Melody Time

Disney was known for combining his musical cartoon shorts into interesting feature-length anthologies and Melody Time is one of the best. But for the fact that all of the featured segments have musical themes, they vary widely in musical and artistic style. Included are the exciting "Bumble Boogie," ...more

The opening of Melody Time promises "something for everyone," and that's the main problem with this amiable descendant of the much more effective and ambitious Fantasia. By trying to please too many people, it ends up being less satisfying than if it had aimed at one target audience and tried to please that audience wholeheartedly. As is usually the case with anthology films of this sort, there are highs and lows. But while the "lows" are not too low here, neither are the "highs" particularly ...more