Fantasia

    Fantasia
    1940

    Synopsis

    Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

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    Cast

    • Deems TaylorNarrator - Narrative Introductions
    • Walt DisneyMickey Mouse (segment 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice') (voice)
    • Julietta NovisSoloist (segment 'Ave Maria') (singing voice)
    • Leopold StokowskiSelf - Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Reader

      A masterpiece of the art of animation. The concept and some of the episodes are tainted with kitsch, but there's no other animated film with its scope and ambition—it is, in Otis Ferguson's words, “one of the strange and beautiful things that have happened in the world.”
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Throughout Fantasia, Disney pushes the edges of the envelope.
    • 100

      The New York Times

      Fantasia is simply terrific—as terrific as anything that has ever happened on a screen.
    • 100

      Washington Post

      It is icon, uplift, art of the future, nostalgia, psychedelic journey, Americana, technological triumph, classic.
    • 100

      Los Angeles Times

      Fantasia is caviar to the general, ambrosia and nectar for the intelligentsia. It makes no compromises; it is the noblest experiment of a wizard in his bright field of artistry and creativeness. [30 Jan 1941, p. 9]
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      The most ambitious animated feature ever to come out of the Disney studios, Fantasia integrates famous works of classical music with wildly uneven but extraordinarily imaginative visuals that run the gamut from dancing hippos to the purely abstract. It's like a feature-length compilation of elaborate Silly Symphonies
    • 90

      IGN

      Envisioned as a musical symphony come to life, Fantasia is a bizarre, almost trippy experience rich with hypnotic visuals, dazzling animation and beautiful music.
    • 90

      Time

      Though Disney's toddling cannot keep pace with the giant strides of Ludwig van Beethoven, Fantasia as a whole leaves its audience gasping. Critics may deplore Disney's lapses of taste, but he trips, Mickey-like, into an art form that immortals from Aeschylus to Richard Wagner have always dreamed of.

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