33 Facts About Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated experimental concert film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

The commercial success of the 1991 home video release of Fantasia 2000 convinced Eisner that there was enough public interest and funds for a sequel, to which he assigned Disney as executive producer.

The film was then released in 75 IMAX theaters worldwide from January 1 to April 30, Fantasia 2000, marking the first animated feature-length film to be released in the format.

Panels showing various segments from Fantasia 2000 fly in outer space and form the set and stage for an orchestra.

Idea of a Fantasia sequel was revived shortly after Michael Eisner became chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company in 1984, when Walt's nephew, vice chairman Roy E Disney, suggested it to him at a lunch.

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Fantasia 2000 had once asked Andre Previn to work on a Fantasia film but Previn declined after he learned it was to feature songs by the Beatles rather than classical music.

Fantasia 2000 had placed it in the middle of the film without Ave Maria, but felt it did not work and scrapped the idea.

Disney considered using Clair de Lune, a piece originally made for Fantasia 2000 that followed two Great white herons flying through the Everglades at night, but thought it was "pretty boring".

Fantasia 2000 explained that because CGI was in its infancy during development, the first third of the segment was hand drawn using pencil to get a feel of how the whales would move.

Fantasia 2000's appearance went through numerous changes, partly due to the lack of reference material available to the team.

When development for Fantasia 2000 began, Grant suggested the idea of having one of the ostriches play with a yo-yo to the last movement of The Carnival of the Animals.

Fantasia 2000's idea involved a selection of Disney princesses and heroes in a wedding procession carrying their future children who would then be presented in a ceremony.

Fantasia 2000's becomes a Neutral Sprite where her growth trail stops and an Ash Sprite when the forest has been destroyed.

Fantasia 2000 grossed a worldwide total of in 30 days, and at the end of its IMAX run.

Fantasia 2000 has earned a total worldwide gross of over since its release, with $60.

Todd McCarthy of Variety pointed out that while the original Fantasia 2000 felt too long and formal, its "enjoyable follow-up is, at 75 minutes, simply too breezy and lightweight".

Fantasia 2000 summarized the film "like a light buffet of tasty morsels rather than a full and satisfying meal".

Fantasia 2000 described some of the animation as "powerful", though he thought others, like the dance of the abstract triangles in Symphony No 5, to be "a little pedestrian".

Fantasia 2000 admired Rhapsody in Blue and its interlocking stories, pointing out its style was reminiscent of the Madeline picture books by Ludwig Bemelmans.

Fantasia 2000 thought Pines of Rome presented itself well in the IMAX format and found the Piano Concerto No 2 played "wonderfully as a self-contained film", while he found The Sorcerer's Apprentice to be "not as visually sharp as the rest of the film".

Fantasia 2000 nonetheless described the film overall as "splendid entertainment".

Fantasia 2000 found The Sorcerer's Apprentice fit well with the rest of the film and the battle in Symphony No 5 too abbreviated to amount to much.

Fantasia 2000 found the segment with the whales failed in that the images "quickly become redundant".

Fantasia 2000 found Rhapsody in Blue to be the second-best in the film with its witty, hyper-kinetic evocation of the melting pot with sharply defined characters.

Fantasia 2000 found the segment with the flamingos cute and the one with the tin soldier to be romantic.

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Fantasia 2000 felt Symphony No 5 was "dull and uninspired", the yo-yoing flamingos "wasteful", and the New York City-based story of Rhapsody in Blue interesting but out of place in this particular movie.

Fantasia 2000 found the story of the tin soldier to successfully mix its music with "top-notch animation" and "an emotionally rewarding story".

Fantasia 2000 felt the Firebird section was "visually ingenious", and Pomp and Circumstance the most light-hearted episode and the one with the most appeal to children, in an otherwise adult-oriented film.

Fantasia 2000 summarized the film as "slightly more successful" than the original Fantasia, more child-friendly and a "mixed bag of delights".

Fantasia 2000 drew a comparison to The Firebird with the 1997 Japanese animated film Princess Mononoke.

Fantasia 2000 pointed out that though the film includes moments of comedy and pastoral, "the themes running through the old 'Fantasia' – the struggle between light and dark, the war between chaos and order, the ultimate triumph of goodness – find only a pale equivalent in this new version".

Fantasia 2000 compared the film's orchestra set to scenes from A Matter of Life and Death and thought the CGI in Symphony No 5 lacked the technical qualities of Toy Story.

In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew, Roy E Disney, while working on Fantasia 2000, unearthed the dormant project and decided to bring it back to life.