
Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. "The Rite of Spring" tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the death of the dinosaurs. "Dance of the Hours" is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" set the forces of... (Full plot summary below)
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Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. "The Rite of Spring" tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the death of the dinosaurs. "Dance of the Hours" is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day.
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| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarEnvisioned as a musical symphony come to life, Fantasia is a bizarre, almost trippy experience rich with hypnotic visuals, dazzling animation and beautiful music. |
| The TelegraphSameer RahimThis is a bold work that seeks to educate its young audience about classical music. But it is also playful and delightfully imaginative. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThroughout Fantasia, Disney pushes the edges of the envelope. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherFantasia is simply terrific—as terrific as anything that has ever happened on a screen. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellA beautiful blend of animation and music. |
| Movie TalkJason BestGive me the ostriches in ballet shoes and the hippos in tutus ... over the cute fauns and unicorns frolicking in a pastel landscape ... any day. |
| Los Angeles TimesEdwin SchallertThe most ambitious animated feature ever to come out of the Disney studios, Fantasia integrates famous works of classical music with wildly uneven but extraordinarily imaginative visuals that run the gamut from dancing hippos to the purely abstract. It's like a feature-length compilation of elaborate Silly Symphonies |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksFantasia (1941), a Disney animated feature-length "concert" film milestone, is an experimental film integrating eight magnificent classical musical |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonIt’s unquestionably among Disney’s masterpieces. |
| The GuardianDerek MalcolmFantasia is mashed potatoes and gravy but there's more than a hint of beluga there too. |