i must have seen a different film!!

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

After reading all of the reviews of "Destino" and doing some searching for downloads of the movie I decided to search in some torrent engines. I was searching through a bunch of torrent search engines and didn't find "Destino" anywhere. (A torrent is just a compressed file that you can download with some free software.) Then I started thinking; if somebody could go to the Disney museum, which has a constant destino movie playing, and record it, then put it up for torrent download we could all get a bootleg copy. Either that or the Disney Corporation needs to make "Destino" publicly availible. Please contact me if you do obtain a bootleg copy.

My wife and I accidentally saw this little film as a prelude to The Triplets of Belleville. Having never heard of it before, not being aware it was nominated for awards...nothing, we had no pre-conceived notions about it and were pleasantly surprised. Since we weren't sure what to expect of "The Triplets", and this little cartoon came on first, we thought we were watching Triplets. We felt this was an awesome little cartoon vignette, but couldn't take much more than what we saw. It was truly a visual feast that came close to cerebral cortex overload. We were relieved when we figured out that this wasn't the feature film, but felt that we were treated to something special in addition to the awesome cartoon Triplets of Belleville.

What a wonderful surprise to see such a delightful short! Beautiful graphics and very creative story development. The singing was emotional but unintelligible (to me).

The best film of the year might not be Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. In fact, it might not even be 90 minutes long.The best film of the year might just be Destino, the long awaited finalization of the original collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali.Using a seamless combination of CGI and traditional hand drawn animation, the animators of Disney's Paris studio have created something of bewildering beauty and unrivaled maturity.In a mere five minutes, in this surreal story of two characters, I saw more pure aesthetic beauty and truth of the human condition than in most of the films I have seen here. The film's subject is desire, imagination, images and struggle. In ballet like grace, a woman, who connects herself with the shadow of a bell, becomes enraptured with a man, who emerges from rock. In the dance, they struggle with both imagery.Destino does more than simply dazzle with its images - it imbues them with real meaning. As if that wasn't enough, it goes a step further, and adds new to dimension to Dali's entire collected works. I will never look at a Dali painting in quite the same way after watching this short film.The animated short is an old and prestigious form. From Winsor McKay's first sketchs (which are remarkably good) to modern revelations such as "The Man Who Planted Trees", the animated short has pressed animation further, and provided audiences with stories worthy of telling and retelling. Destino continues in this fine tradition admirably. Being lucky enough to watch this on the big screen is an experience I will treasure forever.