Talk:Bambi (film)/@comment-33407275-20180503180235

It was a decent movie. Simple cute, but nothing more. They kinda underused Bambi's adulthood(favorite parts in Bambi book or movie. I've seen the movies first though) to the point where it had a near average focus. Resulting in people now mostly knowing him as a fawn and they barely bother putting any adult Bambi merchandise AT ALL. Faithful or not, let me point something out, Bambi was a fawn for like one third of the book and for around two thirds he's an adult(he did lots of intertacting with the Old Prince and in result we see less of Great Prince in this film), but in this movie they drastically stretched it long to make up nearly two thirds(there wasn't even as much detail in his childhood compared to the book it couldn't have been as long as it actually was, but still managed to kill time by adding needless scenes like the rain and ice skating, etc) cutting his adulthood short for one third(making up 20 minutes AKA closing period for any typical movie). They really were focusing to much on his childhood than they had to. But even under around 20 minutes he still had great, but underrated moments like his romance with Faline, fights, becoming a parent himself and taking the Great Prince's place. Heck, now I tend to rather skip the first two thirds just to relive those moments in the last third to take the already overdone(for 75 years)fawn Bambi off my mind. And the same time we got ADULT Simba(a character similar to Bambi) from Lion King given as equal credit as his younger self simply because they did a good amount of focus with his adult version(this movie maybe a bit overhyped, but..Score 1 for Lion King! For giving enough focus to adult Simba and even making merchandise of his adult version!). And honestly, this movie had one of the strangest mixes between what could've rather seemed a slightly grittier animal fantasy and almost out of place cutesy bright colorfulness(slightly more colorful than a preschool show in some parts). It's seem a bit grittier at various when all of a sudden this really colorful stuff is just thrown in. It's like Man of Steel putting in its comic relief elements when at the same time it's a grimmer movie in general. Disney even back in the day is all about being bright, but this is a next level, where the old creators would even pass on these bright traits to their successors who still enherit them up to this day. Honestly, the thing they're good at mostly knowing what to do and what we count on them for is doing great animation with effort, but the effort doesn't always aim at a better direction sometimes. When we're talking about a movie with out of place colorful stuff for it's tone, can be boring to some people and actually has no plot, but at the same it can be bland at some parts, the Bambi movie is actually a film that thrives on being so bad it's good. I can't really complain to much cause I am a Disney fan myself. Not a terrible movie, but nothing more than what the fans make it out to be. I'm honestly not gonna be disuaded out of this cause I have my reasons, but you can still enjoy this film.