At the present time, it’s not unusual for big-screen blockbusters to push a three-hour runtime. Animation, in the meantime, stays rather constant in the case of movie duration, normally sitting across the 90 to 100-minute mark. Disney’s earlier characteristic movies, “Snow White” and “Pinocchio,” clocked in at 83 and 88 mins respectively. On the other hand, “Fantasia” surpassed them each, sitting at a mammoth 124 mins.
To these days, it stays the longest Disney Animation Studios movie, with the following longest being 2018’s “Ralph Breaks the Web,” which lasts 112 mins. In an fun accident, the movie that adopted “Fantasia,” 1941’s “Dumbo” is considered one of Disney’s shortest at an insignificant 64 mins. The movie’s duration is one thing which places a large number of folks off, and it’s not the perfect movie to promote, specifically to a kid. In his overview for The New York Instances, Bosley Crowther made a good evaluation of the movie’s runtime, writing that it “has a tendency to weary the senses,” however was once nonetheless stuffed with reward for the movie, occurring to say it’s the “most unique and provocative movie in a while.”
“Fantasia” is an entire departure from Disney’s different movies and specifically audacious given the studio’s historical past of bite-sized shorts. This makes it specifically laborious to examine to Disney’s different narrative characteristic movies as there is not truly the rest love it. Walt’s experiments would possibly not have all the time paid off, however the sheer creativity on show right here in “Fantasia” is one thing that has to be noticed to be believed.
