I'm a fan of music in general; my wife got me much more interested in classical music. We have international origins; I'm American, she was born and raised in Ecuador, her dad is Czech, and her mother Austrian. Her parents are very interested in classical music. We've seen it twice, now; the local(ish) IMAX theatre charges $11, and it's well worth the money. We've got the original Fantasia on LaserDisk, and we've shown it to the kids (5 and 2). They love just about any kind of music. They also loved Fantasia 2000, although the youngest thought parts of it were too loud. All of us were a little disappointed in the abstract piece, put to Beethoven's Fifth. We were hoping for something more abstract (I'll never forget the lumbering stone from the original Fantasia's Toccata and Fugue). What was actually delivered was a short story involving abstractly-drawn butterflies in an abstract environment. The movie may have been America-centric, but it did appeal to my wife and parents-in-law as well. Of course, they knew most of the music. No one has remarked yet on what I consider a most masterful stroke: when the music was not necessarily recognizable by the typical American audience, the visuals were stunning and/or told a compelling story. For instance, Pines of Rome is music I've never heard (or not enough to recognize, anyway), but it had incredible CGI. Rhapsody in Blue was more recognizable, and carried a more familiar, less breathtaking animation. We've been discussing which piece they'll carry over for the next Fantasia (probably to be presented in four-sense virtual reality:-) but we just can't decide. The only thing we can agree on is that they'll probably drop the abstract portion every time. Wish they'd take up Eine Kleine Nachtmusic. Judebert
If you just don't like classical music, there are other venues. Heavy Metal used more modern music, along with barely-associated animation sequences strung together to simulate a plot.
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I'm a fan of music in general; my wife got me much more interested in classical music. We have international origins; I'm American, she was born and raised in Ecuador, her dad is Czech, and her mother Austrian. Her parents are very interested in classical music. We've seen it twice, now; the local(ish) IMAX theatre charges $11, and it's well worth the money. We've got the original Fantasia on LaserDisk, and we've shown it to the kids (5 and 2). They love just about any kind of music. They also loved Fantasia 2000, although the youngest thought parts of it were too loud. All of us were a little disappointed in the abstract piece, put to Beethoven's Fifth. We were hoping for something more abstract (I'll never forget the lumbering stone from the original Fantasia's Toccata and Fugue). What was actually delivered was a short story involving abstractly-drawn butterflies in an abstract environment. The movie may have been America-centric, but it did appeal to my wife and parents-in-law as well. Of course, they knew most of the music. No one has remarked yet on what I consider a most masterful stroke: when the music was not necessarily recognizable by the typical American audience, the visuals were stunning and/or told a compelling story. For instance, Pines of Rome is music I've never heard (or not enough to recognize, anyway), but it had incredible CGI. Rhapsody in Blue was more recognizable, and carried a more familiar, less breathtaking animation. We've been discussing which piece they'll carry over for the next Fantasia (probably to be presented in four-sense virtual reality :-) but we just can't decide. The only thing we can agree on is that they'll probably drop the abstract portion every time. Wish they'd take up Eine Kleine Nachtmusic. Judebert
If you just don't like classical music, there are other venues. Heavy Metal used more modern music, along with barely-associated animation sequences strung together to simulate a plot.