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Fantasia 2000 (1999)

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 15

It provides an entertaining experience for adults and children alike.

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 8

It provides an entertaining experience for adults and children alike.

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Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia 2000 was meant to revitalize Walt Disney's goal of a constantly evolving film, with new segments replacing old ones with each re-release. Only The Sorcerer's Apprentice remains, with seven new shorts. Angular, abstracted butterfly-like shapes fly through the air in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5; computer-animated whales take flight in Respighi's Pines of Rome; Al Hirschfeld's

Nov 14, 2000

Buena Vista Pictures

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All Critics (82) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (16) | DVD (12)

The rest of these animated sequences depend on gimmickry, cuteness, or facile ideology.

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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It provides some fine artists the chance to stretch and frolic, even as it reminds today's audiences of animation's limitless borders.

September 7, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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As with the original Fantasia, the new film is a mixture of artistically respectable and mediocre moments, which for overall ambition and range, has no parallel in the world of contemporary animation.

March 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
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It's not that the images aren't pretty, or that great care hasn't gone into them -- it's that the sensibility behind them is so icky, limited in its conception of beauty to picture postcards and the sort of paintings you see in chain hotels.

August 8, 2001 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Whatever its flaws -- from kitschy cupids to racist centaurs -- at least the first Fantasia had a human touch. The sequel seems cold and mechanical by comparison.

March 21, 2001 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
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Sixty years after Walt Disney's animators first set cartoons to classical music, they've conjured up seven new sequences for Fantasia 2000. Judging from the often Mickey Mouse results, they may have been too hasty.

June 16, 2000 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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Overall, though, I didn't find it particularly satisfying

November 23, 2011 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

could be just the thing to help educate a young person about classical music

January 30, 2011 Full Review Source: ToxicUniverse.com | Comment
ToxicUniverse.com

Although magnificent and filled with imagination, Fantasia 2000 doesn't hold up as being particularly ground-breaking or innovative.

December 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Views | Comment

Delightful, but may scare more sensitive kids.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

A worthy successor to the original concept, allowing the next generation of animation talent to cut loose. [Blu-ray]

December 10, 2010 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment

The bonus features, or lack thereof, are a bummer, but Fantasia and especially its eager-to-please stepchild Fantasia 2000 have never looked better.

December 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

A lightweight affair... Despite some momentary flashes of brilliance, this is no successor to the great Fantasia.

December 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

Fantasia/2000 will no doubt become a Disney perennial, but that does not by definition make it a classic.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

Like its predecessor, Fantasia 2000 offers a plotless string of beautifully animated vignettes set to music; unlike its predecessor, it's a good deal shorter and far less tedious for it.

September 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

This new installment perhaps aims slightly lower than the original.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
Big Picture Big Sound

This new Fantasia corrects some of the flaws of the old movie, but generates some new flaws of its own.

February 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

This must be the most belated sequel the movies have produced.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

The IMAX presentation of this millennial sequel is a welcome addition to the family, though it seems to lack the heart of the original.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

A roller-coaster ride of energy, utilizing incredible animated imagery, elegant classical music and state-of-the-art technology.

May 14, 2003 Comment
Palo Alto Weekly

My only complaint is that it was over too soon.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | Comment
Film Quips Online

It is a reminder that, after all these years, memories of the first Fantasia can still conjure magic in the mind.

December 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | Comment
Sight and Sound
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Beautiful film

August 15, 2011
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Brad Wright

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Not as good as the original FANTASIA phenomenon.

July 22, 2011
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Alexander Diminiano

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