Bambi (1942)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

When I was younger, I watched this movie all the time. The animation and story are great and its very entertaining. I'd recommend watching this one.

Ah Bambi, what can one say about this cute innocent tale of a little deer growing up in the woods and then having his mother die?.....well OK, we all know about that on first glance, but what we also remember about Bambi is the artistry. The way the movie depicts nature is just stunning, from the trees, to the ground, to the meadows, to the fields, to the grass, to the water, to just about everything else. It really creates a sense of beauteous wonder that you don't find too often in animation. Adding on to the gorgeous backgrounds and settings, the animation on the animals are phenomenal, and considering how hard animals are to animate (let alone draw), the movements are flawless and the designs look cute enough without being nauseating, fitting the movie's feel of cute sentimentality. But when the movie gets dark, so do the lighting and shadows, and it executes both incredibly well.Storywise, it's basically just about a deer growing up in the woods, and that's it. Simple enough, yet honestly, that's why the movie works. Sometimes just seeing someone live from childhood to adulthood in a setting is interesting and captivating enough for a viewing experience. We were all children once in our lives, and this movie captures childhood really well by showing how innocent life was before we had to grow up. But then the death of Bambi's mother came, which has scared many for life, but it also taught folks that we must cherish the things we love, because nothing lasts forever, and it's important to hold on to them even when they pass on.Overall, while the movie is mostly cutesy in the first half, Bambi still stands the test of time for its Luscious artistry, charming innocence, hauntingly soothing score, and its important lesson to be warned that not everything you love for last forever. If you have kids, let them grow up with this so they can remember how cute it is, as well as heartbreaking.

the strange fact is to be the same. at each age. if you see it after a long time. not sentimental or dramatic or scene for memorable characters. not as a pink lesson about the universe of forest. but as a well done work. as the eulogy of simplicity. or as parable. it is an animation who impress for its technique first. then, for its subtle, convincing simplicity. a parable about grow up. a lovely portrait of friendship. and one of the heroes who could be the perfect guide to discover the essence of life. a film who remains long time in memory of the viewer. as small crumbs about a heroic story. maybe as refuge. and good demand to see, after a period, again. as your face in mirror. not for admire. but for as weigh in of sensitivity.

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.