Touches You

the audience applauded

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

. . . Our Leader Trump's warnings about Mexico. SENORELLA AND THE GLASS HUARACHE is the last in a long line of cautionary tales from an Animation Division with an unmatched Gift of Prophecy. Beginning in the Early 1930s, these mostly unsung prognosticators used their cartoons to accurately predict and warn America of its approaching Cataclysms, Catastrophes, and Apocalypti, including World War Two, the Kennedy Assassination, Space Shuttle Challenger's explosion, and 9-11. But as with Cassandra in the Olden Days, most Americans took Warner's warnings with a grain of salt, dismissing them and traipsing blithely into the Buzzsaw of their Doom. SENORELLA is depicted here as a seductive hooker in a red dress, no doubt harboring numerous STD's, including body lice. (Warner may be basing her on John Wayne's second wife--a documented Mexican "Working Girl"--who gave "Il Duce" a quick-acting form of Syphillis which transformed him practically overnight from a Robin Hood-like Champion of the Union Man into a Goose-Stepping Fascist Snitch.) SENORELLA hangs out with cockroaches and pigs, waiting for her opportunity to enter America under false pretenses like Mrs. Wayne II. Since Leader Trump has spent many years personally conducting undercover investigations of the SENORELLA Problem that doomed John Wayne and so many others, this animated short can be seen as Trump's very first endorsement.

From the viewpoint of a long-term animation fan, I did enjoy Senorella and the Glass Huarache. While it didn't wow me, it was interesting and did give me some pleasure. This said, I wouldn't go as far as say that Senorella and the Glass Huarache was great. The story, while the spoof and the concept are very interesting, could have done with some tighter pacing, and does feel routine and predictable. There are also some amusing moments, but nothing really hilarious or what I consider fresh. On the plus side, I did like the animation. It wasn't amazing, with some stiffness here and there, but the stylised style-with use of very thick lines-of it did look colourful complete with backgrounds that don't look too rushed or sparse(like the later Speedy Gonzales cartoons) and decent character designs. Bill Lava's music is another strong asset, the style working much better than it did in the Speedy and Roadrunner-Coyote cartoons, it is very catchy and gives a lot of energy to Senorella and the Glass Huarache. The characters are at least engaging, Senorella is wonderfully vivacious. True, they are stereotypes, but not overdone or offensive ones. Mel Blanc as ever excels in the vocals. All in all, amusing if not hilarious. 7/10 Bethany Cox

In the last Warner Bros. cartoon made before the studio closed its animation unit, a man tells his friend the story of Senorella, a Mexican version of Cinderella. Obviously, fairy tales are some of the easiest stories to work with, and the Warner Bros. animation unit had been doing it from very early on. I should note, however, that the animation looks kind of metallic here and the narration starts sounding like an echo.Otherwise, "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is worth at least checking out. As for possible stereotyping of Mexicans, it's nothing that we haven't seen in a Speedy Gonzales cartoon. Now available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5. And if you ask me, considering that around the time that this came out was also about that time that the studio retired Bugs Bunny, they shouldn't have attempted anything after that (except for the compilation films).Back when Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising made the first Bosko cartoon for Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1930 (which released its cartoons through WB), they probably had no idea that their studio would branch out into things like this.

I first saw this short on the new Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 5 DVD set. It was the last short from the original Warner Bros. Animation studio before closing in 1963 and having DePatie-Freleng take over the Looney Tunes series. Coincidentally, this short actually DOES resemble a DePatie-Freleng cartoon! For one thing, it uses the "modernized" abstract Looney Tunes opening and closing sequence with the bizarre theme music that was used on all LT shorts from 1965 onward. The logo was originally intended for stylized one-shot cartoons from the original studio, the first two being "Now Hear This" (done in a totally-abstract, artistic style by Chuck Jones) and "Bartholomew Versus the Wheel" (drawn in a James Thuber-style and directed by Robert McKimson). This cartoon is somewhat stylized, but in a manner so it resembles the mid-to-late 1960s Pink Panther cartoons. Then again, many of the Warners' staff that worked on this cartoon went to work for DePatie-Freleng afterward, so it makes sense. This Mexican twist on the old Cinderella story is also rather amusing. Bill Lava's Mexican music works here instead of those crappy Speedy vs. Daffy cartoons he would later go on to score at DePatie-Freleng. The backgrounds look very UPA-ish and the thick-line drawings are pleasing to look at. I don't think Cartoon Network aired this very often when they were showing Looney Tunes. They might've been worried that it was politically incorrect and all that junk. However, this is one latter-day Looney Tunes short I highly recommend!