Disney's Fantasia: First impressions

Here we go for #3 in the Disney lineup, and already we've run into something I don't know. What is "Fantasia?" It's a kickass title is what it is, and fantasy is obviously involved. Also from the DVD there's Mickey Mouse and he looks like a wizard. Do I get to finally see a Mickey movie?! :D

I was expecting a lot more fairy tales before we hit new territory, so whatever this movie is it's already kind of a surprise. I guess it's the story of... Mickey Mouse being a wizard? I could probably get behind that. Depends what else is in there, I suppose. Lacy's hiding the case from me but I already saw the front so nyah, Jeremy wins and the pixie is defeated. Anyway, Lacy is just giddy with excitement and a couple of the comments I saw said that people have high expectations out of this one, so... enough dawdling? Enough dawdling. LET US FANTASIA :D

Still a great name.

Orchestra opening, that's different.

It's all bluuuuuuue. I like blue.

Is this a new production company logo? Cause it's taking an awful long time

Is this the movie?

SOMEONE EXPLAIN

She's mocking me now.

She's throwing bits of food at me now.

Hushhhhhh

Hi there Deans Taylor.

Ahh, this is like an intro bit

...oooooooooooooooh

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

I AM SO ON BOARD WITH THIS

STORIES, PICTURES AND PURE MUSIC

YES

ABSOLUTE MUSIC

This could be very very very awesome or very very very terrible

This sounds super trippy.

We're STARTING

Heh, he makes colors appear.

Ahh I know this piece BASSBASSBASSS...

This is much less fantastical than I was led to hope.

Still silhouettes of violinists, for the record

Horns now

Conductor vanished

Dancing lights!

I like that with the bows piercing through the clouds

Oh this is the part I really enjoy too

The smooth flying bow shapes and bridges

Lilting circles in the air...

BOWS AGAIN

love the strings followed by their shadows over the hills

ice paths winding through the air

don't understand the shine on the ripples

oh that bit is powerful and then sort of clouds on their ends like mountains in the sky and stained glass windows...

CONFETTI

BRIGHTNESS

...a molar just walked away from me sullenly

LIGHT FROM THE HEAVENS

and now it's just crashing up like waves in the sky

I CONDUCT FROM INSIDE A SUNSET

Well that improved. Heya Deens

TCHAIKOVSKY NUTCRACKERS NUTCRACKER ARE WE DOING CHRISTMAS MUSIC

They're going to animate the Nutcracker??? :D

they're not

Then what? More abstracts?

Will-o-wisps

 gives me shivers every time

Fairies!!!!

are they putting dew on things they totally are

there's something absolutely magical about how much the images match with the music. I could easily forget what this actually was

it's almost eerie an so very hypnotic

spiderweb coated successfully

AND BOOM GO THE FAIRIES

Mushrooms

Dancing mushrooms OH IT'S THIS ONE :D

hehe they're little dancers with the tiny button one

Their heads change size

oh let him in, come on guys

Yeah you'd better bow, tiny mushroom has NO TIME FOR YOUR SHIT

The music is just so good

haha they're like dancing ladies

clever how they pick out the "star" from the others with the unique color

underwater cave DAGON TIME okay that was a little eerie

It's only fish but with the music it feels sinister

ALSO WITH THE DARKNESSES

Fancy goldfish. Cleo's older sister? :D

I'll give them this, the movements are exactly as sinuous as the music. Great word that one

More flowers

HOSHITYES

RUSSIAN DANCING TO THE BEST PART OF THE NUTRCARCKER I AM ON BAORD WIRLL ALL OF THIS :D :D :D

LADY LFOWRS

WHEEEE that was great :D

I spy fairy wings

What are hmmm autumn they're painting the leaves

gold, all of them wooooow that was a pretty transition

leaves lilting on the wind to a clarinet and now they're dancing :D

hee playing on the feather things

don't get what these white things are supposed to INTENSE STRINGS NOW

most dramatic leaves I've seen in a while

I cannot get over how much is going on on the screen

these must be winter fairieyep

love the frost skating

I really miss skating

okay everything here is I am completely on board with this is splendid

LOOK ATHE SNOWFLAEKS

haha they're inside the flakes :D

NO DON'T BE OVerrrrrrrrr blah

how are they going to top that?

storytime

Magic Mickey time?

