Fantasia
Fantasia
G | 13 November 1940 (USA)
Fantasia Trailers

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

Reviews
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
aghauptman I think nearly everyone is guilty of forgetting to include this under the umbrella of a Disney film when we think of that universe. Aside from the fact that it is animated it doesn't have many similarities to the rest of the Disney cinematic universe. I love this film. It is so artistic and beautiful. I think my least favorite segment is the segment that is the most Disney - the sorcerer's apprentice, with Micky. I could leave it out of the film and still be fine with it. As a kid we would always stop the movie before the quite scary and eerie Night on Bald Mountain segment. It was too much for us as kids, but now I can fully appreciate it. This movie is beautiful to look at and equally beautiful to listen to. Such a sad, dying art of hand drawing an animated feature... to think that hands drew and colored every instant of that movie is just amazing. And the artistry shows.
patboldt Fantasia is the greatest thing that Disney ever made, there I said it. We all praise Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, but for 2D animated films, Disney is most creative with Fantasia. It's wonderfully brilliant because if you think about it, it's one of the first AMVs to ever be made. It sets classical music to animation and manages to make wonderfully brilliant imagery. But its more than that, the music has three forms in Fantasia 1.) Music that tells a definite story, 2.) Music that paints definite pictures, and 3.) music that exists simply for its own sake. Fantasia is composed of eight orchestral pieces which I will list below. 1.) Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach 2.) Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 3.) The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas4.) Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky 5.) The Pastoral Symphony by Ludwig Van Beethoven 6.) Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli 7.) Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky 8.) Ave Maria by Franz Schubert One can love Fantasia purely because of the brilliant music but it's the beautiful imagery that really makes Fantasia stand out. So much of the life experience can be seen in these orchestrations because of how fantastically wonderful and yet mysterious it seems. Walt Disney really created something that was breath-taking in that he made something that added beauty to the life experience. Disney is known for being great at adapting stories: taking a story that we already know and adding a new take on it. The illusion is that Disney is creating new stories, which just isn't the case most of the time. However, with that said, Fantasia is something that is completely original because they're adding visuals to musical compositions. You can't adapt that, it has to be created and Disney really goes above and beyond with it. Fantasia is beauty incarnate, there is no better way to describe it. Watching Fantasia is a truly indescribable experience. It's wonder, it's joy, it's sadness, it's mystery, it's fear, but most of all it's magic, and it remains my favorite Disney piece. Fantasia truly is magnificent and will be remembered for all time.
d-touponse Fantasia is one of the most popular, amazing, and legendary animations. This is what started Micky Mouse's career. One of Disney's boldest creations/experiments to date to say the least. Its a combination of beautiful classical pieces of music along with unique and amazing animations starting with Mickey waking up from a dream. "Disney decided to include the short in a feature-length film with other segments set to classical pieces. The soundtrack was recorded using multiple audio channels and reproduced with Fantasound, a pioneering sound reproduction system that made Fantasia the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound."
gea-79784 I thoroughly enjoyed Fantasia. I didn't know what i was getting myself into when i watched it, but I'm happy did. Fantasia is just such an exciting and creative idea, taking pieces of classic music and use that music to animate a film that goes along with the music perfectly. My favorite of the bunch was the segment that went through evolution on earth up to the extinction of the dinosaurs. It was just so cool how they did it and the music is amazing performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. The one segment about Mickey Mouse being an apprentice to a sorcerer is just an iconic part of Disney. I still have mickeys wizard hat from Disney i got when vacationing as a kid. Fantasia is a masterpiece that i enjoyed from beginning to end.