Fantasia 2000 (Full Screen)

I highly reccommend this movie to everyone, except maybe people who consider Scooby-Doo to be the ultimate animatoin masterpiece.


One of my favourites of all time!!   March 30, 2004
Victor G. Leon (San Diego, CA United States)
This is a great movie..but maybe that is only becuase I love classical music. Although, the music was changed(butchered) to met the needs of time, the compilement of the music was fantastic. Yes, I watched the original Fantasia when I was little and thought it was great, but that doesn't mean that we must compare the original to this one! Yes, the segments were shorter, but jeez, come on, some of those segments in the original Fantasia were a bit too long and easily forgetful...i.e. Stravinsky "rite of spring" and Beethovens "Pastoral symphony." These segments are great ways for children to see something fun,discover the beauty of classical music, and even have a tender parent-child conversation about. This movie was made for the children of today(not adults), not of yesteryear, so stop griping about it.
Personally my favourite segment is The Stedfast Tin Solider with Shostakovich's Piano Concerto 2, followed by Daisy and Donalds segment with Elgars Pomp and Circumstance..but they were all great!! As a person learning of the classical music genre, this film has helped me have points to jump off and do research and find music!


Stravinsky's Firebird suite played like Wagner's Parsifal?   February 8, 2004
Josh Rappaport (Harrisburg PA, 17110)
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Okay! Most of this film is outstanding. I liked the Pines of Rome sequence, the Steadfast Tin Soldier, and the Pomp and Circumstance as well as the others except for the Firebird. There are some things for me to complain about during that sequence. First of all, in my own opinion, Disney has been more incorrigible than he was with any other film of his. That Firebird moviette sounds like what Richard Wagner did when writing his Parsifal: Terrifying music where it does not belong, and contrasting it after so lovely a melody. All of the faster music, if very little, is terrifying for no good reason and places a terrifying character in a place where it does not belong. I think that Disney has hurt my feelings here. This part is more for fans of Wagner's Parsifal, which, also, has a hurtful mood.As I said, there's terrifying music even in the festive sections there too. Toward the end, instead of normal rejoicing, instead, I hear a small reprise of that terrifying Firebird Dance which goes right into a really strange kind of rejoicing, the kind when the music is so slow that it sounds more like romance. This is not a fight for triumph, this is just rejoicing in the mode of Wagner. Now I know why Wagner hated jews. He probably wanted to make rejoicing slower than what it normally is: bustle and jollity, but instead I get rejoicing in love song mode. On any of the other pieces on this video, Disney and Levine made more sense, but not here. Disney took Stravinsky like someone who hated jews and took bustle, jollity, and festivities in a slow tempo. That's not the Stravinsky I know. I hate to be rude, but next time James Levine conducts Stravinsky's Firebird suite, he should make the final section of the Finale sound faster than it was here. The tempo here should've sounded more like Claudio Abbado, Paavo Jarvi, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, or even Stravinsky himself. They all respect Stravinsky more than do Walt Disney and James Levine. A fast tempo is exactly what Stravinsky's Firebird Suite needs for the last section of the finale.