Fantasia 2000 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : James Levine
  • Actor : Steve Martin
  • Actor : Loulie Jean Norman
  • Actor : Charlie Parlato
  • Actor : Thurl Ravenscroft
  • Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : James Levine
  • Creator : Steve Martin
  • Director : Charles A. Nichols
  • Director : Don Hahn
  • Director : Eric Goldberg
  • Director : Francis Glebas
  • Director : Gaëtan Brizzi
  • EAN : 0717951008374
  • Format : Animated
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : Dolby
  • Format : DTS Surround Sound
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : NTSC
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Label : Walt Disney Video
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Original Language: French
  • Manufacturer : Walt Disney Video
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.50 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 5.30 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Picture Format : IMAX
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Walt Disney Video
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2000-11-14
  • SKU : 71795100837U
  • Studio : Walt Disney Video
  • UPC : 717951008374

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 Fantasia 2000, originally made for the IMAX large-screen format, features some breathtaking animation and storytelling, and in a few spots soars to wonderful high points, but it still more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 the 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 style. 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

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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