Oh this sounds very promising

Oh this sounds REALLY fun

kind of wish he hadn't told me now though

well that's eerie. That guy looks crazy intense

MICKEY MOUSE

love how expressive he is

DEMON SUMMONING

this music is mad eerie

AND NOW IT IS A BUTTERFLNOPE NOW IT IS NOTHING.

that is a hat of power.

way to look stern, Mickey :D

 I love how expressive he is

easiest Animate Objects ever

Hello mr Broom

okay this theme right here? Love it

matches every beat so perfectly :D

and still eerie at the same time :D

Hahahaa happy broom

the twinkly bit is amazingly jaunty

 BUM BAH bumbumbum...

ah crap there he goes

Astral Projection much?

Mickey, you shouldn't screw around with the cosmos. S'rude

Yeah he just blew up stars for fun

and now he's commanding the tides

methinks the wizard could do with a less totally power-crazy apprentice

Way to wish you could summon giant FLOOD OH MY SMOKED CABABAGE

someone forgot the Off button

earth elemental spirit rolled a 1

WHOA WITH THE VIOLENCE

ahhhh crap hahahahahaha you can already see where this is going

Listen to the music Mickey, you should know WHERE DID THEY ALL GET BUCKETS

FULL BUCKETS no less

"wait, I've heard that music somewhere before..."

yeah that'll help

Broom is best characted

I love how the brass seemed to match a cry of "HELP"

man you are going to be in SHIT\

where did you even get a whirlpool from

oh here we go

wizard has NO TIME FOR YOUR SHIT, water

that was bubbling did he BOIL it away

NOT YOURS

you deserved that

is THAT what Mickey sounds like???

ahhh that was a lot of fun I'm grinning like an idiot

nice going bud

"nothing in particular," eh? I think that "science" you refer to miiiight disagree

wait are we doing animated dinosaurs to music? this could rock

"bullies and gangsters?" REALLY??? there's this thing about talking down to your audience. Learn.

boy that whole intro really just harshes you out

I see a galaxy. Guess Dream Mickey Mage missed this one.

Nebula, really badly animated sun, dragonfire, nebula again, Mickey screwing around with more comets, a planet that is red eating a snack...

Clouds.

I found volcanoes

one of which has fireworks in it cause why not

that one has a firebreathing tornado in it. Of course it does

who wrote this music and can I slap them

AND THEN THEY ALL WENT OFF AT ONCE and the music went subdued again

I infer from watching this that magma is often red

it's weird, the backgrounds look so nice but the magma looks so... nope

that was a very unusual brass riff

GOZER

did broomsticks do this, too?

panning downward slowly has rarely been quite so dramatically scored

I found unicellular life

How's it going, neighbor? How bout them amoebas

Meiosis is INTERRUPTED BY A CLOUD OF DOOM that... brings the far realm to the world
alright then

AND A SECOND CLOUD OF DOOM turns everything into creepy sea life THIRD CLOUD OF DOOM evolution is easy when you have the forces of ultimate evil on your side, apparently

hey there fish

"Fuck this noise, up I go": and suddenly he's a turtle in dinosaur land

with early alligator dragons

sup bros

just out here eatin' fish and panning upward lazily to reveal bigfaceodactels, you?

just chillin' in midair to flute trills

MY SQUID

MY YOUR HEAD

and that, boys and girls, is how jungles are made

YAAAAAWN hey it's a triceratops

DODGED

MY REEDS

"you're obviously some kind of snack tree. Now hold still"

All these dinosaurs are real dicks hen it comes to food

man steggo you have a tiny tiny head

THERE THEY GO AGAIN. Perfectly good leaves below but nope, tastes so much better when I get it FROM YOUR MOUTH

try getting something outta his mouth. I dare you

the lighting and layout is pretty awesome here

SUP BITCHES

ZUUL

 NO TIME FOR YOUR SHIT

that stegosaurus looks gigantic

What does your neck taste STILL NOT TIME FOR YOUR SHIOT

"welllllll fuck"

How many times is it going to die. Seriously.

that was surprisingly anticlimactic

annnd now everything is very dry

mud't not all that tasty, is it

I don't know that I've mentioned it yet but I actually really, truly, detst this music

DOOM CLOUD: LAND EDITION

guess you guys are about to evolve again

into footsteps

seems like a step back oh yes I made that pun who's going to stop me Lacy can't I didn't say it out loud

you've all evolved into skeletons. I feel like this is not a success

"just gonna fill in this one spot in the sky, don't mind us"

annnnnd BULETTE

apparently now that all the dinosaurs are dead the Earth is just... rocking out MADE THAT PUN TOO

oh good the main leitmotif is back cause you know I wasn't any kind of tired of that

and now there's an eclipse because when you have an apocalypse, overkill is best

are we done?

WE'RE DONE!!!!

THANK. FUCK. Intermission ahoy

was this normal for movies at a certain era? Cause I've never seen a film with an intermission

hahaha yesssss light jazzy music for the intermission

that was all kinds of not fifteen minutes

Donald Duck?

