THE THREE CABALLEROS
(RKO-Radio)
‘TECHNICALLY, this is the most elaborate and in some respects most efficient of all the Walt Disney features, for he manages for the first time’
to combine animated cartoon characters and cartoon backgrounds with human figures and real scenery, This is not to say, however, that he avoids incongruity. On the contrary, whether you choose to view it as art or entertainment or both, The Three Caballeros is, I am sure, the. least satisfactory of all Disney’s efforts. I would, in fact, go further and say that, taken as a whole, it is neither art nor entertainment though it has a few enjoyable moments: enough to make about three Mickey Mouse-length cartoons. The opening episode about Pablo the Penguin, who feels the cold at the South Pole and wants to go to the tropics, is what one might describe as good straight Disney; so is the bit about the boy. and the winged donkey; and there are one or two other isolated incidents in which colour, sound, and movement are blended with imagination. The general effect, however, is one of misguided ingenuity. The trouble with Disney now is that he has become a salesman first and an entertainer second, though what exactly he is trying to sell
on this occasion is a little obscure. The obvious answer, of course, is good-neigh-bourly relations with Latin America; the film is a crazy travelogue of show places in Mexico, Brazil, and other points south: but it is difficult to see what useful effect it will have on hemispheric goodwill to present Donald Duck, the emissary of the U,S., as a sort of Harpo Marx, squawking lustfyljy after every South American girl he sets eyes on (there are plenty, well exposed), Is this, in diplomatic language, what is meant by a canard? Except for the parts mentioned, The Three Caballeros is rather like the voice of Donald himself-raucous, frantic, and practically unintelligible. Speaking from experience, I cannot even suggest it as suitable for children; the two I took with me were soon even more bored and bewildered than I was,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 18
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350THE THREE CABALLEROS New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 18
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