January 28, 2021
Make Mine Music (1946) ** 1/2
DVD
Disney animation
Make Mine Music is the first partial disappointment of the Disney animation films. It was another anthology film, after Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros, and it is not on Disney +, so I had to pay cash money for the DVD, like a chump!
It is like a sequel to Fantasia, except for using popular music to animate scenes to instead of classical. Some of them work better than others, the songs with more story to them, generally, though my favourite was just bobby soxers and hepcats dancing at the malt shop to Benny Goodman’s All the Cats Join In.
Also good were the Andrews Sisters singing about hats in love, Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet, and, of course, good old Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Sterling Holloway. I had forgotten that I had this version on record album as a kid, until I heard his narration begin. Then there was the funny and sad, The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met, which, they emphasized, had Nelson Eddy singing ALL of the roles, which made sense when you realize that meant he was also singing the female roles!
It is worth seeing if you are a completist, like me, but otherwise, not a heartbreaker to miss. 
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