Whatever its flaws -- from kitschy cupids to racist centaurs -- at least the first Fantasia had a human touch. The sequel seems cold and mechanical by comparison.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
21 Mar 2001
rotten:
It's not that the images aren't pretty, or that great care hasn't gone into them -- it's that the sensibility behind them is so icky, limited in its conception of beauty to picture postcards and the sort of paintings you see in chain hotels.
– Charles Taylor,
Salon.com,
8 Aug 2001
fresh:
As with the original Fantasia, the new film is a mixture of artistically respectable and mediocre moments, which for overall ambition and range, has no parallel in the world of contemporary animation.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
22 Mar 2002
fresh:
It provides some fine artists the chance to stretch and frolic, even as it reminds today's audiences of animation's limitless borders.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
7 Sep 2008
rotten:
The rest of these animated sequences depend on gimmickry, cuteness, or facile ideology.