| The Three Caballeros | 
| Director: Norman Ferguson
Actors: Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway, Clarence Nash
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (58 reviews)
Sales Rank: 11969
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 69 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0788821393
UPC: 717951008503
EAN: 9780788821394
ASIN: B00004R995
Release Date: May 2, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: February 3, 1945
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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!
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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 senorita who bustles across the screen. Although some will say otherwise, Caballeros is for die-hard Disney, Donald, or psychedelia fans only. --Keith Simanton
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A Childhood Favorite December 9, 2008
This was one of my favorite movies as a small child. I was probably about two or three years old when I saw it for the first time. Every bit of it held my attention, although I favored certain scenes over others--the ones with bouncy music in particular. The slow and languid "You Belong to My Heart" marked my least favorite part of The Three Caballeros, but Donald acting silly and swooning over the woman singing the song always helped make up for it.
Some reviewers claim that the film is too confusing for children. While Three Caballeros is a surreal travelogue that jumps in different directions, I never found it confusing or boring as a wee tot. On the other hand, the "sexual references" some reviewers mention never entered my head. All I saw was that Donald loved being with pretty girls.
Someone with fragile sensibilities might be offended by the following: 1) Jose Carioca's cigar; 2) Donald chasing pretty girls; 3) Panchito Pistole's pistols; 4) colorful psychedelic images, oh my.
Others get impatient with The Three Caballeros because it doesn't follow a smooth, coherent storyline the way other Disney movies like Snow White and Cinderella do. It was a very experimental movie: Mostly it's a travelogue to give Americans a little taste of Mexico and South America, with Donald Duck representing the American tourist. There are musical numbers, short cartoons with independent storylines, and surreal Fantasia-like segments.
The Three Caballeros is a Disney movie that I enjoy to this day, and one that I wouldn't hesitate to share with my children.
 Part travelogue; part acid trip: May 26, 2008
This Disney movie is interesting in that it is virtually plotless. It begins with a couple of cute cartoons about a penguin and then a flying donkey, but later turns into a Latin American travelogue, that evovles into a full-blast, semi-erotic, Mexican, acid trip. And the movie was made some twenty years before the psychodelic sixties! Actually, from what I understand, it was produced as part of of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy" initiative concerning Latin America.
I think that it's all highly imaginative and my three year old loves it, as did his older siblings and his cousin when they were his age. The kids are too young to grasp the sexy images of the 1940s; and they all love the cartoons, old Latin music and Donald Duck who also happens to be the star of the movie.
 Just very average April 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
disney movie shows a lot of imagination but seems to lack a theme to tie ideas together. It ended so abruptly I thought there should be something more.
Stop taking things so seriously August 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved this film and rented it many many times as a child. Nothing about this film offended my parents and especially didn't offend me. Donald Duck's supposed sexual romps involve nothing more than chasing women around on the beach which lead into many sight gags as the girls throw him up into the air etc. etc. I do not see a problem with this kind of light humor, it is already being seen by your children on their local cartoon networks and nickelodeons. (Not to mention that your children won't give it a second thought) I also do not understand why this film "isn't for children". It is almost euphorically happy and fast paced with many gags that both children and their parents can laugh at.(not to mention incredibly colorful and eye catching)I do not understand also the idea of "drugs" being an influence on this kind of thing. Research shows that creativity is heightened more when you are sober...I have a feeling that the "trippy" animation done in this film was an outlet of creativity for the animators and trying to test their boundaries to see what they could get away with...and also to provide something unexpted for the audience. All in all this is incredibly entertaining (with wonderful music), mostly tasteful and very appropriate for anyone of any age...and shouldn't offend you anymore (or in fact less) than your child's current favorite program/film.P.S. I showed this to my younger brother (who is about 14 years younger than me and is in elementary school) and he absolutely loved it and begged me to buy him a copy. Take it from me and get a copy for your kids.
Love the movie, hate the censorship February 28, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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
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