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Summary: Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: That is a must have item. Your kids will love it but those who will really appreciate it are the parents. The music is excellent and when visualized by Disney himself it is just magnificent.
The sense of humor on places is just great and you will love it.
You will need a large screen to really enjoy it in full.
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Summary: Fantasia DVD
Review: WARNING: This is a DVD of classical music accompanied by cartoons and drawings. The songs and cartoons tell stories, but do not buy this expecting a normal disney movie like Snow White, or Dumbo.
It is a very good edition to your collection, if you like music though.
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Summary: Heaven for Disney Lovers
Review: This is really a great DVD for Disney lovers. And for music lovers too.
The video quality of these discs is very nice: Fantasia has been remastered quite well and, even if dated, it appears detailed, with relatively low noise and some grain.
Fantasia 2000 is of course very very good, but not "perfect". Maybe due to the higher difficulties for MPEG to encode drawings and pictures with sharp edges, you will notice some pixelization and blocking effects. Nevertheless, this is absolutely not distracting and the overall impression is good. Video is only "nearly" perfect but... you will be captured by the sound. Fantasia is great, even if the sound is dated and surround effects are a bit too exagerated by early-experimentation.
Fantasia 2000 is terrific. Pines of Rome is a very good example of high quality multichannel recording. And the DTS track delivers great basses, subtle details and much higher level compared to the DD version, giving more punch and improving resolution and S/N ratio.
Regarding the extras... you have to have it: you can find extras all around the three discs, and not only in the third one. You'll learn everything about Fantasia, and also about how Fantasia has never been...
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Summary: The reason to buy a DVD Player
Review: This is a wonderful movie for anyone with more than a five minute attention span. When I learned that they were making a box set, I bought a DVD player. I wasn't dissapointed.
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Summary: watch out
Review: I bought this set. they said it was restored with theatrial aspect ratio. they ... mines 4:3. bought mine at a local store, im taking it back. Do they think just because most people dont care that it doesnt matter. DVD features should be more then just writen on the box, it would be nice if they were on the DVD.
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Summary: A unique and brilliant MASTERPIECE from Disney
Review: What do you get when a very talented orchestra combines with a brilliant idea for a film? You get a Disney masterpiece of course. "Fantasia" isn't at all like the typical film from Walt Disney. A live orchestra plays several familiar music tunes throughout the two hours of running time, while at the same time, you get to watch animated cartoons that enact with the music. The orchestra has a lot of great instruments ready to play such as percussions, drums, harps, horns, and many more.Some of the cartoons and music are just there to make up pictures like you might picture in your mind while simply listening to the music, and others tell a story while music plays in the background. For example, you'll see Mickey Mouse star in an unforgettable cartoon where Mickey serves as The Sorcerer's Apprentice, which is my favorite part of "Fantasia." Another good example is when the conductor tells you to imagine what it would be like if you were in outer space looking at a desolate planet called earth. Right after he tells you that, the orchestra starts playing and then the cartoon starts out in outer space, dinosaurs eventually appear, and then from there, I'll let you find out the rest that "Fantasia" has in store. I'll admit, I'm not the biggest fan of orchestras or music without the aid of singing, but I did like most of the music in "Fantasia" and the cartoons were interesting to watch. And in my opinion, the idea of combining great orchestra music with live-action cartoons was brilliant, especially for the time that this film was made. Even if you're not a huge fan of instrumental music or even cartoons, I recommend giving "Fantasia" a try....you just might be impressed. I know I was!
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Summary: Escapism at it's best!
Review: I absolutely love Fantasia! I've seen it over 50 times and never tire of it. The DVD is even better than the theater version - I can watch it any time I want. Fantasia was the first video I bought and I replaced that with the DVD when it became available.
I can't listen to any of the music from the movie without picturing the images created by the Disney artists.
Too bad I can only give it 5 stars.
The visuals are beautiful - especially since Disney cleaned the original.
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Summary: Dumb
Review: Amen, Mr. Schneider! Ya hit the nail on the head. This movie blows chunks! Please, don't see it! Ignore all these stupid 5-star reviews!
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Summary: Wow
Review: All i have to say is "outstanding". both of these movies are simply marvelous and a delight to watch, most particularly, rhapsody in blue. the firebird suite is also breathtaking. a must have for everyone.
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Summary: Influential and enchanting
Review: There's something truly remarkable about this movie. An extremely personal project for Walt Disney, it is, quite appropriately, his studio's most ambitious creation. In my opinion, it's also their finest. I remember the first time I ever saw it--during its 1990 cinema re-release. At the time I was about seven and found it...a little...boring. But now, eleven years later, I totally love it. I wouldn't be surprised if most kids were to react to it as I did. It is very unconventional. There is little of the mainstream humour you'd find in a "normal" Disney feature. It is NOT The Little Mermaid. Instead it's a marvellous experiment. Eight classical compositions played against eight cartoons, only one of which disappoints. The Nutcracker Suite and The Rite of Spring are my favourites from the movie. The music is great, and both cartoons are masterfully done and beautiful to watch. The former is pretty and charming, with its tiny fairies and dancing mushrooms, and the latter is a powerful depiction of the creation of the world, and primitive life. Those two sections alone, in my opinion, elevate Fantasia high above any other animated movie in existence. But even then, there's more great stuff in the movie. The Toccata and Fugue sequence, with its well-known music presented against "abstract" cartoon images, is also hugely involving and impressive (not to mention surprisingly eerie). The Sorcerer's Apprentice (starring an unusually flustered Mickey Mouse) and the Dance of the Hours (with the hilarious dancing hippos and crocs) are exciting and witty, and probably the scenes from the movie that kids will most enjoy. Night on Bald Mountain has a great Halloween-y feel to it (scary imagery and creepy music) and the movie closes perfectly with the sedate Ave Maria. The Pastoral Symphony sequence (good music marred by clumsy animation and WAY too much sugar-coating) is the only part of the movie you'll want to skip. But the quality of everything else more than makes up for it. Everyone should experience Fantasia at some point in their lives. The sequel was okay, but certainly no where near the standards set by this one.
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