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Walt & El Grupo
Directed by
Theodore Thomas
PG
2008
1h 46m
Documentary
,
Family
6.4
57%
44%
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The story of the 1941 Goodwill Tour to South America made by Walt Disney and his staff.
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Cast of Walt & El Grupo
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)
Diane Disney
Self
John Canemaker
Self
Blaine Gibson
Self
J.B. Kaufman
Self
Flávio Barroso
Self
Lydia Bodrero
Self
Harriet Burns
Self
Josefina Molina Chazarreta
Self
Juan Carlos González
Self
Janet Lansburgh
Self
Letícia Pinheiro
Self
Andres A. Chazarreta Ruiz
Self
Cindy Sears
Self
Jeanette Thomas
Self
Walt & El Grupo Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
While skimming over the troubled waters of impending war and ongoing labor unrest, it's both a vicarious vacation and a crash course in animation.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Hardcore Disney fans will appreciate how serious-minded and intimate this movie is, but for others, Walt & El Grupo might feel like an expensive vacation slide show, assembled by strangers.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Walt & El Grupo is the best kind of labor of love. A documentary made with affection and intelligence...
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A relentlessly upbeat vanity project destined for the Disney family archive.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The production values are first rate. But you will wait in vain to hear a good reason for this movie's existence.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
[Thomas] may need more distance from the subject -- Walt & El Grupo could shed about 20 minutes -- but there's no questioning his sincerity or his instinct for revealing anecdotes.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
While Walt & El Grupo could use trimming, it also is visually stunning.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
At a time when Hollywood doesn't remember last year, is obsessed with the bottom line and is run by men who often have no sense of history, Walt & El Grupo evokes a better time.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Chris Foran
You get a taste of what the Disney group went through and saw, and you see how that work translated into rough sketches and designs.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
A bland tourist souvenir, the equivalent of an authorized biography rather than an independent one.
Kansas City Star
Robert W. Butler
Above all else the film is a treasure trove of fantastic archival material, much of it never before shown.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a niche effort that has little to offer all but the most ardent of animation junkies.
Movie Metropolis
James Plath
This is the 'untold story.' And apparently there's not much more to tell.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A lively, well-edited documentary brimming with insight, warmth and humor while captivating audiences both young and old.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Whatever glamour theres to be found in this Yanks-below-the-border venture is imperfectly conveyed to the audience because of a scarcity of suitable archival material.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
This may be the first documentary that contains not a single American, living or dead, who is anything but merry of disposition. That cheer carries over to the on-the-spot gusto of el grupo's sketchbooks -- a more accurate tribute than the final cartoons.
Village Voice
Ernest Hardy
Walt is both humorous and moderately revealing about the backstage machinations of the Disney machine.
Movie Views
Ryan Cracknell
An intimate, albeit uneventful, story filled with flashy graphics but not a lot of substance.
MSN.com
Sean Axmaker
... less probing documentary than colorful press release for the paternal Disney...
Boxoffice Magazine
Cathleen Roundtree
Provides a framing device for the Disney creative process as well as the issue of the place of art in geo-politics.
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