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The best kind of labor of love. A documentary made with affection and intelligence, it looks at a brief episode in the life of a cultural icon and uses it to illuminate what turns out to be a telling moment in time and in the process shed some light on the man himself.
75
While Walt & El Grupo could use trimming, it also is visually stunning.
75
This was an era when international travel was not yet common, and in 16mm home movies from the trip, you can see the excitement as 1940s cities burst into gaudy state welcomes for the creator of El Raton Mickey.
75
While Walt and El Grupo is less than a penetrating analysis, it's more than a Mickey Mouse advertisement.
75
The result: No other studio could produce historical treasure like this from its vaults.
70
There's a trove of movie lore in this absorbing documentary.
67
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.
50
Both a gargantuan, multi-family home movie and a slight, if entertaining, curio that'll be of most interest to hardcore Disney aficionados.
50
What’s really missing here is a story of artistic regeneration: by the time we encounter a dazzling excerpt from the studio’s post-trip film, “Aquarela do Brasil,” we are only reminded of what might have been.
50
A disappointingly superficial treatment of a fascinating historical incident.
