History YMMV / TheThreeCaballeros

** An obscure one, but when the narrator of the last story before Jose's introduction says [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 "Let it go, let it go"]] when he's having trouble deciding whether or not he was on a tree or rock when hunting.

* CriticalBacklash: Many critics either outright dislike the film or simply find it boring. However, general audiences like the film just fine, as shown with the popularity of both Jose and Panchito.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: ''The Three Caballeros'' is so flashy, so thrown-together, so explosively colorful and so fast-paced that it makes ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' look like ''Steamboat Willie'' in comparison.

* DesignatedHero: Jose and Panchito, despite being supposedly good friends of Donald, are surprisingly cruel to him throughout the film. During the titular song, they stomp over him and point guns at his head. Then, while he's trying to hit his Piñata, they pull it out of the way and laugh behind his back as he accidentally hits himself with the bat. Finally, during the final bullfight sequence, Jose lights up Donald's bull costume just to screw with him, then [[AssShove shoves a pair of firecrackers up his ass]]. Jose and Donald aren't much less violent towards Panchito while he's singing, straight up attempting to murder him repeatedly, in ways that sometimes backfire (such as when they tried to saw the floor out from under him).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Japanese and Latino Disney fans actually adore this film and place it along their big classic movies like ''Snow White'' or ''The Lion King'', compared to most American Disney fans who largely ignore this movie or are unaware of its existance. It helps that the fans of this movie love the Latin representation and the chemistry between the three leads.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: ''Las Posadas'' features the very colorful work of Mary Blair, and sets somewhat of a preview of her art she would do for ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' and ''Disney/PeterPan''.

** An obscure one, but when the narrator of the last story before Jose's introduction says [[Disney/{{Frozen}} "Let it go, let it go"]] when he's having trouble deciding whether or not he was on a tree or rock when hunting.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: ''The Three Caballeros'' is so flashy, so thrown-together, so explosively colorful and so fast-paced that it makes ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' look like ''Steamboat Willie'' in comparison.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / MexicansLoveSpeedyGonsalez: Japanese and Latino Disney fans actually adore this film and place it along their big classic movies like ''Snow White'' or ''The Lion King'', compared to most American Disney fans who largely ignore this movie or are unaware of its existance. It helps that the fans of this movie love the Latin representation and the chemistry between the three leads.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzalez: Japanese and Latino Disney fans actually adore this film and place it along their big classic movies like ''Snow White'' or ''The Lion King'', compared to most American Disney fans who largely ignore this movie or are unaware of its existance. It helps that the fans of this movie love the Latin representation and the chemistry between the three leads.

** The scene where Donald tries to resize himself by blowing into his thumb, only to [[InflatingBodyGag inflate]] into a bunch of random shapes has become ''very'' popular among [=deviantART=] users, for [[Rule34 obvious reasons]].

* EarWorm:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbjxwaZZVBE The Aracuan]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u1U1pImlkM "Os Quindins de Iaiá"]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC_uh1m-eI "Lilongo"]]

* SequelDisplacement: ''The Three Caballeros'' remains better-known and more-often-milked than ''Saludos Amigos''. The fact that ''Caballeros'' was the most widely available post-Golden Age package film on [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo VHS]] for a long time, while ''Amigos'' ended up becoming one of the last two to come to the format, certainly helped.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** The Aracuan Bird was apparently such a hit, he would later be found driving Donald crazy in later Disney shorts.
** The Three Caballeros, as a whole, are Ensemble Darkhorses among the Disney fandom, some going as far as to consider them as a better PowerTrio than ''Mickey/Donald/Goofy'', particularly in their respective representative countries.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: After Yaya gets left behind by the others, Donald shows up with a bouquet of flowers for her, which immediately earns him a kiss from Yaya.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Blog/UnshavedMouse has [[https://unshavedmouse.com/2012/09/12/disney-reviews-by-the-unshaved-mouse-7-the-three-caballeros/ argued]] that Jose is not as benevolent as he seems, due to his use of (in his own words) "black magic", and his description of Bahia ("When you go to Bahia, my friend, you ''never'' return!") that sounds quite ominous out of context.

* CounterpartComparison: The Aracuan Bird is a red-crested pointy-beaked ScrewySquirrel who talks in a high-pitched sped up voice and was created during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. [[WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker Sound familiar?]]

* MemeticMutation: The scene where Donald tries to resize himself by blowing into his thumb, only to [[InflatingBodyGag inflate]] into a bunch of random shapes has become ''very'' popular among [=deviantART=] users.

