Yesterday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Fantasia 200, I pulled out my VHS copy and rewatched it. It still holds up. Fantasia is to me one of the greatest achievements in cinema history, and this is an excellent follow-up.
The basic idea of Fantasia is to replicate a symphony concert, but to add images. My main complaint about Fantasia 2000 is that is too much refective of our ADD times. The sequences are too short. I love the flamingos and the yo-yo, but only a minute and a half?
But every sequence does work. And when my main compaint is that I want the sequences to be longer, well, that means the movie works. Seeing this film in IMAX (twice) was one of my true movie-going pleasures of 2000. It is still a great pleasure today. Grade: A
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