The film’s final shot is one of the most striking and beautiful moments in animated film history.

| Jun 18, 2024

Disney starts to reach for a higher thesis but ultimately falls short, they will eventually find the nuance they clearly were looking for here in future films, but sadly Bambi just starts to scratch the surface of what they were ultimately looking for.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 28, 2022

Even though Bambi is sanitized for a younger audience, the film itself is still one of the best animated movies of all time.

| Dec 27, 2021

Is it absolutely monstrous not to consider the beloved Bambi one of the very best of Disney's 50-plus animated features?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 16, 2021

Full of poignancy, excitement, and considerable satisfaction.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 7, 2020

Bambi (1942) is one of the most appealing, gracefully-told, lushly-beautiful, and popular Disney animated film classics. It was based on Austrian writer Felix Salten's 1923 storybook Bambi, A Life in the Woods.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 28, 2019

Bambi is an artistic creation of indescribable beauty. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 16, 2019

It's a beautiful art piece with great music and enough of a plot and characters to be tolerable, even enjoyable.

| Original Score: B | May 9, 2019

While its scarce plot may prevent it from being one of Disney's most memorable animated classics, Bambi remains an endearing and beloved film thanks to the delightful characters, the beautiful animation, and the marvelous music.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2017

The bogus art which has been creeping into the Disney pictures is really hammered at you in this one.

| Jun 16, 2016

Feels so much more like an animation experiment than it does a movie.

| Jul 3, 2013

It's not just Bambi's mother - I'll pause while you wipe that tear - but the film's revelation that idylls don't really exist.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 11, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 23, 2011

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

| Mar 17, 2011

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]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 8, 2011

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.

| Original Score: A | Mar 7, 2011

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

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 3, 2011

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

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 26, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 2, 2009

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

| Original Score: A+ | Oct 29, 2008