the audience applauded

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

We all remember Disney's Fantasia as a beautifully crafted visual masterpiece that presented gorgeous imagery in tuned to classical music scores. From Mickey Mouse as a sorcerer's apprentice, to the evolution of life in The Rite of Spring, to the legendary Night on Bald Mountain, Fantasia is forever regarded as one of the greatest films of all time for how technically innovative and haunting it is. As for today's film, Allegro non troppo comes from the creatively humorous mind of beloved Italian animator Bruno Bozzeto and his team of animators as a clever parody and tribute to the classic, and it delivers in flying colors.The film is a collection of six animated shorts (two of which actually feature scores that appeared in the original Fantasia), and while all different in tone and style, they all deliver the necessary emotions when needed. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and others will even make you think. The styles also differ between the shorts, but they work in their favor to fit in context to the musical piece, whether cartoony, or abstract or even pseudo realistic.Also, the film is tied together with black & white live-action sequences that feature a substitute orchestra of elderly women being led by a pompous and stubborn conductor while an imprisoned animator is forced to think up cartoons to match the music, whilst an annoying and often bumbling presenter tries to keep the show together and a lovely young charwoman cleans up after everyone. Although often too silly and over the top at times, the skits are very funny as they actually spoof Disney more than the animated skits. The orchestra of imprisoned women and the animator as well are brilliant albeit brutal jabs at Disney's worker unions at the time.And then there's the finale, which is a pure embodiment of the best word that describes this whole film, outrageous, as it's a series of rapid-fire "finales," which are pretty much blackout gags that are ludicrous albeit disorderly. Really, the whole film is outrageous, from abstract nudity, to unpredictable gags, to even the ending, the whole movie embraces the art of music, animation and even comedy to such an outlandish level that it's impossible not to love. So even though Allegro Non Troppo doesn't have the highly detailed animation or legendary visual techniques of the Disney masterpiece, it is in every way funny, creative and looney as it needs to be. If you're looking for a parody of a Disney film that both mocks and admires the film while also letting its hysterical imagination run wild, definitely seek this one out, just don't show your kids, it ain't for them.

... is the first thing you'll see, as this melange of cartoons is framed by a story of an animator kept chained to a dungeon wall except when there's work for him to do.The "3 Stooges" humour of the live action segments quickly becomes tiresome, as does the film's caprice of being a take-off on Fantasia. The animated segments are ingeniously thought out, but the humour is so vulgar and so Italian that foreigners probably won't relate to it.Now I am going to turn around and tell you to rush out and watch Allegro non Troppo. There is one truly wonderful sequence - Valse Triste, aka Feline Fantasies, aka The Last Meow. The dreams and longings of this homeless pussycat are among the greatest that animation has produced (you can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX92pHpPc-k ). Those of you who enjoy the work of Yuri Norstein or Martin Rosen would do well to check this out.

"Allegro Non Troppo" is truly a great movie. The storyline, although sample and maybe awkward, is very, very funny.Animations are good, too. The second and third ones are my personal favorite, but the finales are good, too! The storyline can be offending and crude, but that's all the point of it : it's like "Fantasia", from Walt Disney, as it said in the beginning of the movie, but actions made by characters are more adult-oriented (i.e. : sexual connotation).Everybody who loves bizarre movies, animations, and stuff like that should love this movie. It is also posing a critical eye over the modern society, one made of consummation and things like that.Definitely, a must-have!

I saw this film for the first time over twenty-five years ago while in college. I saw it three more times and I loved. It is the finest animation film I have ever seen. I also think the comments on the live sequences are off-base. I thought they were exceptionally funny. A few years after college I bought the videotape and watched it several more times. I forgot about it for some years until I was recently reminded of it. I can't find my tape, so I will buy it again. I can't wait to see it again. I've recommended it many times over the years to many people (which is probably how I lost my videotape of it - damn you Michael!). Mind you, I've never seen Prisney's "Fantasia," but I have seen a lot of full-length animation films, including most of Bakshi's films (worst version of Tolkien's work - the award goes to Ralph Bakshi) and this one is an absolute delight. The Bolero scene surpasses that Ice Age film big-time. Enough kvelling. I can't type anymore because I hate this ergonomic keyboard.