..,wut

I found... a line

Hello Sound Track

hah

Ahhhh that's cool how they visualize the harp sound with the ripples I mean all sound does that but still

rounded and middle for the flute, fair

oh yeah that's trumpet alright :D

AHAHAHA the flubbing at the ends

triangle was a bit on the nose

Ah, more Beethoven :D

Don't think I know the 6th.

OOOOOH this sounds very promising I am completely on board with this

Again, kind of wish he wasn't "centaurettes?" really?

I was plugging my ears. Tired of him telling me everything. S'rude

oh that's pleasant

UNICORNS THAT ARE BABIES I WANT TO something manly

shut up all of you

Satyr!

SATYRS AND BABY UNICshut up

IMMA GET YOU

Nightmare Pegasus has arrived and there's swan Pegasus. Dad and mom?

Okay grape-eating baby pegasus is the cutest

HAHAHAHA poor inept fledgling. Foal? Chick? Foal I guess

WOW that theme is massive when it wants to be and I love it :D

the parents are so incredibly stately and THERE ARE JUST MARBLE PILLARS FOR FUN NOW AREN'T THERE

JUST OUT IN A LAKE

WE'RE GREEK WHAT DO WE CARE holy smokes that's quite a number

hehehe diving foals

man he got better at that in a hurry

I've had some fine days when the sky was that color

foreground could use work there with the flowers and leaves

hm, different movement? I see some "centaurettes"

WHO ARE TOPLESS WELL THEN

my inner 6-year old is chortling rigorously and my inner 12-year old is very confused right now

this was considered appropriate? Oh sure NOW the foliage is hiding them but hot damn those are risky outfBUTTS, BUTTS EVERYWHERE

the little cupids are trmenedously cute

that hat is just silly

WHY ARE YOU WEARING DOVES

oh sure they'll just stay like that on your head, no problem lady

MENS IS HERE

love the natural foliage forming curtains, it's tremendously silly

"I'm blue with blond hair. Wanna date?"

Why is everybody strange colors?

How did I not notice this earlier

meanwhile the cupid fairies are just everywehre being super pleased with themselves

the human(oid) art style has definitely improved but I feel like they're still off somehow. the blue one with the black hair looks pretty good though

GODDAMN CUPIDS STOP BEING AGORABLE

I think you may both have a very serious case of not-breathing. You're blue

"Lookit us guys we're awesome. Good work sir."

okay well those are just regular curtains now stop being a peeping top and making your butt into a heart

new movement!

oh this one ins instantly appealing :D

wine festival

and trip-l-et tri-pl=-et trip-l-et

oh the strings crashing in as they look into the vat is the best thing

Silenus!

complete with drunken uni-donkey

still not happy to see donkeys after the whole wait mayeb that's supposed to be Bachhus himself

um, whuy did the music switch to suck mode

hahahahah the donkey hop dance

flomp

LADY CHASING TIME

ahh there we... sumble back into the main theme

SMOOOOOOOOCH

DOOM CLOUD. You're all gonna evolve

 oh shit son it's GOZER
How's it going ominous Zeus

ephaestus man you look like you're having the time of your life

Bacchus when someone asks if you'r ea god you say YES. It's even true

awww baby unicorn

this all fits so well DON'T ZEUS MY BABY PEGASUS

"If you will not be sober... you will be DESTROYED"

way to waste all the wine ever, Zeus

"EVERYTHING HAS TURNED INTO WINE, MY LIFE IS COMPLETE"

nah I'm done fucking with him for today

just gonna casually throw these wherever, not like it matters

and so, off doth fuck the doom cloud and the sky Emperor

that's the clarinetiest horn I've ever heard

the primary colors are really striking there

how many different mythical creatures are here? Pegasi, unicorns, centaurs, satyrs, cupid baby fairy things, couple of gods

oh that's fantastic the rainbow

I CAN TAP DANCE

"I can totally get drunk on rainbows, you just watch me"

look at them changing colors this is all fantastic who did this I'm on board with all of it

don't think rainbows work that way

that sounded like the start of the end ahhh yeah :(

Helios

quite the stylized sun you've got there

do we get Nyx?

Nyx is here!

that's the most benign nightfall ever

sleep proper, new foal

Artemis

it was all your fault Artemis, you gave Mickey all those ideas

bah it's over

there is more, right?

good.

The Dance of the Hours, a pageant of the hours of the day.

Duke Alvisa in Venice. played straight then?

