Bambi
3 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
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Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
What critics thought
Bambi landed to genuinely mixed notices in 1942, with critics objecting to its somber realism and absence of the comic fantasy Disney had made his trademark — a sharp contrast to the near-universal admiration the film has earned in the decades since. What divided early reviewers was precisely what later audiences came to treasure: the emotional severity, the naturalistic rendering of the forest, and the unsentimental treatment of death. The gap between its original reception and its current reputation is one of the more striking reversals in Disney's catalog.
“Bambi is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant”
Manny Farber·The New Republic
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorDavid Hand
StarringDonnie Dunagan, Peter Behn, Stan Alexander, Cammie King, Will Wright
ComposerFrank Churchill, Edward H. Plumb
Bambi
3 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
What critics thought
Bambi landed to genuinely mixed notices in 1942, with critics objecting to its somber realism and absence of the comic fantasy Disney had made his trademark — a sharp contrast to the near-universal admiration the film has earned in the decades since. What divided early reviewers was precisely what later audiences came to treasure: the emotional severity, the naturalistic rendering of the forest, and the unsentimental treatment of death. The gap between its original reception and its current reputation is one of the more striking reversals in Disney's catalog.
“Bambi is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant”
Manny Farber·The New Republic
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorDavid Hand
StarringDonnie Dunagan, Peter Behn, Stan Alexander, Cammie King, Will Wright
ComposerFrank Churchill, Edward H. Plumb
Rent/Purchase