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Teeth Around the Ring. Like the auto industry, the toy industry in general figured that demand was strong enough to make new lines unnecessary. But there are some new toys. Samples: ¶ A wooden penguin which continually dunks its beak into a glass of water. (The secret: a reaction between the water and chemicals inside the bird.) ¶ The Skweez-Me Boxers, a couple of gangling woodenheads who fight and flop in their little wooden ring through manipulation of the base. ¶ A dart game in which plastic bombs are dropped when trigger releases in model planes...
Live subjects and animated caricatures do not mix, and it is this fusion of flesh and fantasy which tends to create lopsided sequences, most notably in the last reel. As a result, "Three Caballeros" emerges as a somewhat confused, aimless travelogue on Mexico with Donald Duck or the sadistic penguin sharing the spotlight with Aurora Miranda or a beachful of Mexican bathing beauties...
Carioca and by Panchito, a new bird representing Mexico, so irresolutely developed as a character that he remains in the memory chiefly as a yell with red hair. As a curtain raiser (it would make a good short by itself) there is also a rather cute penguin who travels north to an equatorial island and acquires a suntan. The movie as a whole presents the unhappy spectacle of a brilliant artist screaming his lungs out in an effort to make up for the fact that he has, for the moment, nothing...
...Malvinas, as Argentina calls the Falkland Islands, appear on Argentine maps and stamps as Argentine territory. A touching Argentine poem describes the sadness of an emigré penguin which fled to Argentina after Britain took the Falklands...
...only a penguin Still very small, Born in the Malvinas In the month of April...