YMMV / Saludos Amigos

• Awesome Art: The opening of "Aquarela do Brasil" is a gorgeous piece of animation in which a painting of the Brazilian landscape comes to life and morphs into various birds and flowers, all while the titular song plays in the background.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Together with Panchito of The Three Caballeros, José has become a very iconic character among some crowds (because the general public doesn't really know about these movies).
• Fridge Brilliance: When José introduces himself to Donald and hands him his card, Donald appears to have a hard time reading it. That would be because the card is written in cursive, which Americans (like Donald) are not very familiar with.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While José appeared in a few Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in the states before becoming mostly forgotten about, he got his own (and currently ongoing) comic book series over in Brazil (where his given name is shortened to "Zé", which is the most common diminutive form of "José"). He's also a really popular character in comics of the Dutch Donald Duck magazine.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • José's first meeting with Donald is a huge heartwarming moment. They've just politely traded cards, and José, upon seeing that he's talking to "Pato Donald," reacts with utter glee. When Donald goes in for a handshake, José glomps him in an embrace, welcomes him to Brazil, then begins rattling off a list of places he wants to show Donald. Then he does.
  • Donald never gets angry at José despite the latter's overwhelming enthusiasm. Given Donald's usual Hair-Trigger Temper, one could expect him to have little patience for the parrot's antics, but even though he does appear to get slightly annoyed at some points, it never lasts long and he ultimately keeps a cheerful attitude, genuinely enjoying José's friendship and their trip to Brazil.
• Memetic Mutation: An out of context screenshot from the Aquarela do Brasil segment has gained popularity on the Internet as an image representing...something else.
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: José is heavily popular in Brazil, even rivaling with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in popularity among the Brazilian fans. He has been featured prominently in the local Disney comics since the 1950s, and has his own comic book since 1961, with stories entirely made by Brazilian Disney artists. Interestingly, as the years passed, some of the Brazilian authors actually made him a little less stereotypical by giving him new outfits, more consistent with the weather and contemporary fashion in Brazil — let's not forget his original clothes reflect the style of Rio in the 1940s — and introducing new characters, such as his many friends from the neighborhood and his cousins from different parts of Brazil, thus giving him a wider range of possibilities for the stories and better opportunities to exploit lesser-known aspects of the Brazilian culture.

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