Fantasia 2000 (2000)
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Critic Reviews for Fantasia 2000
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Delightful, but may scare more sensitive kids.
The rest of these animated sequences depend on gimmickry, cuteness, or facile ideology.
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.
This must be the most belated sequel the movies have produced.
It is a reminder that, after all these years, memories of the first Fantasia can still conjure magic in the mind.
Audience Reviews for Fantasia 2000
Pt. 2 to the original, wherein the animators at Disney take popular classical music as a basis for visual storytelling. Like the original, some parts shine while others are simply eye-catching. Now that Pixar has shown the viability of computer animation one wishes for an update to this idea (for the idea IS sound despite being fragmented), perhaps with one story uniting different pieces of music/different parts of the story (my suggestion: La Strada); but that'd be a monumental undertaking. For the time being this'll hold us over okay.
Super Reviewer
My high school band had intimate relationships with several of the songs in this second incarnation of Disney's art and music fantasy. The slow yet strident "Pines of Rome" ended many an unconventional marching band show; the ubiquitous "Rhapsody in Blue" featured our prodigies in clarinet and piano; the bombastic and rhythm-mad "Firebird Suite" capped off my senior year concert; and "Pomp and Circumstance" (more widely known as "The Graduation Song") was played in its entirety by the junior band during commencement ceremonies. "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.
Super Reviewer
Beautiful film
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Fantasia 2000 Quotes
| Narrator: | Greetings and be welcome to Fantasia 2000. |