Bambi

Name: Bambi
Genre: Drama, Animation, Family
Released: August 21, 1942
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 91
Cast: Bobette Audrey, Dolyn Bramston Cook, Hardie Albright, Janet Chapman, Jeanne Christy

1942

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Universal acclaim based on 16 Critic Reviews

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Movie Details & Credits

RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: August 21, 1942 | Approved

Starring: Bobette Audrey, Dolyn Bramston Cook, Hardie Albright, Janet Chapman, Jeanne Christy, Marion Darlington, Peter Behn, Stan Alexander, Thelma Boardman, Tim Davis

Summary: The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

Director: Bill Roberts and David Hand and Graham Heid and James Algar and Norman Wright and Paul Satterfield and Samuel Armstrong

Genre(s): Drama, Animation, Family

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 70 min

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

The adroit mixture of pantheism and sentimentality continues to be sufficiently timeless to allow Disney's heirs to recycle this picture endlessly. Read full review

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Empire Andrew Osmond

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. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Michael Scheinfeld

This honest, non-sugar-coated approach to the hard truths of life, however, is what gives Bambi its lasting emotional power, and makes it stand apart, not only from Disney's cartoons, but from virtually all others as well. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Bambi is gem-like in its reflection of the color and movement of sylvan plant and animal life. The transcription of nature in its moments of turbulence and peace heightens the brilliance of the canvas. The story [by Felix Salten] is full of tenderness and the characters tickle the heart. Read full review

R.L. Shaffer

Despite its age, Bambi continues to dazzle and amaze. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Edward Plumb's background music is expertly keyed into the production, but none of Bambi's four songs is notable. Some innovations are. For the first time, Disney has done his backgrounds in oils instead of watercolors. The result is striking. The russet reds, browns, bright yellows, make autumn look like autumn. Each season has a special color impact. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Bambi is not a great film. The film has a few memorably winning sequences which have become part of Disney pantheon. But in between these sequences are fairly dullish stretches of Disney kitsch, with too-cuddly animals in extreme states of too-cute behavior; there’s also a song score which is among Disney’s least interesting. Read full review

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SeyeerGame

Jan 6, 2022

знаете... даже курт кобейн назвал свою песню в честь фильма бемби... правда она называлась babmi слаугтер... но это уже другое))

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JPK

Dec 9, 2019

Terrific
Bambi is a film that really shows how damn dark Disney can get with the scene where I think you quite obviously know what I’m talking about..