Fantasia and Fantasia 2000

Bought by me for me as I have Fantasia 1 on video from years ago and loved it. Now have itvto watch and relive memories. Great purchase, good price, will use this company again.

Fan of disney must have in there collection & packaging arrived with no harm & arrived super quick!

The 1940s meet the year 2000 as music 🎶🎵 from Leopold Stokowski and classical music composers of the past mix with colour, animation, sound and memorable moments that defined classical music for generations. Walt Disney almost went bankrupt with this classic and is now in the top 100 greatest films ever made. This amazing film capture the imagination and creativity of the genius. From Beethoven to Schubert, Camille Saesaans to Elgar, there is something for everyone to see.

Fabulous music and dazzling hand drawn Disney graphics still impress many years after original release and even improved by digital enhancement in 2000. Maybe a little too realistic and frightening for unaccompanied young children.

I have Fantasia on vhs video when it first came out, but it's no longer good quality. So I bought it on dvd still great to watch today and I love Fantasia 2000. Great quality dvd no problem at all.

good dvd top seller

Disney's two films are brought together in this DVD. Some of the original version is repeated in the second, which blends the old and the new very effectively. The use of cartoons to illustrate classical music remains a great success and the DVD will be enjoyed by old and young alike.

Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 DVD is an absolute 'must have' whether you be seven or seventy. The Pastoral Symphony and Rhapsody in Blue are my faves and those dancing crocodiles are pretty good too. However, I think the 'Night on a Bare Mountain' sequence might be a bit scary for littlies. Otherwise, it is a brilliant way to introduce children to some wonderful music through sublime animation.

Fantasia made a strong impression on me when i saw it on TV as a child, half a century ago. Since then, i've come to associate Disney with the watered-down kitsch of "family entertainment" -- and with overpriced releases of old animation classics. This Blu-ray release has changed all that; the price is quite reasonable for the content. I will start with some things that haven't been adequately covered by previous reviewers. First, the Fantasia 2000 disc includes a short animated feature, Destino, which began as a collaboration of Disney (or rather one of his best animators) with Salvador Dali. After several months of work on the project, which began not long after the release of Fantasia, Walt pulled the plug, and it all went into the archives -- where it was rediscovered a few years ago, and turned into the little masterpiece it should have been all along, complete with the original (restored) soundtrack, a Mexican song. In case you think a Dali/Disney collaboration doesn't sound promising, i would have agreed with you, but this unique little film works beautifully. There's also a long documentary (perhaps too long) about the Dali-Disney relationship and the completion of the film, which is worth watching. Fantasia 2000 itself, which i hadn't seen before, is truly spectacular, as imaginative as the original, but of course with much better sound and high-def picture. As for the original Fantasia, it's better than i recall it from childhood: the digital remaster looks wonderful, the sound is about as good as you could expect from a 1940 recording, and best of all, at 125 minutes it's about one third longer than the original theatrical release! Most of the restored footage seems to reflect the more daring flights of the Disney animators, and they certainly weren't cut because they weren't up to the quality of the rest. There's also about 15 seconds from the Beethoven Pastoral Symphony sequence that is not restored here (or as some reviewers would have it, is "censored"), but you can see it on YouTube if you really want to. Here too i think Disney made the right choice -- that 15-second bit really is in excruciatingly bad taste and would be a major distraction from the beauty of the sequence. Of course, you have to wade through a series of Disney adverts to get to the good stuff, but it's well worth the effort, on both discs. At around $30 for two blu-ray and two DVD discs, this is really a good buy for anyone who appreciates good animation.

Na ja - sprache... Soviel wird nun auch wieder nicht gesprochen. Es geht um die Musik und die zeichnerische Untermalung zu der Musik. Die ist natürlich gut gelungen. Als Musiklehrer werde ich diese DVD mit viel Vergnügen immer wieder spielen.

Ho ricevuto l'ordine dopo 15 giorni e non posso che dire che il prodotto è eccellente, un consiglio: se non volete o non potete procurarvi lettori blu-ray e dischi blu-ray, non si può trovare di meglio come video in versione dvd, io sono totalmente soddisfatto

The masterpiece FANTASIA remains important on several levels. From conception to execution, Fantasia is a Disney studio venture into the unknown that has endured the test of time. Just as important, it was and remains an American masterpiece. It incorporates avant guard imagery and technological innovation that brought classical music to a new standard of family entertainment. This was the first motion picture to utilize stereophonic-ish surround sound which in fact holds up remarkably well in comparison to modern Dolby soundtracks. Books and many scholarly articles have been written over the decades about Fantasia, so you certainly don't need further illumination from me. This film was conceived with with the conviction that Fantasia was and would remain a work in progress. In the early 1980's the film was released with a new digital sound track created from scratch. The result was mixed since the original track, while not exactly "high fidelity" had a certain charm that could not be duplicated no matter how brilliant the orchestral performance. Enter into the scene, FANTASIA 2000. True to Disney's original mandate that the film should continually reinvent itself with state of the art exhibition technology, 2000 is a worthy addition to Disney's ongoing "work in progress". Shot in the IMAX format and incorporating new digital animation, FANTASIA 2000 represented the pinacle of Film and Sound art as it was at the beginning of the 21st Century. Addressing many of the reviews featured here, it should be noted that racism was simply a part of the international humor of its day. No offense was intended, at least not by the Disney Studio. In fact, FANTASIA was rather gentle in its use of stereotypes. Works of Walter Lang (Woody Woodpecker), Warner Brothers (Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs) and Max/Dave Fleicher (Betty Boop antics) were far more offensive by todays standards. The only FANTASIA that I have ever seen had one questionable moment in portraying black centaurettes as zebras. The scene was cute then and clever even today. I have never seen the notorious "Sunflower" seqence. I imagine it is as offensive today as it was mainstream in the era of "Amos and Andy". This rather tasteless humor was never mean-spirited or hateful. Disney was niether a hate-monger or a bigot any more than Al Jolson in blackface. I think that to focus on this one issue dismisses the overall wonder that FANTASIA was and remains. The Blu ray disc of Fantasia 2000 is stunning. So is the 1942 original. Since the original 35mm release had mediocre film grain and cell artifacts p we can view the Blu Ray release as a vintage old film presented in High Definition. Whimsically, the first run prints of the film never looked as good as its digitally enhanced counterpart. Nevertheless, a collection of both films in the ultimate reproduction format(s) is simply a continuation of Disney's concept. One day I have no doubt that we will see a 3-D installment. If these films can fill your home with brilliant symphonic music, then it is worth the cost of admission on that point alone. 2000 will give your Hi Def screen a real workout. As a collection, this set should be seen as a must-have for any serious Blu-ray library.

Lo primero - una obra como esta se merece una descripción exacta, y no la hay. Probablemente en la edición blue-ray hay también "el destino" de S. Dalí, pero en esta - no. Esta muy bien la primera, pero la segunda es más corta y repite el divertido "el aprendiz de Brujo", pero tener dos discos con lo mismo.. Bueno, la música y la gráfica de la fantasía - perfectas, pero la fantasía 2000 mucho por debajo de las expectativas.