Dinah Shore, Jerry Colonna, Nelson Eddy

Sometimes referred to as "the Poor Man's Fantasia," Make Mine Music (1946) was the first of the "package features" Walt Disney released after World War II. Instead of Bach and Beeth...( read more  read more... )oven, the artists illustrated segments set to popular music by Benny Goodman, Dinah Shore, and the Andrews Sisters. Originally set to Debussy's "Claire de Lune," "Blue Bayou" remains an atmospheric evocation of the Everglades. "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" is a charming fantasy about a cetacean with an extraordinary voice. "Peter and the Wolf," based on the Prokofiev score, offers brightly colored designs, but the narration by Sterling Holloway seems superfluous. "All the Cats Join In" is an upbeat evocation of the Bobby Sox era, but "Casey at the Bat" and "Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet" feel self-conscious and unfunny.

"Two Silhouettes" combines rotoscoped images of Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo stars Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine with kitsch cupids, sparkles, and hearts. "The Martins and the Coys," a spoof of a hillbilly feud, has been excised in a bow to modern taste. The supplemental material includes The Band Concert, the first color Mickey Mouse short and one of the character's finest performances, and Music Land, a quirky Silly Symphony about clashing musical styles. --Charles Solomon

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DVD Release Date: June 6, 2000

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  • December 30, 2007
    disneys 8th classic film, this is a collection of shorts, many featuring music and others featuring childrens stories with narration. willie the whale is the gem of the film, but the other shorts are very creative and the film has a suprise with a great jazz piece by benny goodm...( read more)an. the film is painfully slow, but it was made more for the expression of creativity than for the entertainment value. good picture.
  • November 29, 2009
    Great Disney cartoon. Peter and the Wolf is my favorite part.
  • November 22, 2009
    Make Mine Music is a wonderful Disney full length animated film full of music paired with imaginative stories, which include...

    Casey and the Bat, a story about a perfect hitter, who at the big game, misses his chance to impress; Peter and the Wolf, the classic story done entire...( read more)ly to music, along with narration by Sterling Holloway (known to many as the Cheshire Cat and Winnie the Pooh); and The Whale that Wanted To Sing at the Met, a story of an operatic whale who wants to sing at a theatre.

    Special features include three shorts, one of which is The Band Concert, fitting with the whole theme of the movie, as one of Disney's earlier shorts, starring Mickey, Goofy, Donald, and others, with Mickey as a conductor with music of William Tell Overture.
  • July 29, 2009
    i was thinking about how to describe this, but flixster helped take that burden off my hands. the flixster synopsis this movie is sometimes referred to as "the Poor Man's Fantasia." that's incredibly accurate. it's got lighter, more child-friendly animated shorts, and doesn't foc...( read more)us as heavily on classical music. Other than that, it's the same sort of gist. Generally, an entertaining hour to spend.
  • February 3, 2009
    Nice variety of shorts
  • October 5, 2008
    Very well done and in the vain of Fantasia. The animation feels very smooth and the colors and various animation styles work together nicely matching the current music style.
  • July 27, 2008
    The mid 1940's were a turbulent year for the Disney Studios; since SNOW WHITE, their subsequent productions, PINOCCHIO, FANTASIA, and BAMBI all failed financially; the fact that World War II crippled the artists' talents was also unfortunate. As a method of cutting down on costs,...( read more) Walt Disney decided to do a series of "anthology" features (aka package films), stringing together various shorts. The first of these was MAKE MINE MUSIC, which comprises of sequences such as "When You're Gone", "Peter and the Wolf", "Casey at the Bat", and "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing At The Met". The latter segment emerges as a major highlight for this film, being one of Disney's first major "unhappily ever after" stories. MAKE MINE MUSIC is probably too disjointed and dated to appeal to casual audiences, but Disney afficionadoes will enjoy it.
  • April 27, 2008
    One of the Disney Classics that eludes many. It's another Fantasia concept film of where the artisits have chosen to animate to music. Unlike Fantasia this film is based more towards Jazz numbers rather than the usual classical numbers (even though some have been put in for good ...( read more)measure!).
  • August 22, 2007
    WATCH STUDIO GHIBLI FILMS INSTEAD
  • July 13, 2007
    It was alright, I liked the original Fantasia better

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