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I used to get letters from a donkey.
ForgetFrancisthe talking army mule (who was in seven Universal films.
Let me just repeat that: They made seven films about Francis.
), this years herd is positively Balthazar.
Balthazar is a donkey, and it is as simple as that.
All three donkeys in this falls slate of mule movies follow in Balthazars hoofprints toward jeopardies of escalating severity.
That such brutality is inflicted on an unassuming donkey takes on a particular symbolic bitterness.
Not a murderous cruise passenger in sight.
