Fantasia is a truly unique movie that combines beautiful music with interpretive animation. The movie's music is exquisite but one would expect no less form the Philadelphia Orchestra who, at the time, specialized in such classical works as preformed in this movie. The songs were written well but one would also expect this because they were written by musical geniuses such as Mozart and Bach and are some of their more popular works. There is no disputing these two things but what of Disney's interpretation of these classical pieces? The music selections were good because most are well known to all but on the other hand since people have probably heard these pieces before, they already have formulated their own pictures to go along with the music they might disagree with what Disney's thoughts.
Fantasia may have been technologically advanced at the time but it fails to come any where close to today's animated movies. You can tell the obvious difference in the color and movement of the animation. The color seems to
Shows animals, usually thought to be awkward like elephants, hippopotamuses, alligators, and ostriches, dancing ballet. A rather childish piece and older audiences will lose interest pretty quickly.
Disney had a very original idea and no one to date has ever done anything quite like it. This movie however, will not appeal to everyone because music is too objective and will not meet everyone's expectations. Younger audiences will find movie boring with the exception of a few parts because children need words and cannot grasp the music's relation to the movie. Many parts are childish, too "cartoon-like," and may turn some older viewers off. Disney had the right idea and Fantasia may have been successful back in the 50's but today's audiences are looking for something more and Fantasia fails to hit this one home.
Originally about the country side but Disney has transformed it into a colorful depiction of Greek mythology including such character as Pegasus, Unicorns, Dionysus, Satyrs, and centaurs. Some people m
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