Don Quixote (1934)
7/10
Beautifully animated but a bit insensitive.
1 October 2013
This gorgeously animated cartoon begins at the 'bughouse' (a crude reference to a mental institution) and soon you see Don Quixote in his padded cell--and such is the humor of this short. The bottom line is that there are lots of insanity jokes here. They are funny but also a bit insensitive, to say the least.

Quixote reads about all sorts of exploits of knights while he's locked up and he begins to imagine he's really a knight. So, he escapes and goes off on adventures--some of which are from the old Cervantes novel (such as him fighting a windmill). However, when he goes to rescue a damsel in distress, he doesn't find the fair Dulcinea but an ugly lady who won't take no for an answer. When the Don's keeper shows up, he, too, must fend off the lady's advances.

As I said, it is kind of funny but the best thing about this Celebrity cartoon is the animation and the gorgeous full color. It looks great...even if its sensitivities aren't exactly politically correct!
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