How sad is this?

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

... 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.

Fantasia for adults.Fantasia for adults who like seventies animation, and don't mind some Italian sub-titles.Worth the time only if your interested in animation. It's themes and images are much more adult than "Fantasia", and it's tone more ironic and risqué, in a mild self mocking way.Allegro Non Troppo, does have it's beautiful sequences, obviously the musics good (Stravinksky again), and a few times one of the live action moments may have even cracked a smile on my face. But this is a difficult film to find, and though I enjoyed it, was more effort than it was worth.

TROPPO is a corrective to Disney's FANTASIA, a dark satire from Italy that even cattily refers to the Disney classic. I am not sure what inspired the filmmakers to churn out a Disney spoof so many years after the fact (FANTASIA was first released in the 1940s, TROPPO in 1977), but TROPPO is great fun for adult audiences. Among other episodes, a horny faun lustily pursues naked young maidens to the strains of Debussy and sludge at the bottom of a liquor bottle evolves into some pretty nasty lifeforms to the strains of Stravinsky. The live action interludes are far less interesting, shot in black and white and badly dubbed and acted, although the actress playing the mute scrubwoman is breathtaking.

I first saw Allegro non Troppo around 1985 in a VHS copy. I truly loved the film, since it was so different from standard Disney fare. Even the B&W interludes seemed wacky and added to the overall viewing pleasure.Specially great clips were the Sibelius Valse Triste and the Firebird Suite.Well, I recently bought the DVD version from this movie (after joining a list in Amazon, so they would edit a DVD version of the film) and I must say that this version is GREAT. Not only is the original film complete and in an excellent version, but there's also 10 additional Bruno Bozzetto shorts plus a documentary about him and his filmmaking.So I really got a wonderful deal and would truly reccommend this DVD to all animation fans.9/10!