An average movie

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since it is one of the famous Disney Classics, I was still eager to check it out. In fact, I thought I already saw it but I confused it with ‘The Three Caballeros’ released around the same time. Both movies have many similarities as they don’t have one storyline but are composed of sketches all dealing with South American (Apparently, those movies were created by Disney in order to improve the US relations with South American countries during World War II). I know, it doesn’t sound really fun and, indeed, it wasn’t and we are far from the impressive productions of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, ‘Pinocchio’ or ‘Bambi’. I was also surprised about how short the whole thing was! Indeed, with a running time of just above 40 minutes, it is the shortest movie produced by Disney and it can hardly be called a full length feature. At least, it introduced José Carioca who was a pretty neat character but he never managed to reach the same status as Donald or Mickey. Anyway, to conclude, it is a rather weak feature and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except if you are a die-hard Disney fan.

5/10