Sick Product of a Sick System

Absolutely the worst movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I think nearly everyone is guilty of forgetting to include this under the umbrella of a Disney film when we think of that universe. Aside from the fact that it is animated it doesn't have many similarities to the rest of the Disney cinematic universe. I love this film. It is so artistic and beautiful. I think my least favorite segment is the segment that is the most Disney - the sorcerer's apprentice, with Micky. I could leave it out of the film and still be fine with it. As a kid we would always stop the movie before the quite scary and eerie Night on Bald Mountain segment. It was too much for us as kids, but now I can fully appreciate it. This movie is beautiful to look at and equally beautiful to listen to. Such a sad, dying art of hand drawing an animated feature... to think that hands drew and colored every instant of that movie is just amazing. And the artistry shows.

I remember watching this film as a child and thinking it was fantastic, and going back to it almost ten years later still has yet to change my mind. This film is beautiful, in a time when animation was still fairly new, this one upped many films before it. The music included brought back the feeling I got while going back to look at earlier movies that would have orchestration play in-sync with the picture, and just completely immersed me in this world that I had forgotten about. Fantasia continues to be a Disney classic.

Fantasia is one of the most popular, amazing, and legendary animations. This is what started Micky Mouse's career. One of Disney's boldest creations/experiments to date to say the least. Its a combination of beautiful classical pieces of music along with unique and amazing animations starting with Mickey waking up from a dream. "Disney decided to include the short in a feature-length film with other segments set to classical pieces. The soundtrack was recorded using multiple audio channels and reproduced with Fantasound, a pioneering sound reproduction system that made Fantasia the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound."

2017 is a year of technical marvel. Looking at movies of today, we see massive, stunning works of animation. We can now achieve computer generated images that look nearly indistinguishable from reality, and at the forefront of movie making today is Disney. Through Marvel, Disney creates multiple action packed superhero blockbusters a year. Star Wars, after it's 2015 revival, has new movies being released annually. Pixar, after creating several successful franchises, is now resting on its laurels, creating sequels like Finding Dory, Toy Story 4, Cars 3 and Incredibles 2. Even Disney's in house animation team is finding success, bringing back the Disney princess formula with movies like Frozen and Moana. However, amidst all this success, we have lost the truly human touch. Fantasia perfectly captures all that was lost in today's Disney movies. The movie has a very personal and human feel to every aspect of it. The orchestra, a very tangible presence in the movie, feels alive. They laugh, play their own little tunes during the intermission, but most importantly, they make mistakes. The animation is the same way, It's very rough at times and sometimes lacking, with some animations being reused, however every shot is filled with passion. You can tell that people worked on this, people with ambition, though they were not perfect. In modern movies, this beautiful animation that looks so real lacks the touch of individualism that Fantasia has in spades. The scene of the Sorcerer's apprentice dancing around the broom is burned into our collective memory for a reason. In all its flaws, its rough edges, it feels real to us. We can see all the raw effort and energy that the animator's put into each of Mickey's footsteps and that resonates with us. Fantasia speaks to the viewer not because it's perfect, but because it's flawed.