Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated film & Walt Disney's 38th animated film & the sequel to 1940's Fantasia. It was produced by Roy E. Disney (the nephew of Walt Disney) & Donald W. Ernst, & stars James Levine & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This film has been rated G (MPAA/USA [certificate #36995]), G (Canadian English), and G (Canadian French). I would give this movie 99% of a star.

TRAILER(S):

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MUSIC PIECES:

1: 5th Symphony in C minor by Ludwig Van Beethoven

2: Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi

3: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin

4: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Allegro, Op. 102 by Omitri Shostakovich (Based on the story "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen)

5: The Carnival of the Animals, Finale by Camille Saint-Saens

6: The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas (from the 1st Fantasia)

7: Pomp and Circumstance - Marches 1, 2, 3 and 4 by Edward Elgar (Based on the story "Noah's Ark" from the Book of Genesis)

8: The Firebird Suite (1919 Version) by Igor Stravinsky

MOVIE INFO:

Walt Disney Pictures. December 17, 1999 (January 01, 2000 for the IMAX release). Fantasy-Musical (DUH!)-Family. 74min./color. DVD/BD; 2-D.

THOUGHTS:

I think this is an excellent sequel to Fantasia because it returned "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"!

Walt Disney's Fantasia

Walt Disney's Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film & Walt Disney's 3rd animated film. It was produced by Walt Disney, written by Joe Grant & Dick Huemer, narrated by Deems Taylor, & stars Leopold Stokowski (Irwin Kostal does the 1982 digital re-recording) & the Philadelphia Orchestra. This film has been rated G (PCA #5920) USA, G Canada, although this should've been rated PG for scary images. I would give this movie 100% of a star.

TAGLINE:

All the BEAUTY...All the DELIGHT...All the EXCITEMENT of the world's greatest music!

TRAILER(S):

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MUSIC PIECES:

1: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach

2: The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

3: The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas

4: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky

5: This isn't really a music piece, just an intermission called Meet the Soundtrack where Deems Taylor narrates it.

6: The Pastoral Symphony a.k.a. 6th Symphony in F major by Ludwig Van Beethoven

7: Dance of the Hours from the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli

8.1: A Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky

8.2: Ave Maria by Franz Schubert

MOVIE INFO:

Walt Disney Pictures. November 13, 1940. Fantasy-Musical (DUH!)-Family. 125min./color. DVD/BD; 2-D.

MY THOUGHTS:

I think that this is a great film because seeing what the music shows is excellent!

WALT DISNEY'S THOUGHTS:

Yes even Disney had his own thoughts about Fantasia. This is what he said;

Fantasia is timeless. It may run 10, 20, or 30 years. It may run after I'm gone. Fantasia is an idea in itself. I can never build another Fantasia. I can improve. I can elaborate. That's all.