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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5017188813631
Format: Animated, Box set, PAL
Label: Walt Disney Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 14, 2005
Running Time: 69 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
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Editorial Review:Amazon.co.uk Review:It always comes up when people are comparing their most traumatic movie experiences: "the death of Bambi's mother," a recollection that can bring a shudder to even the most jaded filmgoer. That primal separation (which is no less stunning for happening off-screen) is the centerpiece of
Bambi, Walt Disney's 1942 animated classic, but it is by no means the only bold stroke in the film. In its swift but somehow leisurely 69 minutes,
Bambi covers a year in the life of a young deer. But in a bigger way, it measures the life cycle itself, from birth to adulthood, from childhood's freedom to grown-up responsibility. All of this is rendered in cheeky, fleet-footed style--the movie doesn't lecture, or make you feel you're being fed something that's good for you. The animation is miraculous, a lush forest in which nature is a constantly unfolding miracle (even in a spectacular fire, or those dark moments when "man was in the forest"). There are probably easier animals to draw than a young deer, and the Disney animators set themselves a challenge with Bambi's wobbly glide across an ice-covered lake, his spindly legs akimbo; but the sequence is effortless and charming. If Bambi himself is just a bit dull--such is the fate of an Everydeer--his rabbit sidekick Thumper and a skunk named Flower more than make up for it. Many of the early Disney features have their share of lyrical moments and universal truths, but
Bambi is so simple, so pure, it's almost transparent. You might borrow a phrase from Thumper and say it's downright twitterpated.
--Robert Horton
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Great film, beautiful transfer, all of that, but the saddest part of this film, to me, is not Bambi's mother being shot, but the fact that at some point in this film's history a line has been removed from that scene. The stag's line used to be "Your mother can't be with you any more...man has taken her away." The second half of that line has been missing for some years, and is not reinstated here. So are Disney mutilating their own films now to placate the gun lobbyists? As they say over there, go ...
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Designed in the Disney hay-day of great movies like "Fantasia" and "Song of the South" this shows what animation and great music was and could be now with a little effort.
The story which is a little easer to take than the book chronicles the life of a young prince "Bambi" his friends and how he grew and matured. He transforms through many rights of passage and takes his place in the forest society.
The down side of the story is the demise of Bambi's mother which though ...
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You'd have to have a heart of stone not to fall for Bambi. For me, it's Walt's crowning achievement, and when I watch it today, it still gives the same feeling of nostalgia as it did when I was six years old. In fact, I find even more thought-provoking than I did when I was a child.
But what is it that makes Bambi stand out for me? There's magic here alright, but not the fairy magic like in so many other Disney films. There's humans, but they never appear on screen. I think that I was ...
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Walt Disney's 'Bambi' is a masterpiece. There are moments where you can nitpick, when Bambi's mother died we then go into a joyful scene very suddenly, and some of the songs sound a little dated in their arrangement, but they're good tunes nonetheless.
Bambi is the star, but Thumper isn't far behind with his infectious joie de vivre, and that irritating thumping greeting!
The film isn't twee, as the death of Bambi's mother is dealt with in almost a matter of fact way, when ...
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I used the reviews here to decide whether to buy this DVD or not. Too often I have bought a sequel - straight to DVD - Disney film and found that it has not been a patch on the original.
This film however breaks the mould, it fills in the huge void that was left at the end of the original. Telling the story of how Bambi and his father got on between his mother dying and Bambi being grown up. The animation was superb and the storyline charming. It was full of the usual aaahhh moments, ...
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