Fantasia 2000 is a sequel to Disney's classic music animated film Fantasia of 1940, which consists of eight music short films. Besides Duca's The Magician's Apprentice, these films include Bach's Tokata and Fugue in D minor, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Stravinsky's Sacrifice to Spring, Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and Schubert's The Virgin Mary ... Watching this film is like listening to a symphony, a completely artistic animated film, with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as the opening.