Disney Animated Canon 6-8

Saludos Amigos - 6.8/10

I can't decide what this film is. A documentary? A travelogue? Tourism advertisement? Silly entertainment? DVD special features? What? I never had any idea what this film was or what it was about, so I had no clue what to expect going in save that it was really short (40 minutes). A collection of shorts connected by narration and shots of the animators traveling around gathering inspiration was interesting, but more suited to a TV special or something than a feature release, in my opinion.


The Three Caballeros - 6.5/10

Maybe it's because I had my fill of docu-travelogue in Saludos Amigos, but this film was much less enjoyable than it's predecessor. This was another one I had no knowledge of save that Donald Duck was in it (and I knew a bit of the theme song from a clip in one of the AMV Hells). The framing device this time is Donald has received some birthday gifts from his friends in Latin America. Throughout the film we see various semi-educational semi-cultural segments, some live action and some animated. José Carioco reappears (seriously, he's my favorite part of these two films, and I wish Disney had hung onto him, as he's actually an interesting character and a thousand times less irritating than Donald), and there's a new Mexican rooster whose name I don't know. (*Checks IMDB*) Okay, so his name is Panchito, but I'll be damned if they ever mentioned it in the movie.

Many (by which I mean all) of the segments ran way too long and though they might have been interesting to begin with were downright boring by the time they were over. And way too much time was spent on Donald trying to hit on chicks. The best parts of the movie were the bits in between the travel segments where Donald, José and the rooster were just goofing around. If there had been more of that and (a lot) less pointless live-action dancing, I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more. 


Make Mine Music - 6.9/10

What does this title mean? Seriously, what? Are we ordering at a restaurant and I'm just hungry for a song? It doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, this is another movie I had never seen and the only thing I knew about it was that it was a collection of musically-themed shorts. And that's pretty much all there is to know, really. A few of them were kind of interesting, a couple were pretty childish, and a few made it feel like I was watching a poor man's Fantasia. Not much else to say, really. Definitely a step up from Three Caballeros, though.