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First published: November 13, 1940
Duration: 120 minutes
Parts in the movies:
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, The Nutcracker Suite, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Rite of Spring, "Pastoral" symphony, Dance of the Hour, Night on Bald Mountain

ABOUT THE MOVIE

This movie is an unusual movie which was produced by Walt Disney. Why? It was said so because it showed something beyond anything that time. In 1940s, the new movie industry had just appeared, which caused the movie produced were the movies with simple plot.

Having a animation movie in the cinemas (like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) were a superb thing, that’s what made Fantasia different, because it combines animation and music. At first, there were many people who considered it strange and extraordinary. But time after time, following technology improvement, people could see the greatness of Walt Disney who had thought forward at that time.

Fantasia consists of some stories. Most of it are the combination between music and the description of it in an animation. The music genre which is used in Fantasia is classical music.

One of what becomes popular in Fantasia is the story entitled "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice". In this story, we can see Mickey Mouse who is learning to become a sorcerer. One day, the sorcerer leaves his house and at the same time, Mickey screws up with the magical tools at that house.

FUN FACTS

• In "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice", Mickey Mouse’s teacher is a sorcerer named Yen Sid. If we spell that name backward, it becomes Disney.
• The classic music which are used in Fantasia are the works from some great world composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach (in Toccata and Fugue in D Minor), Tchaikowsky (in The Nutcracker Suite), and Beethoven (in Pastoral Symphony).
• At the time when Fantasia was released, New York Times, a famous newspaper, called it as an "earthquake" to describe how great the effect of Fantasia to movie industry.

Like I’ve said in my previous post, I love this song. The song is sung by Rob Thomas (from Matchbox Twenty). This song, well at least for me, is so touching. Every time I hear this song, I feel like wants to cry, but not because I am sad. This song is teaching us that problems will go someday. Well, all we can do is keep moving forward!

Well, folks, I proudly present (in Walt Disney production, of course :D)

Little Wonders
ost. Meet the Robinsons

by: Rob Thomas

Let it go
Let it roll right off your shoulder
Don’t you know
The hardest part is over
Let it in
Let your clarity define you
In the end
You will only just remember how it feels
Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders
These twists and turns of fate
Time falls away,
But these small hours
These small hours
Still remain
Let it slide
Let your troubles fall behind you
Let it shine,
Till you feel it all around you
And I don’t mind
If it’s me you need to turn to
We’ll get by
It’s the heart that really matters in the end
Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders
These twists and turns of fate
Time falls away
But these small hours
These small hours
Still remain
All of my regret
Will wash away somehow
But I cannot forget
the way I feel right now
In these small hours
These little wonders
These twists and turns of fate
Yeah, these twisted turns of fate
Time falls away
Yeah, but these small hours,
These small hours
Still remain
Yeah, oh they still remain
These little wonders
All these twists and turns of fate
Time falls away
But these small hours
These little wonders
Still remain

After few weeks I passed writing this blog (my Internet connection is distracted until now), on this opportunity I would like to discuss about Meet the Robinsons. I love this movie, although the story is not originally made by Disney. It is based on the novel by William Joyce, A Day with Wilbur Robinson.

The story is about a little child, who is trying to get his own family. He was abandoned when he was a baby, and then, because he is genius, he loves to make some experiments, although the result is not always satisfying. Sometimes, the couple who wants to adopt him must feel disappointed and angry because Lewiss (that’s the name :D) screws up with his experiments. Lewiss realizes that there will be no parents will accept and adopt him as he is now, except his own parents. In purpose to find his real parents, he tries to make a memory scanner to know who his real mother is. He makes the memory scanner day by day, not stopping although his roommate, Goob, cannot sleep because of him.

But the day he wants to demonstrate the memory scanner in science fair, Lewiss is visited by Wilbur, who tells him to beware of The Bowler Hat Guy. Without Lewiss’ notice, the Bowler Hat Guy (actually the hat) ruins the scanner. Lewiss feels disappointed and he doesn’t want to fix the scanner. But Wilbur keeps asking Lewiss to find out what is wrong with the scanner. Refusing to do so, Wilbur promises Lewiss to bring him to the day he was abandoned, but Lewiss has to finish the scanner.

Unexpectedly, Wilbur brings Lewiss to the future, where people travel through bubbles, planes, and have robots and monsters as their servants or pets. And then the time machine they are using is broken, so Wilbur asks Lewiss to fix it. When he is fixing the time machine, he accidentally meets Wilbur’s family. Lewiss easily falls in love with this family. In fact, when The Bowler Hat Guy with the hat named Doris try to kill him, Wilbur’s family protect and save Lewiss, they don’t care if they will hurt themselves. But after that, when Wilbur’s family notices that Lewiss is from the past, they ask Lewiss to go home to the past. Disappointed, Lewiss is convinced by the Bowler Hat Guy to give the memory scanner to him. Things become worse since then. What happens? Who is the Bowler Hat Guy? Find out by yourselves in Meet the Robinsons by Walt Disney Production.

The one thing I love about the moral lesson of this movie is Keep Moving Forward. This is the slogan of the Robinsons. If something doesn’t go perfectly, don’t give up and keep moving forward! Wow! That’s a good slogan, isn’t it?

Beside the slogan, I also love the song titled Little Wonders by Rob Thomas. I will discuss this song tomorrow with hidden mickeys in this movie, if my Internet can work well… (I hope…)

Oh yeah, the other thing I love in this movie is Tiny, the tyrannosaurs which is brought by Bowler Hat Guy to kill Lewiss, but then it turns out that although Tiny has big head, he has little arms.. LOL…

ps. When I was a little kid, I love PEZ candy… and accidentally I find this… PEZ Meet The Robinsons, 0.58-Ounce Assorted Candy Dispensers (Pack of 24). I’m sure your kids will love it too..