Fantasia

1940 · Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen, David D. Hand, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe Jr., T. Hee, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson · Animated musical anthology

Acceptable with guidance. Age: 6+. A Catholic review of this movie for parents.

Our review

The last ten minutes are why Catholic parents should care. A demon rules the night until one church bell sounds. He shrinks back, and pilgrims walk toward dawn singing the Ave Maria. Evil is real here and it loses. The reservation: that demon sequence frightens small children, and the dinosaur segment tells the story of life with no Creator in it.

For parents

A-I, but preview Night on Bald Mountain for children under eight. The Pastoral part has stylized bare-chested centaur women. Say plainly that God made the world, however long it took. Ask: what made the demon stop? Why did Mickey get in trouble with the sorcerer's hat?

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