Fantasia is Kinda Boring

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I just watched the movie on Disney + and I gotta say it's kinda boring. I'd be lying if I said I've seen all the Disney Animated movies but I think I've definitely seen all the well known ones except for Fantasia until now. I guess I prefer my Disney movies to have dialogue and story. To me it's just moving pictures and music. Not that the music is bad or that the animation isn't terrific but that's all it is to me. I had to stop half way through for a break and most of the time I was seeing how many more minutes left. It's no surprise that I'm not really into opera music.

I think that's why a lot of people watch it while on drugs.

I watched the movie quite a bit when I got it on video years ago. I didn't mind the more boring parts much because then I could do something else like drawing or writing a story or until something that had a specific plot or story like The Sorcerer's Apprentice, or when the T-Rex shows up to terrorize other dinosaurs, and then later all the dinosaurs are dying in a horrible drought, including what is possibly the same mighty T-Rex from earlier.

Although Fantasia is animated, I don't really think of children as its prime audience.

I saw it in a movie theater several years ago. The movie theater was mostly kids and their moms.

The kids did not seem to enjoy the movie -- I remember one complaining about half way through that there were no words.

On the other hand, I dreamed about that movie for weeks.

Saw when I was a child in the 60's...in a theater, on the big screen and loved it.

Decades later it came out on VHS in the Eighties. So I bought a copy from the drugstore I worked at.

Watching in the Eighties on TV it was flat as stale beer. The main reason I thought at the time was that it doesn't work on the small screen as well as on the big screen. Though some parts, like the Sorceror's Apprentice, did stand up somewhat. Being an adult may be a factor too.

The fact that I said the masterpiece Fantasia is boring is coming from a guy who likes movies like The Emperor's New Groove. What does that tell you?

I think Fantasia is one of the best animated films of all time and certainly the best animated Disney film. I don’t find it to be boring at all. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Night on Bald Mountain are my favourite segments from the film.