I was so let down by the lifelessness of "Melody Time" when I first saw it. I went on holiday in 2000 and I went to a video shop and I chose it over "Make Mine Music" and "Saludo Amigos". This is possibly the stupidest feature-film ever made by Walt Disney. If you think about it, "Fantasia", a stunningly beautiful masterpiece, was first released in 1940 and "Melody Time" debuted in 1948 and I seriously would expect to see a decent amount of progress in eight years! Here are the segments in "Melody Time" which all will never stand against "Fantasia": ONCE UPON A WINTERTIME: A man and a woman go ice-skating and just because he trips her up unintentionally she rejects him and the same happens to a man rabbit and a woman rabbit - just plain stupidity, if you ask me! BUMBLE BOOGIE: A constantly irritating version of "Flight of the Bumble Bee" is performed here. JOHNNY APPLESEED: The holy spirit is not here at all, even though Johnny Appleseed is a holy man, and his guardian angel is no holy ghost either. LITTLE TOOT: is a young tug-boat who is arrested just for trying to help out which may distress a few people. TREES: A lifeless follow-up to "Bambi" BLAME IT ON THE SAMBA: Donald Duck and his parrot-friend Joe Carioca go to a café and find themselves inside the glass cup of water they had been drinking and that, perhaps is the only slightly interesting thing about "Melody Time" but then a very silly song and dance takes place. PECOS BILL: I think I perhaps like this one because it kind of takes me to how it was in the Wild West in the 1800s sometime. Over all, this film is just dead, dead, dead almost all the way through it. I advise you to never reject "Fantasia" for this. It's BORING!
Review of Melody Time
