Boobirt
Stylish but barely mediocre overall
GurlyIamBeach
Instant Favorite.
Borgarkeri
A bit overrated, but still an amazing film
Fulke
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Matt Greene
I wish Bambi was either more poetic or more of a narrative. As it is, it moves between the two of them, and is good at both, but doesn't find the real balance between them. The death is incredibly sad and really holds up, but the transition away from it is pretty abrupt...and that is just a microcosm of the whole movie. Still, the individual parts are great: the animation, the characters, the humble humor, the pathos.
jonconnormustlive-46298
Bambi follows a young deer from his birth, we watch as he grows up through the trials of his childhood.
It seems like a lot to pack into this films short runtime, but it manages to make it look effortless.
Bambi is a gorgeously animated film. It bounces between light humorous scenes to dark dramatic moments with ease.
It's driven forward by it's colorful cast of characters, charming songs and musical score, and it's tension filled moments of peril.
It's rare that a movie can still be considered so great and worthwhile for audiences 75 years after its initial release but Bambi is just that good.Bambi is an integral piece of the Walt Disney Animated Studios canon.
Alyssa Black (Aly200)
The movie that made a modern retelling like "The Lion King" possible, Disney tugged on the heartstrings of so many audience members back in 1942 and continues to do so.The story of an adorable fawn and his friends during the four seasons is so simple yet metaphorical for the circle of life. Bambi learns various valuable life lessons throughout the film ranging from the importance of friendship, romance and the saddest lesson: death. The characters of the film are so lovable and diverse from the naivety of Bambi as a youth into his maturity as a young buck, the free-spirited and loyal bunny rabbit Thumper, shy and cute Flower the skunk, pretty and soft- spoken Faline who Bambi falls in love as an adult, wise and gone-too-soon Mother who begins to teach Bambi what life will have in store, the also wise but crotchety Friend Owl who tells the three best friends about romance and finally the absentee yet brave Great Prince of the Forest who is Bambi's father and saves his son near the film's fiery end (the Great Prince also raised Bambi following Mother's death as seen in the midquel 'Bambi 2'). Disney's animation is breathtaking from its hand painted characters to lavishly painted backgrounds and the innovated multi-plane camera developed by the Disney company that has been instrumental to other film mediums outside of animation. The animators developed the realistic characters by studying actual deer, rabbits and skunks among other creatures lending to believable woodland critters rather than overly cartoony caricatures.
Adam Peters
(68%) One of Disney's better remembered early classics plays very much a similar note to one of their more recent classics "The lion king", as the circle of life is the overriding theme here. Although this is much more of a simple plotted watch in which tells its basic, yet captivating tale of nature against the odds placed by man. Some have tamely attacked the negative depiction of man as being too simplistic, too black and white; but the fact remains this is very much taken from the view of a wild deer so how else exactly can man be shown as anything other than a cold killer with a smoking gun is hard to imagine. This isn't one of my top pick Disney outings as I favour their more light-heated features, but I will admit that the animation is fantastic and it has aged very well over the decades becoming more than a little bit timeless.
