Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

mary I first time find out for Dali when I was 10,I was in gallery full of his paintings.I was pretty confused because I habituate on pictures I know what they mean.So,it was my first touch with abstract art. And today,I see animated film full of Dali imaginary.I was lost for words.In the first hand i was confused,from first scene,but positive confused.Confused just like when I watched the pictures.I can not tell for sure what is film about.It is like poetic song,everybody see it in another way.There is some nudity in film so,it is for adults.I can tell the film is dramatic and beautifully animated.I will never forgot it. It is worth to see. 10/10

Robert Reynolds This short was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short. There will be spoilers ahead: This is the latter-day result of an unlikely collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney begun in the 1940s and ultimately set aside and forgotten until rediscovered by Roy Disney and completed almost 60 years later.It's impossible to mistake this as anything but a collaboration between Dali and Disney. While it reminds one of Fantasia, it's likely that the short would have disappeared without a trace had it been completed as originally scheduled. If anything, it's even more esoteric and artistically inclined than Fantasia and Fantasia was widely seen as a flop. As a short it would have set the studio back far less financially than Fantasia did as a feature, but Disney was already starting to have trouble making back the costs of its shorts because Walt Disney had such high expectations from even his shorts. That financial pressure was part of what put this in mothballs in the first place.It would have been interesting to see what the Disney studios would have made of this in the late 1940s-early 1950s. As it is now, this looks for all the world like a series of Dali paintings brought to life and set in motion. Half melted objects, a likeness or two of Dali and other Dali trademarks given the Disney touch make this a fascinating curiosity and the quality of the backgrounds and character designs is magnificent.This is available on the Blu-Ray release of Fantasia 2000 and looks beautiful, particularly in HD. There's also a feature length documentary on the project on the same disc which I haven't seen but which looks to be very good itself. Well worth watching. Most recommended.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) While the name Dominique Monfery is probably not known to many, the people this short film do not only include one of Walt Disney's nephews, but also the world-famous artist Salvador Dalí, who wrote it right after World War 2. And his contribution is easy to see. I am not a great expert when it comes to Dalí, but everybody knows "The Persistence of Memory", the famous Dalí painting with the melting clocks. And we don't even have to watch the film till the part where these melting clocks appear in order to identify him as way earlier, right after the start, there is already a scene which has melting faces that seem incredibly dalíesque. We also see ants crawling out of an open hand wound, a symbolism already used by Dalí much earlier when he wrote the script for the notable 1920s surreal movie "Un chien andalou".Just like the aforementioned, this animated short film here doesn't really have a factual storyline apart from the fact that it centers on a beautiful black-haired woman from start to finish. What it does have, however, is great music (Armando Dominguez' rendition of "Destino" is a thing of beauty, especially with English lyrics towards the end.) and excellent animation. The over 50 year wait for its completion was very well worth it. I'd say the film it lost the Oscar to that year, Harvey Krumpet, is still a bit better, but the nomination was very well-deserved.

buckeyeboy-1 I had a chance to view the Destino DVD and was highly impressed. I was impressed so much that I bought a suite (set of 6)from the time line done by Dali and Disney. The DVD captures the true surrealism that Disney (who would ever think of a talking mouse) and Dali is famous for. These two individuals that one would think we be as far apart in personalities would actually come up with one the best short films and some of the most treasured art work ever created. I am truly blessed to have seen such a work of art and truly honored to own a piece of history. If you have the chance to see the DVD or own some of the art work that has come out of this experience, jump on it. It is very rare that two famous individuals with such diverse backgrounds collaborate on such a unique piece.