Bambi 1942
7.3 / 10
Bambi
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
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Full Cast & Crew
... Young Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
... Young Thumper (voice) (uncredited)
... Young Flower (voice) (uncredited)
... Young Faline (voice) (uncredited)
... Friend Owl (voice) (uncredited)
... Adolescent Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
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See All 4 Reviews23 Jun 2021 by Gimly
The scenery in _Bambi_ is honestly so beautiful. If you were to compare it to the animation I grew up with in the 90s, or even the animation of today, it doesn't just hold up, Bambi's nature scenes actually **outclass** them. Positively gorgeous. But in that spirit of honesty, _Bambi_ is a really boring movie. I think the one and only time I've seen it before I was around 5 or so, that'd be more than two decades ago. Revisiting it again after all these years actually made me appreciate the movie **less**. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
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Release Date:
Aug 14, 1942 (United States)
Run Time:
1hr 9`
MMPA Rating:
G
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United States
Status:
Released
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The scenery in _Bambi_ is honestly so beautiful. If you were to compare it to the animation I grew up with in the 90s, or even the animation of today, it doesn't just hold up, Bambi's nature scenes actually **outclass** them. Positively gorgeous. But in that spirit of honesty, _Bambi_ is a really boring movie. I think the one and only time I've seen it before I was around 5 or so, that'd be more than two decades ago. Revisiting it again after all these years actually made me appreciate the movie **less**. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
Looking back at this film as it was filmed in 1942 by nine freaking directors man... one supervising director David Hand and the rest sequence directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis and Clyde Geronimi. One thing I’d never known before that I learned is that Bambi the film was based on an actual book from 1923 called Bambi, A Life In The Woods written by Austrian author/hunter Felix Salton. Always thought it was straight creation of Disney’s but it’s not, weird. Bambi is a film not just about a young deer and his life in the forest it’s really about the survival of nature against the ever deadly animal known as man killing off animal species and there are some scenes that are really drastic for a supposedly family film but I’ll get to that. At the beginning of the film we meet our very first cast of characters as there’s pink nosed Thumper and A bashful skunk named Flower, friend Owl and the wakening of the forest animals as a new fawn was born to an unnamed Doe whom as we learn is the Son of the Prince of The Forest. The best thing about this animation is the attention to detail of other wild life besides the birth of Bambi, his beginning stammering and early bonding moments with Flower and Thumper. I enjoy Bambi’s moment of falling on the ice it’s cute. Shows that he was still not quite used to his young body enough to be sure of himself. I find the part where we meet his father very regal The Prince has a very stoic prescient and it’s here Bambi gets his first glimpse of the things astute deer do which apparently is rushing at other bucks with antlers with playful bashing of horns. We also get a playful moment with Bambi meeting young Faline a female doe the first female of Bambi’s species as we can see more awkwardness. As an adult I found her teasing a little annoying but as a child I remember the moment fondly as his first meeting a girl moment. Reminds me of The Lion King later with Nala a little bit. Winter comes and at the first sign of the new green grass his mother is alerted of danger and tells Bambi to run for the thicket and never look back... we hear a shot run out and Bambi calling for his mother is a tear jerker... when he runs into his father and he tells him so solemn that his mother won’t be with him ever again this almost ruined the film for me it was a sad, dark moment. There is another moment I enjoy in this film where friend Owl explains to the now grown Bambi, Thumper and Flower about the betwixings of love... just love this part it’s so eerily comical... I’d forgotten that Bambi also ends up getting shot himself but I do remember the fire that man caused and watching how many animals had to move their homes... not to mention the pidgin that got frantic and nervous flew up in the air and got shot in the whole process. In a sense this had the same pivotal message as Lion King as there is a birth/relationship/ rebirth and continuing line of royalty among creatures in the forest. I think this film hold up and find it very beutiful. A decent family film to still watch and enjoy. Thoroughly recommend. Have it four stars as Bambi’s mothers death still bothers me did it have to be so cruel?
"Bambi" is born into an idyllic forest life - his father is the bull stag; his mother an adoring hind and he quickly befriends all the other animals in his gloriously technicolour world. He learns to walk, to talk, even to ice-skate with the help of his bunny pal "Thumper" and he encounters the joys and perils of the seasons from sunny summers to freezing winters too. All is perfect until human beings take an hand - then, alongside his father and his friends, he must face the more brutal realities of life. The animation is gorgeous - simplistic, perhaps, by 2020 standards - but the artistic craftsmanship of the drawings and the score more than adequately compensate for that. There is a minimum of dialogue - the images tell the story, and they do it superbly.
Good for Children and sad too. I personally don't like the movie. I think it's boring and always makes me fal asleep.
Cast & Crew of
Bambi
Directors & Credit Writers
Cast
... Young Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
... Young Thumper (voice) (uncredited)
... Young Flower (voice) (uncredited)
... Young Faline (voice) (uncredited)
... Friend Owl (voice) (uncredited)
... Adolescent Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
... Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
TD
Tim Davis... Adolescent Thumper / Adolescent Flower (voice) (uncredited)
... Adult Thumper (voice) (uncredited)
... Adult Flower (voice) (uncredited)
... Mr. Mole (voice) (uncredited)
... Girl Bunny / Quail Mother / Female Pheasant (voice) (uncredited)
... Bullfrog (voice) (uncredited)
... Birds (voice) (uncredited)
EH
Eddie Holden... Chipmunk (voice)
... Bambi's Mother / Pheasant (voice) (uncredited)
FS
Fred Shields... Great Prince of the Forest (voice) (uncredited)
Produced By
... Producer
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Bambi
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