Bambi: Critic Reviews

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.

This animated feature based on Felix Salten's book about the coming of age of a fawn and his various forest friends (including the beloved Thumper) does convey some of the primal emotional power of Disney's features during this period.

The glow and texture of the Disney brush reach new heights, especially in the treatment of a summer thunderstorm and a raging snowstorm.

For the first time, Disney has done his backgrounds in oils instead of watercolors. The result is striking.

The story, while classic in nature, is a bit thin, but Bambi is a breathtaking, jaw-dropping showcase of the ingenuity and genius of Disney animators.

Arguably Disney's greatest masterpiece, this sophisticated animation is one that continues to delight audiences of all ages

It would be easy to be cynical about Bambi, the Walt Disney-produced film that launched a thousand anthropomorphic animal movies. But its pre-ironic simplicity has, in many ways, only improved with age. [Blu-ray]

Even Daryl Hall would have to admit this is one of the finest animated features committed to film, produced and packaged during Walt Disney's ballsiest years of control.

the animated film as pastoral poem, as beautiful a depiction of the natural world as one could imagine

Animation that couldn't seem more real, even if it were made today with motion-capture dots plastered all over a baby deer.

Vies only with Pinocchio as the most technically accomplished work of animation to come from the studio's Golden Age... the last gasp of a maturity and gravity that would immediately disappear from Disney's features.

One of the most timeless and universal coming-of-age films ever, Bambi ranks with the very greatest of Disney's classic masterpieces.

A beautifully realised milestone in children's animation that balances outright sentiment with gentle wit, and negotiates its darker moments with skill.

Still a fantastic fable with some excellent animation and a great story

In 1942, the emotional scene in which Bambi's mother is killed by hunters was controversial: Some critics charged that it traumatized young children while defenders claimed that it was honest, realistic, and less graphic than its depiction in the book.

Walt himself would have been proud of the two-disc special edition, which restores the Disney classic back to its original museum-quality luster ... maybe the only missing extra in this treasure is Bambi Meets Godzilla.

From Disney's richest period, interleaving splendid animation with vulgar Americana.

Fawn-dly revered Disney classic.

Among the best Disney animated features

What has been lost in the 60-plus years since its intial release is what a watershed work Bambi was for its time.

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

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

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

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

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