Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #837 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-02-14
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 69 minutes

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

Synopsis
In Disney's spectacularly animated forest fable, a fawn named Bambi is born, destined to become Prince of the Forest. He soon befriends other woodland creatures such as Flower, a bashful skunk, and Thumper, an outgoing rabbit. As the years pass, they encounter a number of life's lessons in the woods, including the death of Bambi's mother at the hands of hunters. Eventually, Bambi comes of age, completing the cycle of life and taking his father's place. Based on the classic novel by Felix Salten, Bambi demonstrates the strength of family values and camaraderie. Director David Hand adds a mixture of great songs and life-like backgrounds to make this early Disney film an unforgettable film classic for all ages.

Customer Reviews

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*ckhead is the greatest song ever made, i go jamming to it every night in my room by my lonesome.

the words are great, "ur a d*ckhead, and i hate u and i wish u were dead, u can GO and suck ur mamas...", oops the rest is too explicit to mention.

but this amazing album, the greatest album ever made apart from paris hiltons.

buy this and paris hiltons album.

fantastic albums.

which everybody should love.

One star dropped for the deleted line
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 figure.

Your mother can't be with you any more
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 innovative for the time traumatized many children. To this day you hear it is a classic "but I can not bring my self to watch it." How ever this presentation is more of a symphony based on the characters from the story in the Disney tradition.

Many of the uncredited voices were of famous people; many of them were famous after this film was made.