THS IS NOT A KIDS MOVIE - Fantasia (1941) Discussion

[–] Eightcrayondon 18 years ago

As as small child when I first saw this film I was hard-pressed to find a plot. No child knows that this is an interpretation of classical music.

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[–] clive-ihd 18 years ago

I think anyone who says Fantasia is a children's film hasn't seen it. It's definitely an adult's film.

Someone said it's a children's film because it has a U certificate. But 2001 has a U certificate.

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[–] ebailey140 18 years ago

It's not a "kid's movie", but a General Audiences movie. There's a difference. That's something I've always liked about Disney's animated features. They really are family films, something adults can enjoy as much as kids. They're suitable for the kids to watch, very good for kids to watch, but adults get something out of them, too.

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[–] Blackjack254 18 years ago

I saw it when I was eight and loved it.

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” Sergei Rachmaninov

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[–] ButterscotchCrumpetpatch 18 years ago

Not a kid's movie?

I think it's a movie for any age really. I loved it when I was 4 years old, and 16 years later I still love it. It attributed to my appreciation for classical music too. I got my dad to rent to out for me many times when I was very young, but unfortunately I haven't ssen it for years now. The clerk at the video shop obviously thought it wasn't for kids either, as (probably the 3rd time) we rented it out he said to my dad that it wasn't really a typical cartoon, some parents had complained(idiots!). My dad just said that he knew, I'd seen it before and loved it, and the clerk just looked at this 4 year old girl in bewilderment lol.

The Chernabog scene never scared me, and my favourite sequence at the time was the one with the dinosaurs ( I loved dinosaurs when I was a kid lol).

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[–] MovieGuy22 18 years ago

I don't know if it was ever marketed as a kid's movie. It's a music lovers movie, maybe.

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[–] Max_Power_CDXX 18 years ago

scary? the chernabog? or anything in this film for that matter? come on you pussies, this film may not have be 'for' children when it was made but its certainly something they can watch. I cant remember when i first watched this but i would have been very young because my parents already had tht tape, i cannot once remember thinking twice about that chernabog dude. if your gonna say the chernabog is scary then what about th t'rex killing that stegosaurus (i think thts th one it killed) thats move scary/violent.

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[–] Max_Power_CDXX 18 years ago

wasnt talking to you, was talking to the perons who said it was scary etc

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[–] bearfan88-1 18 years ago

guys dont listen to this kid he a racist and a Bush supporter, so u know he dosent know half the things what he is saying.

i have proof

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/board/thread/61406378?d=62816666#62816666

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[–] brazil_chica 18 years ago

Please people...really unnecessary to act like squabbling brats here, calling each other names. Everybody has a right to their own opinion and interpretation.

As for me, this was the first movie I ever own, and I've watched it ever since I was 3 (now 18). Granted, I did skip through the "Night on Bald Mountain" and dinossaur parts most times (Spielberg managed to put me off both dinossaurs and aliens throughout most of my childhood - I was very easily scared LOL!). I remember dancing along to it all the time. And neither did the lack of plot ever bother me - I just made up my own plot as I went along.

Anyways, it's a bit difficult to classify kids movies, esp. nowadays, what with kids watching much worse on after-school specials. This film is just for anyone who enjoys it, in my opinion, no particular age-group...

Hehe...I feel like watching it again now...

...nitwit...oddment...blubber...tweak...

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[–] Acker 18 years ago

Zil!!!!!!

You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket

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[–] Blackjack254 18 years ago

several Bare-brested Harpies, complete with nipples fly directly into the "Camera" for one,
and there's one scene where fire takes the form of nude women dancing before they are changed into pig-like demons.

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” Sergei Rachmaninov

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[–] Blackjack254 18 years ago

Half-Woman, half flying beast.

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” Sergei Rachmaninov

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[–] xix_azn_luv_xix 18 years ago

I watche it since I was like 5!

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[–] moviedude-72 18 years ago

It is a family film. It was initially intended as one, anyway. What genre it perceived as today does not really matter (some people say its a great 'drug' movie, others call a surrealist journey, a horror film, a thriller) because it was made as a family film.

R.I.P. River Phoenix

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[–] DeceptiveFox 18 years ago

I've yet to witness a child sit through this movie in it's entirety...I never used to finish it.

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[–] moviedude-72 18 years ago

I know, it use to send me of to sleep when I was younger, but I still love it.

R.I.P. River Phoenix

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[–] MetFanMac 17 years ago

I did. So did my 4 siblings.

Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves.

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[–] runar-4 18 years ago

Using conventional Cyrillic/Roman Russian/English transliteration, the demon's name is "Tchernobog". I didn't like the finale. Not only did Tchernobog wimp out, the animation for the "Ave Maria" segment makes South Park look lifelike.

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[–] Max_Power_CDXX 18 years ago

I used to watch it the whole was through, may not have been for children but people shouldnt not put it on for their children. I know I'm gonna play it when my kids little (when ever that may be), and buy all the oldschool programs like original turtles, sonic, bucky o'hare, sharky and george, heman instead of whatever crap they'll make for kids in the future.

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[–] oldguybc2 17 years ago

Remember watching this in a theater when I was two years old and being TERRIFIED! When those brooms and buckets started their big brouhaha the sound was turned up to roughly the volume of a jet engine at close quarters and the video did nothing to calm all the frightening aspects... no rating for movies back in 1940. This frightening event has stayed with me over the years.

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[–] shainajosh 17 years ago

My conclusion is that though it's not for a singular age group, it's fine for a kids movie. If nothing else it places all fans in all age groups on the same plane--in awe.

I saw this when I was young along with my brother and both of us loved it(the dinosaur part was scarier than the Chernobog in my opinion). Despite some of the elements that I'm like "sheesh!" for later, tis one of the best and creative films of all time and I would certainly share it with my kids one day.

sidenote: forgive me for any incoherence...insomniac and whatnot.

Familiarity breeds contempt--and children - M.Twain

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