1001 movies – Fantasia (1940)

As far as the plot goes, there is none. We get served 8 mini stories (some of them are very abstract so you will have to use your imagination) made in good old hand made animation. None of that 3d bull crap. As far as the dialogue goes, there is none. It is a motion picture where if the music does not complete the animation then the animation completes the music.

It’s presented as a recording of a live performance as a live orchestra is playing the tunes that’s in the … motion picture (can I even say movie on this one?). So yeah, that is whats awesome about it. I cant believe how skilled those musicians were not to mention how magic that animations that the animators made were, driven only by pure imagination (and a shitload of skill of course).

They managed to capture the atmosphere of the event very nicely, there is even a scene(?) of a guy tripping on his instrument as the main narrator guy explains whats gonna go on next. I am sure that wasn’t supposed to happen? And there is another shot where the orchestra starts jamming a funky beat as they are tuning before the another part of the performance starts.

So what we get served is visual music and audiotive animation for 2 hours with some explainings n shizzle in between. Pretty damn awesome if you ask me.

The slightly annoying part is that the narrator guy explained EVERYTHING that was going to happen on each part of the performance (yes I prefer that word now instead of movie or motion picture). Yes very nice for us who don’t wanna be startled by any possible surprises or anything.

I give it 4 Mickey Mouse (Mickey Mouse is owned by Disney please don’t sue me.) hats out of 5.

Does anyone get an impression they cannot help about that something about Walt Disney is evil?