I Don't get It.......

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I'm an actual person who likes it. Why do I like it? The music is beautiful, the animations that go with it are in turns interesting and fun and tell the stories of the music in different ways (though I have to admit that I don't care for the hippos and Crocs doing "Dance of the hours") and it's entertaining, to me (again, except for the hippos, always fast forward through that part, myself).

I can understand your thinking. It is meant to be 'an experience'. That's how Disney intended it to be taken. It's supposed to be like going to the Symphony but instead of coming up with the pictures in your head yourself, the animators show their version of what they think the music is saying to you.




Morgan Grimes: "I know Kung Fu."

Do you not even like The Sorcerer's Apprentice? That's the closest thing in the film to a conventional story, and it's more accessible than the other segments. The rest isn't traditional movie-making, where there's a clear-cut storyline to follow; it's more an attempt at a visualization of popular classical pieces, meant to be taken in the same way we take in a piece of music.

You just don't like artsy fils, neither do I. I haven't seen this, so I don't know if I'd like it. To me it seems almost as a dream film seeing as it was done in the 40's.

I for one do not like the movie at all. This is mostly for the music's sake – it is so heavily disfigured by cuts, reorganization and re-orchestration, that everything you might love it for is thrown completely out of the window.

The sugary optics are abominable at best. And then, the kind of "knowledge" or "classical education" bits thrown in at random to make grown-up audiences a bit more comfortable are goofy throughout.

Some things are interesting at least – for example the interpretation of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in which – other than in the Goethe (no, not 2000 years old) original – the broomstick, when attacked, doesn't merely double but multiply into a horrible fascist army, shown in Leni-Riefenstahl-like lighting.

But then, the phony Greek scenery and fauna in the Beethoven bit (in which one just shudders at the tempi and the violent cuts applied to a perfect piece of music) isn't just pukingly infantile but most stupidly wrong, and sexistic in a way that had been abandoned even by major Hollywood filmmakers by the 1930ies. E. g. the "funny", frock-hunting old drunkard in the bacchanal scene is introduced as Bacchus himself. In antique iconology, however, the Roman god of wine is depicted as being young, strong, and handsome even at bacchanals, while the more ridiculous aspects of drinking are embodied in Silen, an old man who can't hold his drink – who is actually shown here, Bacchus being left out entirely.

Oh yes, and nipples are only for witches. "Centaurettes" don't have them. They're no mammals, apparently (but witches are?!).

It's not that I am high-brow all the time. I do like Star Trek IV, The Incredibles, even Avatar. But this is much effort for a really crappy result.

Don't feel bad OP, I personally HATE Citizen Kane which is supposed to be "the best movie" of all time (I've never met a flesh and blood human that enjoyed it, just critics.
My favorite part of Fantasia is the Pastoral Symphony . It's just so beautiful. And the arab dance. I think I had a crush on the shy fish as a child.

...Don't look now, but I think the monotremes are out to get me...

I love classical music (although I didn't know any of the pieces in this film well enough to notice the edits)... but I'd somehow never seen Fantasia until tonight. To my complete surprise, I HATED this movie. Other than the Sorcerer's Apprentice (the only piece that isn't a complete snooze-fest) I thought this film ruined a handful of perfectly good tunes. I KNOW the music is great on its own; maybe the cartoons would be good with their OWN music. All I know is they did NOT go well together.

I have an insanely short attention span, but there's few things I love more than getting rid of all distractions and listening to one of the great composers: my favorites are Schubert, Shostakovich, and Mozart. The music does so well on its own, I really don't need some retarded, unimaginative cartoons to watch while listening to it. (I consider it unimaginative because it so rarely goes outside of my expectations. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, again, is the exception.)

I've never been a fan of impressionism in film. I like to be entertained, or made to think. This style does neither. I'm not sure WHAT it does. Nothing for me!


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Its okay if you don't like it. Everyone has there own opinions. And in my opinion this is one of my favorite movies ever. I always loved it and I remember when I was little I used to cry at the end because I was so sad it was over.