Señorella and the Glass Huarache

1964
6.1| 0h6m| en| More Info
Released: 01 August 1964 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Cartoons
Country: United States of America
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Synopsis

In a Mexican restaurant, a man named Jose tells to his friend, Manuel, the story of Senorella, a Mexican version of Cinderella. Senorella's dream of liberation from her slavish existence under the yoke of her wicked "Strap-mother" and "Strap-seesters", comes true after her fairy godmother grants her a night as a ravishing beauty at the fiesta at a bullfighter's father's estate.

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Mel Blanc

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Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Steineded How sad is this?
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Edgar Allan Pooh . . . Our Leader Trump's warnings about Mexico. SENORELLA AND THE GLASS HUARACHE is the last in a long line of cautionary tales from an Animation Division with an unmatched Gift of Prophecy. Beginning in the Early 1930s, these mostly unsung prognosticators used their cartoons to accurately predict and warn America of its approaching Cataclysms, Catastrophes, and Apocalypti, including World War Two, the Kennedy Assassination, Space Shuttle Challenger's explosion, and 9-11. But as with Cassandra in the Olden Days, most Americans took Warner's warnings with a grain of salt, dismissing them and traipsing blithely into the Buzzsaw of their Doom. SENORELLA is depicted here as a seductive hooker in a red dress, no doubt harboring numerous STD's, including body lice. (Warner may be basing her on John Wayne's second wife--a documented Mexican "Working Girl"--who gave "Il Duce" a quick-acting form of Syphillis which transformed him practically overnight from a Robin Hood-like Champion of the Union Man into a Goose-Stepping Fascist Snitch.) SENORELLA hangs out with cockroaches and pigs, waiting for her opportunity to enter America under false pretenses like Mrs. Wayne II. Since Leader Trump has spent many years personally conducting undercover investigations of the SENORELLA Problem that doomed John Wayne and so many others, this animated short can be seen as Trump's very first endorsement.
slymusic Written by John Dunn and featuring a very good south-of-the-border music score by Bill Lava, "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is a fairly adequate Warner Bros. cartoon that spoofs the famous story of Cinderella. Two silhouetted Mexicans (voiced by Mel Blanc and Tom Holland) discuss the story of poor Senorella as we segue into flashbacks of her amazing transformation from rags to riches. The animation is rather stiff, but, as we shall see, this stiffness is an integral part of the humor of this cartoon.My favorite moments from "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" include the following. Senorella is quite amusing as she shakes her hips to a growling trumpet accompaniment. Also funny is a meek little chihuahua as it suddenly growls in Senorella's face. After a bull rams Don Miguel into a wall, Miguel punches the bull away from him! But the funniest moment of all involves Don Miguel's son Jose dancing with Senorella; the stiff animation, combined with the bland facial expressions of the couple, are what make me laugh at this sequence."Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is not the Warner Bros. animation department's finest hour, but it doesn't matter; I very much enjoy this cartoon and what it has to offer. One thing that arouses my curiosity, though: I wonder if audiences from the mid-1960s were ready to see tattoos on women's arms in animated cartoons. Considering that the sixties were a strange time frame, probably so.
Lee Eisenberg In the last Warner Bros. cartoon made before the studio closed its animation unit, a man tells his friend the story of Senorella, a Mexican version of Cinderella. Obviously, fairy tales are some of the easiest stories to work with, and the Warner Bros. animation unit had been doing it from very early on. I should note, however, that the animation looks kind of metallic here and the narration starts sounding like an echo.Otherwise, "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is worth at least checking out. As for possible stereotyping of Mexicans, it's nothing that we haven't seen in a Speedy Gonzales cartoon. Now available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5. And if you ask me, considering that around the time that this came out was also about that time that the studio retired Bugs Bunny, they shouldn't have attempted anything after that (except for the compilation films).Back when Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising made the first Bosko cartoon for Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1930 (which released its cartoons through WB), they probably had no idea that their studio would branch out into things like this.
ccthemovieman-1 A Mexican version of the famous "Cinderella And The Glass Slipper" story? Yup, that's what you get here in this modern-day Looney Tunes cartoon. I say "modern day" because I don't recall seeing any cartoons in the LT Golden Collection DVDs made as late as 1964. I have seen all the collections but Volume Four, and can't recall any of the '60s. The opening graphics are so different than the '40s and '50s it was almost a shock to see. The artwork was good, though: very colorful and done well in a new style for Looney Tunes.The story would probably be censored by Politically-Correct Police of today as it uses names for Mexicans such as "Sarsaparilla, Tabasco," and other phrases; anything that sounds Spanish and the accents are a bit exaggerated. (I'm not on PC side unless it is overtly racist or mean-spirited to any group.) This has a nice side; it's not trying to demean Hispanics but by today's standards, it comes across as a bit condescending in spots. Not every Mexican is a bullfighter, or wears a sombrero everywhere, or can't spell or brutalizes the English language, etc.Anyway, the humor is "fair," nothing super but not bad. I liked the colorful and modern artwork, and the faces and "latest dresses from Madrid" of the women, were a lot of fun to watch. This was a hoot for the eyes, even if the jokes were a little too corny to laugh.

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