Bambi

RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: August 21, 1942

7.7	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 97 Ratings

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FilipeNetoSep 14, 2021

Throughout my childhood, I never had the opportunity to see this film, partly because it was never my first choice among the films I could choose. Now, as an adult, I decided to see it. The story is very lightly based on a tale about Bambi, aThroughout my childhood, I never had the opportunity to see this film, partly because it was never my first choice among the films I could choose. Now, as an adult, I decided to see it. The story is very lightly based on a tale about Bambi, a deer who will go through several adventures until he manages to become Prince of the Forest, like his father. The original narrative is, it must be said, much more adult, with betrayals, murders and violence. Of course, Walt Disney stripped it of all that content and turned it into a heartwarming children's story of growth and maturation. It is undoubtedly a good movie, but for its characteristics and sensibility it has been neglected by parents when the task is to find a good movie for their boy children. There is some prejudice here to be fought.

There is no way to deny this film the status of a classic. It has been a companion to more than a generation of kids, one of those movies that kids can see but that parents, grandparents and great-grandparents also saw when they were kids too. It is also one of the films that marks the golden age of Disney Studios and the advent of animated, colorful and brilliantly executed cinema. I think most people will agree that, even so, the movie loses favors for other films, like "Snow White", "Pinocchio" or the much more recent "Lion King". This happens, in my perspective, because of the lack of a story to tell: the film has such a sparse and simplistic narrative that it is difficult to handle a feature film, and there are several sequences and scenes that seem to be there simply to occupy spaces and length, and looking cute.

The film features a series of characters, overwhelmingly friendly to the audience and children, starting with the trio of friends Bambi, Tumper and Flower. The biggest problem I felt with these characters is Flower's more than clear sexual ambivalence, being one of the Disney characters where this is most evident: it's clearly a male who has a female name and behaves like a girl, in addition to seem to have a romantic interest in Bambi. Consequences, perhaps, of a time when accepting homosexuality was something that was absolutely out of the question. Bambi's father is a dark, distant figure, and the mother is caring and touching, his death being - I'm not spoiling, everyone knows this is one of the most intense and dramatic moments in the film - perhaps one of the moments in that Disney turned out to be more adult in its early days. The villain, the human, is left out, but we see what he does to nature.

Technically, the film is masterful. The animation is wonderfully well done and is even more praiseworthy when we think that everything was hand drawn and colored, without any digital resources or gimmicks. The safe line, the smooth way in which the scenes follow each other, the confidence with which Disney prepared this film of his are lessons to learn for anyone who wants to make an animated film. The soundtrack also suits the film very well, with the use of off-camera singers, that is, songs that are not sung by the film's characters, something new and refreshing for the films the studio made at this time.… Expand

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Sosmooth1982Apr 24, 2023

Good for Children and sad too. I personally don't like the movie. I think it's boring and always makes me fal asleep.

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