Make Mine Music is a Fantasia-like film that is composed of a bunch of different shorts set to music. What sets this apart from Fantasia is there is more narrative, including narration through several of the pieces, and there is no orchestra or announcer. They are just little shorts with music.
Eli
Rating: 6/10
Reaction: This movie started out S-L-O-W slow! The first few segments were nothing but boring, and I was worried that this would be the longest one yet to sit through. (Not time-wise, but just in feeling long.) However, in the middle, things turned around quite nicely! Peter and the Wolf was a glorious segment, with each instrument representing a character in the piece. It was fun and frightening. There was also an awesome clarinet who led a group of instruments on a jazzy ride. A pair of lovebird hats were separated, and reunited, making this one a sad but hopeful clip. It was also narrated by the singing Andrews Sisters! Fantastic! And the final short about an opera-singing whale was quite nice, and takes literally the saying "dream big." He could barely fit in the Met. All in all, if the whole film was just those last few shorts, it would've gotten a much higher rating. But since it started out so awful, I couldn't give it what it deserved.
Regan
Rating: 5/10
Reaction: One word: boring. This movie--again a collection of sketches--comes across very much like Fantasia-lite. To be fair, the second half got significantly better, but the early sketches were just flat out dull, with unmemorable music and animations that had me yawning. Things improved with Peter and the Wolf, the hat song (don't remember its real name, but I loved the song about a fedora and a blue bonnet in love in a department store window), and the opera singing whale (although that was a bit too depressing!). This one just never caught my attention despite all that and I wasn't sad when it was over.
No comments:
Post a Comment