Fantasia 2000

Angela Lansbury, Bette Midler, Itzhak Perlman

"Fantasia/2000" brings to fruition Walt Disney's dream of creating a "concert film" with a perpetually changing repertoire. Sixty years after the release of Disney's classic 1940 experiment in sight a...( read more  read more... )nd sound, a new generation of Disney animators and filmmakers offer an exciting showcase for today's audiences as they visually interpret classical compositions by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Respighi, Gershwin, Dukas, Saint-Saens, Elgar, and Stravinsky. This animated extravaganza features seven new selections and one returning favorite from the original classic. World renowned conductor James Levine takes up the baton and leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Like its pioneering predecessor, "Fantasia/2000" embraces all the latest technological tools and innovations to tell its stories and create breathtaking imagery.

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G, 1 hr. 14 min.

Directed by: James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi

Released: June 16, 2000

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DVD Released: November 14, 2000

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  • August 14, 2008
    sh... room?
  • April 20, 2008
    The sequel to the Classic Disney with Classical music. Less impressive, very concise and partly rehashed. Not that much presented, as promised, to the new millennium.
  • January 16, 2008
    Rips off from Mononoke Hime.
  • August 20, 2007
    One that deserves to be rewatched and enjoyed.
  • July 10, 2007
    Fantasia 2000 was more enjoyable to watch than the original. They were smart to make it shorter and snappier.

    Each piece was enjoyable. Some of the segments attempted to parallel some from the original.

    "Beethoven's 5th Symphony" was a flutter of colorful abstract shapes wh... ...( read more )
  • June 3, 2009
    I think it would have been nice if they had made all new ones, instead of remastering the sorcerers apprentice as one of the songs.

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March 22, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

As with the original Fantasia, the new film is a mixture of artistically respectable and mediocre moments, which for overall ambition and range, has no parallel in the world of contemporary animation. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Splendid entertainment. full review

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