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The Three Caballeros (1944) https://letterboxd.com/smudgeefc1985...ee-caballeros/
The Big Disney Rewatch 7/56
Second in a row that I've never seen before...and second in a row that I can completely see why!
I'm not one of these people who watches old films and sees attitudes and behaviours in them that have now become dated and unacceptable and suddenly decries the whole thing as insensitive and in need of going in Room 101...but yeah, this needs to get in Room 101 for all of time!
While Saludos Amigos is unashamedly a basic travelogue propaganda with some culturally relevant cartoon shorts in between, it at least seemed to know what it was trying to be, even if I think it wasn't very good. This...I really don't know what was going on here at all.
The early part seems to be using Donald Duck's birthday to make another 'shorts put together to create a feature' thing, with some alright shorts about a penguin and a flying donkey and the Aracuan bird (best bit btw...). Then Joe Carioca turns up, and it turns into another more polished Saludos Amigos, with some bits about Brazil and Mexico. The rest is a weird creepy trippy odyssey of Donald Duck chasing girls around in bikinis (and them in true 1940s portrayals of women of course, being entirely flattered about being chased around by a pervy 3 foot tall duck in no pants...)
Kill it with fire.
The Big Disney Rewatch 7/56
Second in a row that I've never seen before...and second in a row that I can completely see why!
I'm not one of these people who watches old films and sees attitudes and behaviours in them that have now become dated and unacceptable and suddenly decries the whole thing as insensitive and in need of going in Room 101...but yeah, this needs to get in Room 101 for all of time!
While Saludos Amigos is unashamedly a basic travelogue propaganda with some culturally relevant cartoon shorts in between, it at least seemed to know what it was trying to be, even if I think it wasn't very good. This...I really don't know what was going on here at all.
The early part seems to be using Donald Duck's birthday to make another 'shorts put together to create a feature' thing, with some alright shorts about a penguin and a flying donkey and the Aracuan bird (best bit btw...). Then Joe Carioca turns up, and it turns into another more polished Saludos Amigos, with some bits about Brazil and Mexico. The rest is a weird creepy trippy odyssey of Donald Duck chasing girls around in bikinis (and them in true 1940s portrayals of women of course, being entirely flattered about being chased around by a pervy 3 foot tall duck in no pants...)
Kill it with fire.