Original theatrical trailers – the trailers to Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros. Only thing that would be cool was the addition of The Three Caballeros film. Otherwise, top notch features. FINAL THOUGHTS Walt & El Grupo is a well-made documentary that goes into some depth of a specific period of Disney’s unique history. It showed Walt Disney as a human being: smiling/dancing/smoking/having fun. It’s the side that the Disney Company doesn’t show with theme park attractions/movie archive footage/and their gazillion book releases. I don’t even remember the 2001 documentary, Walt: The Man Behind the Myth, showing Walt as a human being like this! This film also represents the time period well (WWII, Holocaust, and Walt’s own company falling from grace). What I was surprised about is the candid interviews that were made: not just from the Disney family as well as the family of the artists/writers that went along with Disney to South America, but the people’s family from South America that impacted Walt’s visit. Real people were interviewed. Not actors. Not celebrities. But real people. People with old film footage/black & white pictures/and letters written during that time. It’s as candid as it could be for a Disney-made-documentary. I am curious if Waking Sleepy Beauty, The Boys, and Walt & El Grupo is a start of a series of DVD releases (much like the Disney Platinum Edition DVD sets that went on a decade ago, as well as the Walt Disney Treasure DVD sets). I would love to see future documentaries, going into details of Disney crucial/controversial moments in its company’s history.
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story SYNOPSIS An intimate journey through the lives of Robert and Richard Sherman, the astoundingly prolific Academy Award winning songwriting team. CRITIQUE