Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 15
It provides an entertaining experience for adults and children alike.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 15 | 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
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Steve Martin
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Itzhak Perlman
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Quincy Jones
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Bette Midler
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James Earl Jones
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Raymond Joseph Teller
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Penn Jillette
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James Levine
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Angela Lansbury
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Leopold Stokowski
Conductor ("Sorcerer's ...
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The rest of these animated sequences depend on gimmickry, cuteness, or facile ideology.
It provides some fine artists the chance to stretch and frolic, even as it reminds today's audiences of animation's limitless borders.
This must be the most belated sequel the movies have produced.
Top CriticAs 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.
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.
Overall, though, I didn't find it particularly satisfying
could be just the thing to help educate a young person about classical music
Although magnificent and filled with imagination, Fantasia 2000 doesn't hold up as being particularly ground-breaking or innovative.
Delightful, but may scare more sensitive kids.
A worthy successor to the original concept, allowing the next generation of animation talent to cut loose. [Blu-ray]
The bonus features, or lack thereof, are a bummer, but Fantasia and especially its eager-to-please stepchild Fantasia 2000 have never looked better.
A lightweight affair... Despite some momentary flashes of brilliance, this is no successor to the great Fantasia.
Fantasia/2000 will no doubt become a Disney perennial, but that does not by definition make it a classic.
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 installment perhaps aims slightly lower than the original.
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.
My only complaint is that it was over too soon.
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"Fantasia 2000" is indeed a full movie-going experience with beautifully animated vignettes, classic but recognizable music, and entertaining if cheap celebrity appearances (instead of the plodding prologue of its predecessor). Watching it again recently though did provoke some criticism in me: the combination of sound and visual is sometimes too on-the-nose. The story is too clear; each audio beat is visually punctuated. There is very little room for abstract interpretation.