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- 1943
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 42 m
- 1943
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 42 m
Summary "A brief, 40-minute feature commissioned by the U.S. government as part of its 'Good Neighbor' policy toward its neighbors to the south." - The A.V. Club. Disney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip.
- 1943
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 42 m
- 1943
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 42 m
Saludos Amigos
Metascore
Mixed or Average
60
6.7
Summary "A brief, 40-minute feature commissioned by the U.S. government as part of its 'Good Neighbor' policy toward its neighbors to the south." - The A.V. Club. Disney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip.
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
60
50% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
60
50% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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A good-neighborly, Technicolor whimsey that has made Walt Disney one of South America's favorite North Americans.
As always in Mr. Disney's pictures, the quality of the humor is bright and sly, with touches of gentle satire laced in with jovial fun.
Saludos Amigos and its sequel (or, more accurately, expansion), The Three Caballeros, had a shelf life significantly shorter than that of your standard MRE. Together, they kicked off nearly a decade’s worth of anthology-based wastes of time and resources that all but derailed Disney’s manifest destiny to rewrite children’s dreams in the corporation’s own latently art deco, actively anti-twat image until Cinderella put the needle back on the record.
Amigos sandwiches four pedestrian animated shorts—two featuring Donald Duck, one featuring a Gaucho Goofy, and the fourth starring a family of anthropomorphic planes—inside agonizingly dull travelogue footage of Disney writers, artists, and musicians on a research trip, exploring all that Latin and South America have to offer. The stale, joy-killing odor of the classroom hangs heavy over Saludos Amigos: it aspires to educate and entertain, but fails on both counts.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.7
40% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.7
40% Positive
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
