I love the original Bambi and Felix Salten's gorgeous novel, Bambi: A Life In the Woods, though they are very different. Though the original glosses over many aspects of the book, it still keeps the feel, mostly through the animation and music.
I had high hopes for this 'midquel' and one of the things I did like was Ronno's introduction as a character, though I did not like the character himself. He is in the book and the movie never fully explained the battle between he and Bambi and the original; we assume he is simply another buck vying for Faline when in fact he and Bambi do have a rivalry which goes back. While we are shown that Ronno is a little older than Bambi in this movie, in fact he's a bit older than that- more around the age of the young adult bucks we see in the forest stampede scenes, at the same time Bambi is a fawn. But that would make courting Faline inappropriate for most audiences today I suppose, so no matter. The character himself looks (right down to the torn ear) like Scar's son from Lion King 2 which is disappointing.
Every animal in this movie talks WAY too much. Disney seems to think that children can only be captivated now by movies with tons of dialogue when classics like The Fox and the Hound, Bambi, Dumbo, and 101 Dalmations show us that this is not so! I think every person at Disney should sit down and watch every animal-centric Disney movie from before 1980 before they attempt to create a new one.
The animation was nice, but I think it could have been made to fit the original more closely- IE no obviously CGI'd snowflakes, rain or leaves.
Ultimately it's too short as well. Just when you start to feel immersed, you're watching the credits.
The flashback was the most beautiful part of the film, to me.
I had high hopes for this 'midquel' and one of the things I did like was Ronno's introduction as a character, though I did not like the character himself. He is in the book and the movie never fully explained the battle between he and Bambi and the original; we assume he is simply another buck vying for Faline when in fact he and Bambi do have a rivalry which goes back. While we are shown that Ronno is a little older than Bambi in this movie, in fact he's a bit older than that- more around the age of the young adult bucks we see in the forest stampede scenes, at the same time Bambi is a fawn. But that would make courting Faline inappropriate for most audiences today I suppose, so no matter. The character himself looks (right down to the torn ear) like Scar's son from Lion King 2 which is disappointing.
Every animal in this movie talks WAY too much. Disney seems to think that children can only be captivated now by movies with tons of dialogue when classics like The Fox and the Hound, Bambi, Dumbo, and 101 Dalmations show us that this is not so! I think every person at Disney should sit down and watch every animal-centric Disney movie from before 1980 before they attempt to create a new one.
The animation was nice, but I think it could have been made to fit the original more closely- IE no obviously CGI'd snowflakes, rain or leaves.
Ultimately it's too short as well. Just when you start to feel immersed, you're watching the credits.
The flashback was the most beautiful part of the film, to me.