Monday, July 5, 2010

The Three Caballeros

So I can't sleep at all, and neither could my sister. So after we sat down and annoyed my mom with stories about David Bowie and Alice in Wonderland until she kicked us out of her room, we had nothing to do. So I went through all the movies I downloaded, and found that my dad downloaded EVERY SINGLE DISNEY ANIMATED MOVIE EVER MADE. And I don't just mean the good ones, I mean ALL OF THEM. Everything from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" to the "Princess and the Frog" were downloaded. (This also includes the ones I don't like, such as "Dumbo", "Pinocchio" and "Song of the South".) My sister and I decided to sit down and watch a montage of Disney movies, starting with "The Three Caballeros". I haven't seen it since I was about ten, so I went along with my sister's decision.
It was a mistake. Not a terrible mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. Here were my problems with it:
1. Alice In Wonderland made more sense.
2. How does a penguin deal with the change in climate between the South Pole and the Galapagos?
3. A random Amazon bird that looks like Woody the Woodpecker.
4. Dancing Brazilian gondoliers? WTF?
5. Yaya does not look South American. She looks like a mix between the Chiquita lady and those women dressed as tavern wenches at a Renaissance Faire.
6. Swirling colors, a dance sequence and strange guitars, of love?
7. Flying donkeys? What?!
8. I'm pretty sure I saw a guy in the same suit Jose was wearing. It was in a history textbook. And it wasn't 1945.
So yeah, it was a confusing mindfuck. Besides the fact that swirling colors normally mean being drunk or on acid. See: Pink Elephants from "Dumbo" or "I Am the Walrus" from "Across the Universe".
Yes, Disney. I know you guys were targeting kids. And nothing makes sense when a six-year-old is on a sugar high. But when this is what you guys come up with, you need better writers. And possibly actors.
But at least make some sense! This movie seems to be a nine-year-old's perception of Latin America. (Without the beach resorts and Mexican food.) If that nine-year-old had something put in his Juicy Juice. Who also liked Donald Duck. And donkeys. And birds.
In my opinion, this movie was...forgettable. You'll vaguely remember it as "that movie with Donald Duck and those birds" ten years from now. Or ten minutes. Matters how you think...
End rant/review.

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