Fantasia 2000 | James Levine, Steve Martin | I wish they released it in Blu-ray

Fantasia 2000 | James Levine, Steve Martin | Fantastic Fantasia

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	Fantasia 2000 James Levine, Steve Martin Walt Disney Video, 2000 average customer review:based on 171 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

More ambitious in scope than any of its other animated films (before or to come), Disney's 1940 Fantasia was a dizzying, magical, and highly enjoyable marriage of classical music and animated images. Fantasia 2000 features some breathtaking animation and storytelling, and in a few spots soars to wonderful high points, but it still more often than not has the feel of walking in its predecessor's footsteps as opposed to creating its own path. A family of whales swimming and soaring to Respighi's The Pines of Rome is magical to watch, but ends all too soon; a forest sprite's dance of life, death, and rebirth to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring too clearly echoes the original Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria sequence. But when it's on target, Fantasia 2000 is glorious enough to make you giddy. Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a perfect narrative set to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Donald Duck's guest appearance as the assistant to Noah (of ark fame) set to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches is a welcome companion piece (though not an equal) to The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the one original Fantasia piece included here. The high point of Fantasia 2000, though, is a fantastic day-in-the-life sequence of 1930s New York City set to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and animated in the style of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld; it's a perfect melding of music, story, and animation. Let's hope future Fantasias (reportedly in the works) take a cue from the best of this compilation. The music is provided by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Levine, interspersed with negligible intros by Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Itzhak Perlman, James Earl Jones, and others. --Mark Englehart

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I wish they released it in Blu-ray

This is a must have if you like animated films, classical music, Beethoven, Respighi, Gershwin, Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Stravinsky, etc. This is perhaps the best way to introduce a kid to classical music and the composers performed here. I'm not a fan of Disney myself; however, this is the most noble project they have ever done in my opinion. I hope they do it once more, maybe when 3D is the standard TV format.

Fantastic Fantasia

The Disney animators have done an outstanding job connecting images to great works of music, bringing them to life for today's audiences. As a music teacher this is an excellent resource for stimulating interest in works by the great composers. Teachers and students at my school are mesmerized over and over again for 16 minutes as they take in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with its multiple storylines illustrated in the style of Al Hirschfeld. All of the selections are presented in unique and interesting fashion. There is something for everyone. It's an entertaining, inspiring and educational movie.

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Fantasia 2000 worth the cost.

Excellent way to spend an hour and a half. Wonderful toons, especiallly the Donald Duck toon set to Pomp and Circumstance. They are all worth watching..enjoy.

Fantasia vhs

The Fantasia 2000 tape arrived promptly in excellent condition. Our 2 granddaughters enjoy the music & characters. A nice addition to our original Fantasia tape.

Fantasia 2000 not exactly fantastic!

Once the start-up vibration noise subsides, I'm able to enjoy the movie! Also, it wouldn't work in either of my daughters' machines, but works in my very cheap one purchased at Target last fall. Almost seems like a pirated movie with all this going on. However, the transaction went well and I received the DVD in a timely manner. I now have both "Fantasias" and didn't have to wait for Disney to get around to getting them "out of the vault!"

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