Fantasia 2000 is an Underrated Classic | Video Essay

This is the FIRST video is a series where I explore every single Disney Modern Age film and prove once and for all, that the early 2000's are a severely underrated period of Disney history. Wish me luck...

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Works Cited:

The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature. Directed by Jeff Kurtti, Walt Disney Pictures, 2000

Bellano, Marco. “Painted Orchestras. Orchestration and Musical Adaptation in Fantasia and Fantasia 2000.” Teresa Fraile, Eduardo Viñuela (eds.), Relaciones Música e Imagen en los Medios Audiovisuales (2015): n. pag. Print.

“Fantasia 2000.” Box Office Mojo, www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3830482433/weekend/.

Ebert, Roger. “Fantasia/2000 Movie Review & Film Summary (1999): Roger Ebert.” Movie Review & Film Summary (1999) | Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fantasia2000-1999.

Holt, Nathalia. The Queens Of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History. Thorndike Press, 2020.

“Gifford Pinchot National Forest - Nature & Science.” Forest Service National Website, www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/giffordpinchot/learning/nature-science/?cid=fseprd734630&width=full#:~:text=Helens%20National%20Volcanic%20Monument,largest%20landslide%20in%20recorded%20history.

“A Timeline of Mount St. Helens.” Seattle Met, Seattle Met, 6 May 2020, www.seattlemet.com/travel-and-outdoors/2020/05/a-timeline-of-mount-st-helens.

0:00 - Intro
5:21 - Fantasia was a Disaster Too
8:44 - Cults, Failure, & Legacy
16:57 - Finally Talking About the Movie
31:17 - Blow Their Hats Off
36:48 - Why
42:46 - Outro