*Okay – "Destino" was just a blue-sky effort from 1946, a Dali-Disney collaborative project that was never produced. Not until it was reinvented and released as this pastiche-effort in 2003.
*But boy, is this thing ever weird. It really and truly feels like it comes from some radically different version of the 20th century. Maybe one where Andre Breton is prime minister of France. This is mainstream commercial American Surrealism. It's like Norman Rockwell on acid.
*It's that schlocky Disney old-fashioned animation that makes this piece so compelling... not just that it's visionary, but that it's from a lost counterfactual world.
