I guess Disney didn't figure that any Latinos would actually pay money to see this film back then. I heard people complain about Donald Duck's blatant womanizing in this film, but I saw this as a kid and never really picked up on that.{Who can blame him around us Latin women ;>)} Apart from that, this is an enjoyable film for kids & adults and a nice way to get a taste of classic Latin ballads, dancing and a little art too.

Average customer rating:

Love the movie, hate the censorship
Classic donald at his best
Curious Mix of Walt Disney Animation
Love the movie, hate the DVD!
Disney Does Latin America, for better or worse

The Three Caballeros [Region 2]
Starring: Aurora Miranda , Carmen Molina , Dora Luz , Sterling Holloway , and Clarence Nash
Director: Norman Ferguson
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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