Sunday, April 25, 2021

Saludos Amigos (1942)

IMDb plot summary: Disney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip.
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, and 3 others. Starring Fred Shields and José Oliveira.

This is a decently entertaining piece of educational film, but educational film is most definitely what it is. The cartoon gags fit around the facts about each country and their culture, not vice versa, which is kind of a cool thing to do, just not what I was expecting from this and not something I'd sit down to rewatch. Several of these shorts are framed with some words about the cartoonists' perspective -- what about this country inspired this kind of story, how character types in one country reminded them of character types in their own, and so on, which gives it a kind of "behind the scenes" feel. It's an interesting one to watch once but definitely isn't one I want to revisit.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Saludos Amigos < Jumanji
Saludos Amigos > Adam's Rib
Saludos Amigos < The Woman in Black
Saludos Amigos > The Devil is a Woman
Saludos Amigos < The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Saludos Amigos < Labor Day
Saludos Amigos > Despicable Me
Saludos Amigos > The Milagro Beanfield War
Saludos Amigos > The Fugitive
Saludos Amigos < State Fair
Saludos Amigos > Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Final spot: #2253 out of 3349, or 33%.

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