I don't suppose there's a way to manually disable the screen-rotating animation, or is there?

This way, 80% of the game is just waiting for the transition, which is pathetic.
Seemed like the best of the series (especially since there's no subtitles for DF2, also pathetic), but I'm not gonna waste time waiting around all the time, it's just boring as hell.

I agree, and short of inducing nausea does nothing for gameplay except make it clunky and tiresome