The Three Caballeros

It is Donald Duck's birthday and he receives presents from his friends in Latin America:

• The first present is a film strip called "Strange birds" featuring information about unique birds and 2 short films: 
• Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin: A penguin named Pablo hates the cold and decides to move to South America.
• The Flying Gauchito: A young gauchito discovers and befriends a flying donkey.
• The second present is a book from Brazil that includes his old friend José Carioca (do Patrocínio Oliveira)
• The third and largest present contains a pinata from Mexico and new friend Panchito Pistoles (Garay), who takes them on a tour of Mexico.

The 7th animated Walt Disney feature film. It is a follow-up to Disney's 1943 film Saludos Amigos, which also featured Donald and José.

The Good:

The Pablo short is fun and funny. The Aracuan Bird is also funny. The title song, "Three Caballeros", is bright and memorable and appears a few times in the film.

The Bad:

The last 10-15 minutes are weird. Also, I didn't really notice it much as a kid, but Donald is girl crazy, bordering om cringey.

Other Comments:

-Nominated for 2 Academy Awards: Best Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Sound Recording. 

-The Three Caballeros received their own TV show, The Legend of the Three Caballeros in 2018 (the Aracuan Bird also appears) and appeared in the Duck Tales 2017 reboot. 

-The "Baia" sequence features Aurora Miranda as Yaya. She sings Ary Barroso's "Os Quindins de Yaya" in Portuguese.

-During the Mexico sequences singer Dora Luz performs "Young Belong to my Heart". Carmen Molina dances with Donald Duck to "La Zandunga" and "Jesusita en Chihuahua".

-Ok, but not my favorite Disney package film. The animated shorts toward the beginning are good, but the film loses it's way.

The Three Caballeros (1945) 71 minutes

Director: Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, and Jack Kinney 

Starring: Clarence Nash as Donald Duck

José do Patrocínio Oliveira as José Carioca

Joaquin Garay as Panchito Pistoles

Almirante as the Aracuan Bird

Aurora Miranda as Yaya

Dora Luz as herself

Carmen Molina as herself

Sterling Holloway as the Narrator (Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin)

Frank Graham as the Narrator

Fred Shields as the Narrator (The Flying Gauchito)