* DesignatedHero: Jose and Panchito, despite being supposedly good friends of Donald, are surprisingly cruel to him throughout the film. During the titular song, they stomp over him and point guns at his head. Then, while he's trying to hit his Piñata, they pull it out of the way and laugh behind his back as he accidentally hits himself with the bat. Finally, during the final bullfight sequence, Jose lights up Donald's bull costume just to screw with him, then [[AssShove shoves a pair of firecrackers up his ass]]. Jose and Donald aren't much less violent towards Panchito while he's singing, straight up attempting to murder him repeatedly, in ways that sometimes backfire (such as when they tried to saw the floor out from under him). Since these are a duck, a parrot, and a chicken, creatures with brains the size of walnuts, the trio's behavior in general may be attributed simply to a very short attention span, rather than malice.

** Although the trio shown to have attractions to many girls, Panchito and Jose (especially Jose) shown to have strange attraction to Donald as well. So maybe they really are three gay caballeros! Or well, two, seeing as we know for a fact that [[CasanovaWannabe Donald]] likes the ladies, but still.

* DesignatedHero: Jose and Panchito, despite being supposedly good friends of Donald, are surprisingly cruel to him throughout the film. During the titular song, they stomp over him and point guns at his head. Then, while he's trying to hit his Piñata, they pull it out of the way and laugh behind his back as he accidentally hits himself with the bat. Finally, during the final bullfight sequence, Jose lights up Donald's bull costume just to screw with him, then [[AssShove shoves a pair of firecrackers up his ass]]. Jose and Donald aren't much less violent towards Panchito while he's singing, straight up attempting to murder him repeatedly, in ways that sometimes backfire (such as when they tried to saw the floor out from under him).
** Since these are a duck, a parrot, and a chicken, creatures with brains the size of walnuts, the trio's behavior in general may be attributed simply to a very short attention span, rather than malice.
* EarWorm: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbjxwaZZVBE The Aracuan]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u1U1pImlkM "Os Quindins de Iaiá"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC_uh1m-eI "Lilongo"]] are also this.

* HilariousInHindsight: An obscure one, but when the narrator of the last story before Jose's introduction says [[Disney/{{Frozen}} "Let it go, let it go"]] when he's having trouble deciding whether or not he was on a tree or rock when hunting.

* HoYay: Although the trio shown to have attractions to many girls, Panchito and Jose (especially Jose) shown to have strange attraction to Donald as well. So maybe they really are three gay caballeros! Or well, two, seeing as we know for a fact that [[CasanovaWannabe Donald]] likes the ladies, but still.

* DesignatedHero: Jose and Panchito, despite being supposedly good friends of Donald, are surprisingly cruel to him throughout the film. During the titular song, they stomp over him and point guns at his head. Then, while he's trying to hit his Piñata, they pull it out of the way and laugh behind his back as he accidentally hits himself with the bat. Finally, during the final bullfight sequence, Jose lights up Donald's bull costume just to screw with him, then [[AssShove shoves a pair of firecrackers up his ass]].
** Jose and Donald aren't much less violent towards Panchito while he's singing, straight up attempting to murder him repeatedly, in ways that sometimes backfire (such as when they tried to saw the floor out from under him).
** Since these are ducks and parrots, creatures with brains the size of walnuts, the trio's behavior in general may be attributed simply to a very short attention span, rather than malice.

* CrazyAwesome: The Aracuan Bird.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwGs9vKm9SY We're Three Caballeros!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wedmjYnTPxE Aaaahhh, Bahia!]]

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Donald getting sucked into the soundtrack.

* MemeticMutation: The scene where Donald tries to resize himself by blowing into his thumb, only to [[InflatingBodyGag inflate]] into a bunch of random shapes has become ''very'' popular among [=deviantART=] users, for [[FetishFuel obvious reasons]].

* BrokenBase: The attempts to [[RogerRabbitEffect mix live-action and animation]] are either [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome impressive]] or [[SpecialEffectFailure unconvincing]] depending on the reviewer.
** Some TakeAThirdOption and say that while they don't consider them to look very impressive compared to [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit later]] [[Film/SpaceJam attempts]] at mixing live-action and hand-drawn animation, they still look quite impressive [[TechnologyMarchesOn for their time]].

** Some TakeAThirdOption and say that while they don't consider them to look very impressive compared to [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit later]] [[Film/SpaceJam attempts]] at mixing live-action and hand-drawn animation, they still look quite impressive [[TechnologyMarchesOn for their time]].

* BrokenBase: The attempts to [[RogerRabbitEffect mix live action and animation]] are either [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome impressive]] or [[SpecialEffectFailure unconvincing]] depending on the reviewer.

* JustHereForGodzilla: There are many inflation fetishists on Website/DeviantArt who are only interested in the film for the scene where Donald fails to return to his regular size.
* NightmareFuel: Certain parts of the film can be a little ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs too]]'' surreal for some.