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

Lee Eisenberg 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.

wile_E2005 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!

bbwvixen67 WARNING: My brief comments on this film may contain a spoiler, so please don't read if you don't want your curiosity to be ruined.I first watched this classic Warner Bros. short on the Nickelodeon children's network when it was a part of their daily "Looney Tunes" program and I instantly fell in love with it. After that first showing, I was hoping the network would show it again at a later date, as I was taping most of the Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes shorts for later viewing. They did show it again--and yes, I taped it. I watch "Senorella" along with the other shorts on tape every now and then, and it still makes me laugh every time I view it.This animated short starts off with two Mexican drunks in a bar who are only seen as figures in shadow over a visible sign for a play (or movie) called "Cinderella and the Glass Slipper", and one of them relates the "Senorella" story to the other--but with a few exceptions. Senorella is shown as a dirty, disheveled, thin girl; the wicked stepmother and stepsisters are gluttonous; there are bugs helping Senorella with the chores instead of mice; and instead of Prince Charming, there's a single but inept bullfighter named Don Miguel, whose wealthy father desperately wants to marry off.Don Miguel's dad arranges a ball in which all of the women of the village are invited, and like in the classic Cinderella tale, Senorella gets uninvited by her stepmother. Of course, the Fairy Godmother comes to her aid, and in a hilarious twist, she makes Senorella look like a gorgeous hooker--complete with glass huaraches! Senorella then goes to the ball, dances with the bullfighter, and runs out of the ball at the stroke of midnight; leaving one of her glass huaraches behind.After a nervewracking search, Don Miguel and his dad finally found Senorella in a muddy pig's trough the following day (she was put there by her stepmother to hide her away from them). He then placed the huarache on her foot and took her away from her wretched stepfamily to marry her. They ended up living happily ever after as "manuelo and wife" (as the narrator ended the tale before we see the drunks' shadowy figures one last time as the cartoon comes to a close).The good folks at Warners did a great job with this short, and although it's not a big side-splitter by any means, it is an enjoyable change of pace from the standard Bugs Bunny and Co. fare, which is what most animation buffs tend to remember and enjoy more over the years. I give this hilarious but forgotten piece of animation history ten stars.