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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 11

  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.

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★½ 50

  Didn't think there was enough story content or compelling character moments to sustain a feature film sadly. If this was a short film I'd love it

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 6

  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

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  Review by Scott Tobias ★★★★★ 1

  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.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black ★★★★½ 6

  They're deer, rabbits, skunks, squirrels, owls.

  This is rather astonishing. Barring a few notable exceptions, most animal-centered films go out of their way to humanize the animals, to show them as living in a human-like society with flourishes of animal-like behavior. Here, the film emphasizes that the world they live in is that of animals*. They do this by rooting the narrative in animal behavior (hibernation, for instance) and more importantly by contrasting them with the villain Man. Making humans the villain clearly delineates this world between animal and human.

  This is important. What would be seen as a neglectful father or a sexist romance is instead just animal behavior. You can see distinctions between types of animals and their…

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  Review by Quintin 📽 Philipson ★★★ 1

  My favorite part of the film is when Bambi, Thumper, and Flower meet up after winter.

  Thumper: "Bros!!!! That winter was brutal, how are my homies?"
  Bambi: "My ma died but now my bros are here so it's all good."
  Flower: "This is the squad! No girls can tear us apart!"
  Thumper: "No way! Bros before hoes am I right?"

  A female skunk comes in.

  Flower: "Oh damn! Boys it was great seeing you, I'll see you next spring my dudes!"
  Thumper: "Flower is so weak dawg, leaving us for a woman!"

  A female rabbit comes in.

  Thumper: "Gotta go my hombre, this girl wants a taste of my carrot!"

  A female deer comes in.

  Bambi: "No! I'm a lone…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 6

  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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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★★

  (Walt Disney Animated Series)

  Classic Disney's most masterfully simplistic film.

  “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”

  I have no idea how I missed seeing this as a kid, but it is interesting to see it from a fresh perspective as an adult. Bambi is Disney's 5th animated feature and tells the story of life in the forest for a young deer. Over the course of just an hour and a few minutes, this family film does a great job of showing Bambi's growth from learning to walk and talk, to standing by his father's side as a mature young adult deer.

  I was really impressed by how well the animation still holds up, especially with…

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  Review by ☆ Sophie ☆ ★★½ 11

  Disney Animation Ranked 🤙🏼

  Bambi: a child's introduction to death. This film was adorable, wholesome, but traumatic if you are a child. I understand now why my mother never put this on for us to watch as kids. I have no nostalgia for this film; therefore, no connection. It was very mediocre to me when watching. I wish I had seen this during the first ten years of my life. The music was beautiful, and the animation is stunning and head of its time. I will say that the score is perhaps one of the best aspects of the film. It tells the story of Bambi more than the animation itself, in my opinion.

  Some may call the simplicity of the…

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  Review by Rachel 🧡💚💙 3

  Bambi on ice is me trying to just live my day to day life

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★½

  Bambi continues to endure primarily because of its quality of animation and being arguably the first time animators attempted to depict realism through the medium. It arrived as the fifth Disney film in as many years, shortly after the groundbreaking work initiated by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was spectacularly proceeded with Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo.

  It somewhat resembles a moving picture book as it tells the story of Bambi (voiced by Donnie Dunagan), a young deer growing up in a large forest. He spends his days with his mother and friends: a rabbit Thumper (voiced by Peter Behn, who walks off with his scenes) and a skunk named Flower (voiced by Stan Alexander). It's very much of…

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  Review by Brenden 🦆 ★★½ 8

  My stupid sister mad me watch this. She is a little baby idiot who likes kids movies about animated dears and talking babies. It's super dumb, she deosnt even like adult movies. When I was a baby I also liked these movies but she should just grow up, I'm twelve now an I watch movies with death and swearing words. She is 10 and deosnt even watch movies with guns. So stupid