Allegro Non Troppo

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Summary: What I've seen has been great
Review: I happened to catch the segment with the evolution and Bolero on Classic Arts Showcase, and I was so impressed that I had to find out what it was. I emailed the makers of CAS requesting the title, which inevitably led me here. I can't wait to see the rest of this film. The segment I have seen was brilliant. A visual delight with great colors and of course the music was great. It all works very nicely.

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Summary: Finally,..to be released on DVD
Review: I have the laserdisc of Allegro Non Troppo, and it's good to see that it's finally going to be released on DVD. As most readers of this already know, ANT is Bruno Bozzetto's Fantasia-styled movie. ANT has a beautiful sense of humor that no Disney animated movie has had. Some of the animation in some of the scenes is "primitive" compared to Fantasia, but the simple animation works very well with the humorous scenes. My favorite animated scenes? Slavonic Dance and the Finale. Very funny stuff (and very simply drawn, too.) This is a great movie and I hope it gets proper treatment for DVD. One thing that appears to be missing from the DVD is the English-dubbed track for the live-action scenes between the animated scenes. It will be nice to hear the original Italian dialog, but I will not be able to understand it and have to rely on the subtitles. It's sad that the English dubbing has not been included. (Why hasn't it been included?) Especially in comedies like ANT, dubbing into other languages can be used for comedic effect. (An extreme example of this is What's Up, Tiger Lily?) For this reason, I'm giving 4 stars for the DVD. Despite the lack of the English track, I'm eagerly awaiting the DVD's release...but I will still hang on to my laserdisc.

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Summary: Finally,..to be released on DVD
Review: I have the laserdisc of Allegro Non Troppo, and it's good to see that it's finally going to be released on DVD. As most readers of this already know, ANT is Bruno Bozzetto's Fantasia-styled movie. ANT has a beautiful sense of humor that no Disney animated movie has had. Some of the animation in some of the scenes is "primitive" compared to Fantasia, but the simple animation works very well with the humorous scenes. My favorite animated scenes? Slavonic Dance and the Finale. Very funny stuff (and very simply drawn, too.) This is a great movie and I hope it gets proper treatment for DVD. One thing that appears to be missing from the DVD is the English-dubbed track for the live-action scenes between the animated scenes. It will be nice to hear the original Italian dialog, but I will not be able to understand it and have to rely on the subtitles. It's sad that the English dubbing has not been included. (Why hasn't it been included?) Especially in comedies like ANT, dubbing into other languages can be used for comedic effect. (An extreme example of this is What's Up, Tiger Lily?) For this reason, I'm giving 4 stars for the DVD. Despite the lack of the English track, I'm eagerly awaiting the DVD's release...but I will still hang on to my laserdisc.

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Summary: Totally Excellent
Review: I loved this video--better then Disney's Fantasia. The music is great and the animation is extremely imaginative.

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Summary: Great animation, lousy live-action . . .
Review: I really do like this film, really I do. The animation, created in the days before claymation and computer animation, is first rate, highly imaginative, with some bits more "adult" than anything Disney ever dreamed of producing. But the live-action bits that are intended to "connect" the animation bits together is embarrassingly awful. Be prepared to fast-forward between the truly wonderful animation sections which, thank heavens!, make up the bulk of this film.

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Summary: "Not Too Swift"
Review: I saw this movie, probably in 1975 in an art house in Seattle. The memory has haunted me through the years, and now I've finally ordered the movie. Joy wells up at the prospect of viewing this incredible movie.

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Summary: Highly Entertaining
Review: I'd seen this in college (about 1979?) as required for a music course. There were no Italian translations, and I mostly found it confusing. The DVD release has subtitles, and is most enjoyable. I especially found the "Best of" additional short works funny and mildly political (love/peace/green earth hippie ideals of the 1960's and 1970's). There's enough sexual content and mild nudity that I'd would suggest not for younger than 10 year olds.

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Summary: Highly Entertaining
Review: I'd seen this in college (about 1979?) as required for a music course. There were no Italian translations, and I mostly found it confusing. The DVD release has subtitles, and is most enjoyable. I especially found the "Best of" additional short works funny and mildly political (love/peace/green earth hippie ideals of the 1960's and 1970's). There's enough sexual content and mild nudity that I'd would suggest not for younger than 10 year olds.

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Summary: Art that words just can't paint!
Review: Impressive. Witty! Amusement for the mind and food for the soul. Like a classic Broadway Play, one could watch this movie many times over; in fact, the more you see it the more humor is uncovered like "easter eggs" in a masterful software program.

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Summary: remenber
Review: In 1979, in the town of LYON(FRANCE) i've seen Allegro non troppo. In more of Fantasia of Walt Disney the critical aspect of the life was up by Allegro non troppo. Faschisme,bad love, solitude are seen in this film, all the scenes can bee saw by all the eyes, and like the scenes are make with true idea the music stay in you.I became a lover of 'la valse triste' de Sybelius. Since 1979 i can never see again this film.In France the video are in PAL or SECAM.If someone have a version of Allegro non troppo on a DVD or a video with format PAL i thank him to writte me.