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==Critical reception==
''The Three Caballeros'' received mixed reviews upon its original release. Most critics were relatively perplexed by the "technological razzle-dazzle" of the film, thinking that, in contrast to the previous feature films up to this time, "it displayed more flash than substance, more technique than artistry."<ref name="StevenWatts">{{cite book|last=Watts|first=Steven|year=1997|title=The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life|url=https://archive.org/details/magickingdomwalt0000watt|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]]|location=New York.|page=[https://archive.org/details/magickingdomwalt0000watt/page/248 248]|isbn=0-395-83587-9}}</ref> [[Bosley Crowther]] for one wrote in ''The New York Times'', "Dizzy Disney and his playmates have let their technical talents run wild."<ref name="StevenWatts"/> Other reviewers were taken aback by the sexual dynamics of the film, particularly the idea of Donald Duck lusting towards flesh-and-blood women. As [[Wolcott Gibbs]] put it<ref>"What Hath Walt Wrought," ''New Yorker'', 10 February 1945, in Wolcott Gibbs, ''Backward Ran Sentences'' (Bloomsbury, 2011), p. 598.</ref> in a negative review of the film for ''[[The New Yorker]]'', such a concept "is one of those things that might disconcert less squeamish authorities than the Hays office. It might even be said that a sequence involving the duck, the young lady, and a long alley of animated cactus plants would probably be considered suggestive in a less innocent medium."<ref name="LeonardMaltin">{{cite book|last=Maltin|first=Leonard|year=1973|title=The Disney Films|publisher=Bonanza Books|location=New York.|page=67|isbn=0-517-177412}}</ref>

The film holds an 84% approval rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 19 reviews, with an average score of 6.50/10. The site's consensus reads, "One of Disney's more abstract creations, ''The Three Caballeros'' is a dazzling, colorful picture that shows the company at an artistic acme."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_three_caballeros|title=The Three Caballeros (1945)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref>

===Accolades===
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! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
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| rowspan="2"| [[18th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Scoring of a Musical Picture]]
| [[Edward H. Plumb]], [[Paul Smith (composer)|Paul Smith]] and [[Charles Wolcott]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2" align="center"| <ref name="Oscars1946">{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1946 |title=The 18th Academy Awards - 1946 |access-date=July 26, 2020 |work=oscars.org |publisher=Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences}}</ref>
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| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound Recording]]
| [[Sam Slyfield|C. O. Slyfield]]
| {{nom}}
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| [[10th Venice International Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]]
| [[Golden Lion]]
| [[Walt Disney]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Venice Film Festival (1949)|url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/1949/1/|access-date=2020-10-21|website=IMDb}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=The Three Caballeros|url=https://mubi.com/films/the-three-caballeros|language=en-US|access-date=2020-10-21}}</ref>
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