TheLittleSongbird 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

slymusic Written by John Dunn and featuring a very good south-of-the-border music score by Bill Lava, "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is a fairly adequate Warner Bros. cartoon that spoofs the famous story of Cinderella. Two silhouetted Mexicans (voiced by Mel Blanc and Tom Holland) discuss the story of poor Senorella as we segue into flashbacks of her amazing transformation from rags to riches. The animation is rather stiff, but, as we shall see, this stiffness is an integral part of the humor of this cartoon.My favorite moments from "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" include the following. Senorella is quite amusing as she shakes her hips to a growling trumpet accompaniment. Also funny is a meek little chihuahua as it suddenly growls in Senorella's face. After a bull rams Don Miguel into a wall, Miguel punches the bull away from him! But the funniest moment of all involves Don Miguel's son Jose dancing with Senorella; the stiff animation, combined with the bland facial expressions of the couple, are what make me laugh at this sequence."Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is not the Warner Bros. animation department's finest hour, but it doesn't matter; I very much enjoy this cartoon and what it has to offer. One thing that arouses my curiosity, though: I wonder if audiences from the mid-1960s were ready to see tattoos on women's arms in animated cartoons. Considering that the sixties were a strange time frame, probably so.

Robert Reynolds This short was the last short produced by the Warner Brothers animation department. The studio shut down the animation department, only to farm out the production of cartoons to the Depatie-Freleng Studio, which also produced the Pink Panther shorts. I'm going to talk a bit about the short, so there will be mild spoilers below: Though there really isn't anything particularly exceptional about this short, I noticed some things I thought were at least somewhat interesting about it when I saw it today for the first time. For one thing, it had a lot of visual similarities to the shorts produced by Depatie-Freleng-the character design of Senorella, for example, is very similar to female characters in a couple of later Pink Panther shorts. The backgrounds are also very much like the later backgrounds, which I suppose is hardly surprising, given that a number of the people who worked on this short went on to work for Depatie-Freleng.As for the short itself, it's a largely by-the-numbers version of Cinderella, with the nominal twist of it being populated with Hispanic characters. Apart from the narrator's accent and pronunciation, the slant given this short is generally benign and marginal. The short's greatest deficit is that it really isn't terribly funny and there isn't enough variation in the plot to make up for the lack of decent jokes. It's rather predictable to anyone who knows the story of Cinderella.Still, it is worth seeing once and is currently in print on Disc 2 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 5. Recommended for Looney Tunes completest.

ccthemovieman-1 A Mexican version of the famous "Cinderella And The Glass Slipper" story? Yup, that's what you get here in this modern-day Looney Tunes cartoon. I say "modern day" because I don't recall seeing any cartoons in the LT Golden Collection DVDs made as late as 1964. I have seen all the collections but Volume Four, and can't recall any of the '60s. The opening graphics are so different than the '40s and '50s it was almost a shock to see. The artwork was good, though: very colorful and done well in a new style for Looney Tunes.The story would probably be censored by Politically-Correct Police of today as it uses names for Mexicans such as "Sarsaparilla, Tabasco," and other phrases; anything that sounds Spanish and the accents are a bit exaggerated. (I'm not on PC side unless it is overtly racist or mean-spirited to any group.) This has a nice side; it's not trying to demean Hispanics but by today's standards, it comes across as a bit condescending in spots. Not every Mexican is a bullfighter, or wears a sombrero everywhere, or can't spell or brutalizes the English language, etc.Anyway, the humor is "fair," nothing super but not bad. I liked the colorful and modern artwork, and the faces and "latest dresses from Madrid" of the women, were a lot of fun to watch. This was a hoot for the eyes, even if the jokes were a little too corny to laugh.