THAT IS AN ONSTRICH

IN BALLET SLIPPERS

you know sometimes I worry that I am not very sart

ostriches doing ballet

well then

and again the leader color-marked. I like it. Music's a bit placid

and then physics happened

OH IT'S THIS ONE I KNOW THIS PIECE :D

well I've heard this part anyway

I have fruit GIVE US FRUIT here is fruit

oh come on fuck off girls, you're not dinosaurs

I know you're birds but it doesn't count

good job ladies. Way to greed your leader out of breakfasTHAT is a hippopotamus

with ballet shoes

why am I surprised who authorized my surprise and they ar wearing tutus of course they are

HER NOSE AND HER ARMPIT because of course that is how you do

admittedly the most graceful... ballet-dancing hippo... I've everseen

I like how a different instrument has takTUTUS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY

already?: alright, nap away then

eating grapes and not fancing very much is tiring work after all

ahh, duselemphants

those are elephants

mischievous-looking elephants

Cleo stop being places

oh what are they up to AND THEY HAVE BALLET SHOES TOO

YYYYYOMP no bubbles for you

sure let's have bubble tutus, why not

bubbles lifting elephants. Wel that makes sand now one has got one stuck to its foot and the music is being ominous about it

oh come on that's not very nice

night is about to fall...

and a wind blows them away because elephants are very vulnerable to wind

who's going to be Night, now?

CREEPY GHOUL THINGS

bats?

lizards of some type

crocodiles

ba-DUM!


just behaving like creeps cause it's fun?

which one is the leadOh there he is

feather in his cap. Literally

welp. Things I didn't expect to see today: a crocodile with a crush on a ballet-dancing hippopotamus

that's gonna suck for you yup

TWICE

hey she likes you back bud

I love how this could be the actual ballet with just a few esxceptions

and now we're chasing because HEY IT'S THIS SONG TOO!!!!

what the WHAM

HIPPOS ADVANCE

CROCS CHARGE

Elephants and ostriches just get caught in the crossfire

NOT HOW HIDING BEHIND PILLARS WORKS

that's gonna be an issue, I can tell

guys stop being WHAT THE HELL DO YOU ELEPHANTS THINK YOU'RE DOING

Hippos 1, Crocs 0

all the ridicuoous poses annnnd boom goes the palace door

well that was loads of fun :D too short though

utterly different, eh? not gonna listen to him

MOUNTAIN and Ghostbusters-sounding strings and the moon

oh this is ominous as all hell I love it already

THE FUCK IS THAT

GUYS I FOUND SATAN AND whoooo there go long shadowy doom hands BATS

annnd he's conjuring the undead WHAT IS THIS MUSIC IT IS SHAKING MY BONES

the phantoms look like they're ehtereal or from another dimension somehw

like the animation doesn't fit and it's VERY eerie

DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH GHOSTS THERE

town's got a serious demon prince of the Abyss issue there

that just sounds like a hellish festival

the massive claws and yep those are demons straight up

"You know what? Nope."

DOOM CLOUD evolution time

what's he up to there

ladies made of fire

and he turns them into beasts and then into demons and wait there are two more demons than there were beasts hmmmm annd now just blue devils

EYES

this whole thing is fantastically sinistHE JUST SET HIMSELF ON FIRE

well why not, I suppose, FACE

SKULL

he's got a lot of minions to just waste in the flames of Hell THOSE were boobs

FLAME STRIKE

this is impossibly sinister and wwwow you look bad when illuminated

I think your time is up, Asmodeuphistopheles

back to your holes, hellcritters

spirits return whence you belong

lot of yawning in this movie

screw this noise I am out of here

so wait is he just part of the mountain and can do that anytime he likes???!

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too placid now

ah, a sacred procession

We thank you Lord that dawn showed up while the Demon Prince Satanael was dicking around

We don't thank you fir this bridge that hides our light except in reflection how doers that work exactly

oh this is Ave Maria

he was right, those two are like night and daaaaaah I see what you dod

couldn't have gotten a better hymn? For The Beauty Of The Earth is pretty bomby, coulda had that

I suppose the differing temps and styles are part of the point but it still looks like a whole bunch of bug-eyed puddings are just inching forward through the woods

ind of feels wrong at this point to have discernible lyrics of any sort, hoenstly

maybe I'm just ridiculous

well there's no maybe I am just ridiculous

Anguished and the something

What am I even looking at oh it's a break in the treeline

Hosts of darkness fade, eh

and so light triumphs again. Evil should learn to stop screwing around

wait that's it, isn't it?

IT JUST ENDS? OH COME ON

I WANT MORE

MORE OF THIS I WANT NOW. Except the dinosaurs. EVERYTHING ELSE

Okay well that's enough for me for now, I guess

wow, that was really something, though

like, just... I'll leave it at wow. Wow is right.