Wonderful character development!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I wasn't impressed with this iteration of a classic film. I felt like the music wasn't as well in-time with animations.

1. The Symphony No. 5 in C minor. I didn't like the idea of this one, since i felt toccata and fugue in d minor was the only Fantasia segment that needed to be abstract, since it was meant to be an introduction to Fantasia. But i guess it could work again. However although it starts great, i will have to say that it ultimately ruins it, with the whole good and evil butterfly plot, trying to add a story to something that is suppose to be abstract. However it looks great and the beginning is decent, so i guess it works ok. 7/102. I will have to say that this is Probably my favorite segment in this movie, and could have easily been a good segment in the original, or the sequel Walt Disney was trying to make. 9/103. Rhapsody in Blue. I will admit, this is a pretty new and original take. But i still think it's too realistic and too much like something in the real world to be Fantasia. And while the animation is good and unique, it's not as beautiful, emotional or big as the original animation or even the animation for most of the other segments in this film. This is more like a cartoon you would see in Make Mine Music or Melody Time, it doesn't really fit into Fantasia. For what it is, i would give it a 10/10. But by Fantasia standards, it's probably a 7/104. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major-I. Allegro. The crew at Disney in the 1940s originally wanted a segment based on The Steadfast Tin Soldier fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, to be in the original Fantasia. I like the idea of this segment, and it could have had great potential. However this is still my least favorite Fantasia segment, both from the original and 2000. I think such a segment should be longer and slower paced, and i think it was much more straight forward than it needed to be. And i didn't really like the animation style they choose. It just looked too much like plastic. They could have definitely done more out of the environment the Tin Soldier goes through, and added much more excitement to this segment, both things like they did in the Rite of Spring or the Nutcracker Suite in the original. You see if you want to make a Fantasia segment out of such a small story, then you have to do your best on the environment, and just add alot more depth. There was definitely potential for great artwork on the sewers or when the soldier falls into the water and was eaten by this fish. And they could also have made the ending like the original to make it much darker and more dramatic. They did this in the Rite of Spring from the original, when the T-Rex killed the Stegosaurus. Showing how life is, and that things in the real world doesn't always have a happy ending. They could have easily done that in this one. But in the end, it was all just too simple for a Fantasia segment. It's a cute cartoon on it's own, and it could have been one of those shorts they show you before a Disney or Pixar movie in the cinema. But overall, this is just too small, too simple, and overall too dull to be in a Fantasia movie. Still i think this segment could have been done much better during the Golden Age of Disney. 5/105. The Carnival of the Animals. This one i would say is too small for a Fantasia movie, and feels more like a cartoon than a Fantasia segment. However the artstyle i think is absolutely great. 6/106. The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Some people have a problem with this movie replaying a segment from the original movie, instead of making a new original segment. However the thing is that while most people know that Walt Disney always wanted to make Fantasia a movie series. Only some people know that Disney planned with every Fantasia sequel to have one segment from the original be replayed as an 8th segment. So i really don't have a problem with that. 9/10.7. Pomp and Circumstance. I think having a Fantasia segment starring Donald Duck is a good idea. However i think they choose the wrong story for it. The whole romance between Donald and Daisy seem out of place for a Noah's Ark story. And like everyone says, they should have chosen different music for this one, because when you hear it, your gonna think of graduation. But it's funny and cute, so i guess it works fine. 6/10.8. The Firebird Suite. This is my second favorite segment in Fantasia 2000. But it's not perfect. While it starts off great, it's a little too short. And the ending with the Elk crying on Mother Nature to get her strong again, isn't the most believable, epic, or even best ending they could come up with. I mean, they could have made a grand battle between the Firebird and Mother Nature!! Don't question my high expectations!!! I mean they're Disney, they can do it. Overall despite it's problems, this one looks great and is a nice ending. 8/10.Overall i think they could have made the running time longer, and because of that also make the segments longer. So the segments and the movie could be more artistic, have more depth, and be overall more epic. And i'm not going to get into the celebrity appearances, because my opinion is the same as yours. They're pretty hit and miss. Plus this movie definitely feels like it's more made for kids than adults, unlike the original. However despite it's flaws this is still a pretty good movie. And most of the segments, while not as good as those in the original, are still really really good. Overall, i give this movie a 7/10.

At the start of the new millennium the Fantasia sequel was released.I remember seeing this in the Berlin Cinemaxx.This sequel includes the rerun of the Sorcerers Apprentice.Also some new stories.Like flying whales that gives the movie an epic start.Including a look back at old New York.So, here are something for everybody.But, it was one of the many Disney sequels that laid forgotten.Despite the rushed running time the movie, and it's not for everybody Fantasia 2000 has some outstanding animation, humor and heart.8/10

Having spent a long time in the making, Fantasia 2000 is the next installment in the sequence of movies started by the original Fantasia all the way back in 1940. Walt Disney had originally intended for Fantasia to be a recurring thing, with people going in every few years to see new segments set next to old favourites. Unfortunately the original failed at the box offices, not being at all what the audiences had expected, and it took the studio almost six decades to make a new one.So how does it hold up? In some areas really well, in some areas not at all. There are a couple of really good segments, like Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, a thrilling jazz piece with an animation style inspired by Al Hirschfeld. Easily my favourite in the whole film and actually pretty close to being my all-time favourite as well. Fast, energized and oozing personality. The opening segment, Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven, is also an excellent update on the original opening segment, and is actually even a bit better, containing more colours and a stylized storyline.Pomp and Circumstance – Marches 1, 2, 3 and 4 by Edward Elgar and The Carnival of the Animals, Finale by Camille Saint-Saëns are not as great, but both have some really good moments in them and are animated very well, with The Carnival of Animals being especially good with its fluidity and humour.And then there's of course The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, the only segment from the original Fantasia, and it is of course a timeless classic. One of the greatest shorts ever made. Don't let anyone tell you differently.But then there are Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi, Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102 by Dmitri Shostakovich and Firebird Suite—1919 Version by Igor Stravinsky. The first two fail because the use of CGI, which has aged awfully. Shostakovich's piece, telling the tale of The Steadfast Tin Soldier, is especially bad in this regard, looking all rubbery and like it was ripped straight from a Playstation cutscene. Firebird Suite, on the other hand, is objectively looking rather nice segment, telling about a spirit of spring awakening after winter but running into problems when she encounters a dormant volcano. But, you kind of have to compare it to the original closing segment in Fantasia. That of Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky and Ave Maria by Franz Schubert. And I'm sorry, but it's not even close.The film also suffers from truly horrendous interlude announcers. Do Steve Martin and Pen & Teller sound like the kind of people you want to see cracking jokes just before you're about to be pulled into an art experience containing some of the best pieces of classical music ever composed? Of course not! Their levity pulls you straight out of the mood and you have to build it all back up again. Some announcers, like James Earl Jones, do a fine job of providing the needed gravitas, but most of them don't. It was a risky move from Disney, taking in all these people when the original film only had one, and it didn't pay off.All in all I'm glad Fantasia 2000 exists. It has some really good segments and has some of that magic that made the original one of Disney's all-time finest. It's not as good, but I'm glad they tried. Perhaps they don't need to wait another sixty years for the next one.