Bambi Reviews

With an emphasis on character development over plot, the film isn't quite as accessible as some of Disney's more recent efforts...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

There are two ways to look at Bambi/i>: as a museum piece or as entertainment. Focus on the latter and the film unravels.

| Original Score: C+

Some classic sequences, but also too much Disney deer kitsch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

I had forgotten how utterly, astonishingly beautiful the film is.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

"Look, Ma! No fungus and no moss-syphilis!"

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Bambi is . . . MALE?!

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People just really like cuddly animals, and there's not a dang thing you can do about it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Short and to the point, Bambi is an enduring classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

The fun and fear, the silliness and heartbreak, are taken to vivid extremes by Walt's entwining of high art and what snobs will always deride as Disney-kitsch.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The circle of life is shown to dramatic effect in the changes of the seasons, and the growing of the animals from toddlers, to adolescents, to adults.

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Overrated by people who never read the original book and think kids' voices with speech impediments are cute.

| Original Score: 2/5

It still brings tears to my eyes. Disney at its finest.

| Original Score: 5/5

In colors that would surprise even the spectrum itself, Disney's cartoon craftsmen have re-created a woodland that shimmers and glows and darkens altogether magically.

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... introduced us to a Hobbesian world where bad things could happen to the adorable, and sent thousands of children blubbering into theater lobbies around the world.

Full Review | Original Score: B

sad beyond belief, but lovely to look at and listen to

| Original Score: 4/5

Beautiful in every sense of the word. I consider it the finest Disney Classic out there.

| Original Score: 5/5

A brilliantly animated, heart-tugging parable.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Bambi is probably one of the best movies ever made, if not THE best.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

| Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 4/5