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Make Mine Music (1946)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 3

This collection of musical-themed shorts doesn't reach the artistic heights of Fantasia, but it's well animated and mostly good fun.

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This collection of musical-themed shorts doesn't reach the artistic heights of Fantasia, but it's well animated and mostly good fun.

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In his first postwar animated feature, Walt Disney attempted to repeat the Fantasia formula, substituting "pop" music for the Classics. Make Mine Music consists of ten unrelated cartoon vignettes, each one featuring a popular recording artist. "A Rustic Ballad" is the story of the Martin-Coy hillbilly feud, narrated musically by the King's Men. "A Tone Poem" is an impressionistic interpretation of the song "Blue Bayou", sung by the Ken Darby chorus and rendered artistically by Disney's ace

Jun 6, 2000

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All Critics (9) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (3) | DVD (6)

Even Walt Disney's best films -- barring his wonderful slapstick -- have suffered from sticky taste; in this effort to be just plain folksy, that stickiness pretty thoroughly gums up the works.

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
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It entertains all the way.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Vivid, motley, ornamental and just-a-bit questionable in spots.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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An uneven, but generally well done and entertaining, potpourri of 10 cartoons set to disparate musical styles.

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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One of the saddest little orphans in the whole of the Disney animated features canon... though the film hits more than it misses over the course of its ten sequences.

November 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

Overall, it's hit and miss.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Disney animation-live action holds up well

October 23, 2004 Comment

A wonderful Disney offering featuring great animation.

October 5, 2002 Comment
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
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Audience Reviews for Make Mine Music

disneys 8th classic film, this is a collection of shorts, many featuring music and others featuring childrens stories with narration. willie the whale is the gem of the film, but the other shorts are very creative and the film has a suprise with a great jazz piece by benny goodman. the film is painfully slow, but it

January 26, 2007
sanjurosamurai
danny d

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Sort of like a poor man's Fantasia with popular music of the day instead of classical. It is missing the imagination and depth of Fantasia, or the fun of the Three Caballeros, and in the end its mostly boring with hits in Casey at the Bat and Peter and the Wolf. The biggest problem is that the popular music of the day

October 8, 2011
kenscheck
Kenny Scheck

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