The rest of these animated sequences depend on gimmickry, cuteness, or facile ideology.
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:63
Rotten:14
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 75 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: Following in the footsteps of the 1940 Disney classic, FANTASIA 2000 features seven animated short films set to classical compositions, along with the original version of "The Sorcerer's... Following in the footsteps of the 1940 Disney classic, FANTASIA 2000 features seven animated short films set to classical compositions, along with the original version of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," starring Mickey Mouse. (This 2000 version also includes hosts such as Steve Martin, Quincy Jones, and Bette Midler introducing each segment.) The film opens with abstract butterfly-like creatures of light and darkness fluttering about to Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" but quickly moves to the second sequence, featuring an adventurous baby whale and its elders floating along to "The Pines of Rome." Next is the "Rhapsody In Blue" segment, a tribute to 1930s New York City, based on the line drawings of illustrator Al Hirschfeld. The fourth piece is Hans Christian Andersen's tale of "The Steadfast Soldier" set to "Piano Concerto No. 2," followed by "The Carnival of Animals" which stars a yo-yo-wielding pink flamingo. The next two segments feature classic Disney characters; first, Mickey Mouse in the original version of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," then Donald Duck in a retelling of the Noah's Ark story set to "Pomp and Circumstance." Finally, "The Firebird" closes out the film, with a sweeping woodland story of nature's death and rebirth. With its brilliant animation, well-paced stories, and immediately engaging music, FANTASIA 2000 easily matches the wondrous spectacle of the original. [More]
Starring: Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Starring: Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Director: James Algar, Hendel Butoy, Pixote Hunt, Gaetan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Eric Goldberg, Francis Glebas
Director: James Algar, Hendel Butoy, Pixote Hunt, Gaetan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Eric Goldberg, Francis Glebas
Producer: Donald W. Ernst
Composer: Paul Dukas, Edward Elgar, George Gershwin, Ottorino Respighi, Camille Saint-Saens, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven
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Reviews for Fantasia 2000
Fantasia/2000 will no doubt become a Disney perennial, but that does not by definition make it a classic.
It provides some fine artists the chance to stretch and frolic, even as it reminds today's audiences of animation's limitless borders.
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.
This new Fantasia corrects some of the flaws of the old movie, but generates some new flaws of its own.
The IMAX presentation of this millennial sequel is a welcome addition to the family, though it seems to lack the heart of the original.
A roller-coaster ride of energy, utilizing incredible animated imagery, elegant classical music and state-of-the-art technology.
Will no doubt become a Disney perennial, but that does not by definition make it a classic.
It is a reminder that, after all these years, memories of the first Fantasia can still conjure magic in the mind.
This stuffy sequel features seven new 'movements' and 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,' the buzz clip from the 1940 original.
In Fantasia 2000 a simple spell is rediscovered: elegant storytelling, masterful animation and timeless music make movie magic.
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.
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.
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