Here are some reasons why Bambi is the greatest animated film ever made:

- It shows life in all its little imperfections and grand tribulations.

- The amount of joy, humor, tears, and discovery to be found within its tight 70 minute run-time is indescribably beautiful.

- The characters are layered, fully-formed, and crafted to perfection.

-The animation is second to none, showcasing subtle details and landscapes that blow me away after every viewing.

- The classic themes are as potent and wonderful as ever.

- A scene involving death is the most emotional scene in the history of animated cinema.

- The music is breathtaking, especially in the "April Shower" sequence.

- This movie has Thumper. Enough said.

A firm favourite of my oldest daughter of seven. She has been harassing her four year old brother about watching it. Today he caved and asked if they could watch it.

There is something uniquely magical about what happens to kids' faces while watching these gorgeous hand drawn images. A smile, a frown, fear, but always eyes wide open flicking across the screen trying to take everything in and actually succeeding as the images are fluid and calm. They were transfixed for the entire seventy minutes.

Afterwards, as per usual, my daughter started a reenactment of the entire thing. When I asked my son what he thought he said just two words.

'People suck.'

Truer words have rarely been spoken

100

The greatest animated film in the history of the medium is now out of the Disney Vault. Let's celebrate.

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Maybe my favorite Disney movie. Just staggeringly beautiful to look at, and so much more delicate and subtle and unsentimental a “circle of life” film than The Lion King would be half a century later. Death is a part of life, kids. That was the lesson this morning.

Woah! This one actually caught me by surprise. From the start, this is probably the most gorgeous "classic" Disney film I've seen so far. The colors and styles of the forest and grassy environments make every shot look like a freaking painting!

As for the rest of the movie, I actually loved this a lot! The music actually hit the tone of the environments and feelings the story was trying to convey, specifically the complete silence during some moments. I also found the story to be really cool! The use of the four seasons was a brilliant move to tell a story about life and growing up under the threat of mankind, and I honestly didn't expect them to do a time jump like they did. All the characters are fully fleshed out too, especially Thumper and Flower. It's a movie that's structured perfectly within its quick 70-minute runtime.

Bambi is excellent!

thought this would soothe me but it felt too close to the reality of the world. i am bambi and bambi’s mom at the same time. agh.

This movie is fine but it doesn't have much of a plot apart from the changes in season. This isn't one I have a huge amount of nostalgia for, but I can see why people would. It's a cute movie and would be great for little kids.

Hey howdy,
A lot of people say that Lion King was a direct rip off of the Japanese animated film Kimba the White Lion, but upon a rewatch of this I realized that it’s also almost the same story as this one. A prince is born, all the animals gather around it, when the prince is still young the prominent parental figure dies due the incompetence of the prince, there’s then a cut to when the prince is then an adult, he fall in love with his childhood friend, there is a big fire and then it ends with him become king with the birth of his next of kin. I guess there really are only a set number of stories to be told.
The reason I rewatched this is because I got a signed copy of it in the mail signed by none other than Sanspants Radio founder and all-around legend @jlzammit. Thanks mate!

Adorable.

this poor fucking deer and his traumas :(

but

they call me Thumper!!!!

La scarsa presenza di scene memorabili come avviene negli altri classici Disney degli stessi anni lo rende uno dei più deboli rispetto alla sua concorrenza. Nonostante questo, resta un classico degno di questo nome, con una storia intensa e toccante.

so so so lovely

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