Three versions of "Spanish Buzz"

We went to see Toy Story 3 today, and cried at the end, along with the rest of the world.
*SPOILERS* Don't read this if you haven't seen the movie and don't want to know what happens.

One of our favorite parts is when the gang tries to undo the Buzz Lightyear reset and ends up switching him to "Spanish mode." This little special feature about "Spanish Buzz" shows how the animators did the Spanish dance sequence at the very end, using Cheryl Burke and Tony Dovolani's choreography of a ballroom paso doble (to a rhythm that actually in Spain would be called a "rumba," not to be confused with the Cuban rumba or ballroom rumba). The song is performed by the Gypsy Kings and is the already existing Spanish translation of "You'll Have a Friend in Me." They did a superb job of rendering the movement of the dancers, and the body language of Buzz when he is in "Spanish mode" is spot on.


My daughter had already seen the movie in Spain, where everything is dubbed. I asked her how Pixar handled the switch to Spanish mode if all the characters were already dubbed into Spanish? She said they made his sound like a typical Andalusian.

I found this great little video (by YouTuber "vagoperesozo" from Argentina) that shows all three versions of this scene. In the U.S. English version, Buzz is supposed to be acting like a Spaniard (flamenco style poses, etc,) and he is voiced as speaking in a perfectly Castillian Spanish, with the same intonation as as all the dubbers of Spanish movies in Spain ("rrrounnnd tooooones" as they say in "Singing in the Rain"). In the Latin American version, in which all the characters speak Latin American accented Spanish, Buzz switches to an exaggeratedly caricatured and inconsistent "Spanish" accent (what Spaniards sound like to Latin Americans), sort of like Dick Van Dyke trying to do a Cockney accent in Mary Poppins. Finally, in the dubbed version as shown in Spain, the one my daughter saw, all the characters speak in a Castillian Spanish accent and when Buzz is reset, he is voiced by a REAL Andalusian,

As one commenter quotes him: "Bitacora Espasiá... Me dehpertao del hiperzueño."