
Bambi
Love Comes To The Forest Folk . . . and to you, in one of the world's greatest love stories!
1942 • 70 min • Animation · Drama · Family
Synopsis
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
Our family guide
Best from age 6- 75 Reviewers · 4 · 60%
- 70 Audience · 6083 · 40%
This classic animated tale follows a young fawn named Bambi from birth as he explores the forest, makes friends like Thumper and Flower, and learns about life's joys and sorrows. It's a poignant story about growing up and the cycles of nature.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 0/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 0/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- A parent figure dies off-screen, which can be upsetting.
- Hunters are a threatening presence, and a forest fire creates peril.
- Some scenes might be sad or intense for very young viewers.
What it models well
- Resilience in the face of loss
- Friendship and loyalty
- Growth and maturation
Talk about it after
- The circle of life and nature's rhythms
- Coping with sadness and change
- The importance of friendship
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Top billed cast
Director: David Hand • Crew: Perce Pearce, Vernon Stallings, Mel Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch, Ralph Wright

Donnie Dunagan
Young Bambi (voice) (uncredited)

Peter Behn
Young Thumper (voice) (uncredited)

Stan Alexander
Young Flower (voice) (uncredited)

Cammie King
Young Faline (voice) (uncredited)

Will Wright
Friend Owl (voice) (uncredited)

Hardie Albright
Adolescent Bambi (voice) (uncredited)

Ann Gillis
Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)

Tim Davis
Adolescent Thumper / Adolescent Flower (voice) (uncredited)

Sam Edwards
Adult Thumper (voice) (uncredited)

Sterling Holloway
Adult Flower (voice) (uncredited)
Trailers & clips
Bambi - 1982 Reissue Trailer (35mm 4K)
Bambi - 2005 Platinum Edition DVD Trailer #2
Bambi - 1988 Reissue Trailer (35mm 4K)
Bambi - 1942 Original Theatrical Trailer
The Making of Bambi
Bambi Blu-Ray - Official® Trailer [HD]
Nathan Lane Compares BAMBI & THE LION KING
Reviewer notes
RecommendedGood for Children and sad too. I personally don't like the movie. I think it's boring and always makes me fal asleep.
Recommended"Bambi" is born into an idyllic forest life - his father is the bull stag; his mother an adoring hind and he quickly befriends all the other animals in his gloriously technicolour world. He learns to walk, to talk, even to ice-skate with the help of his bunny pal "Thumper" and he encounters the joys and perils of the seasons from sunny summers to freezing winters too. All is perfect until human beings take an hand...
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersLooking back at this film as it was filmed in 1942 by nine freaking directors man... one supervising director David Hand and the rest sequence directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis and Clyde Geronimi. One thing I’d never known before that I learned is that Bambi the film was based on an actual book from 1923 called Bambi, A Life In The...
Not recommendedThe scenery in _Bambi_ is honestly so beautiful. If you were to compare it to the animation I grew up with in the 90s, or even the animation of today, it doesn't just hold up, Bambi's nature scenes actually **outclass** them. Positively gorgeous. But in that spirit of honesty, _Bambi_ is a really boring movie. I think the one and only time I've seen it before I was around 5 or so, that'd be more than two decade...
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.0/10 (6,083)
- Age rating
- G
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $858,000
- Box office
- $267,447,150
- Franchise
- Bambi Collection
- IMDb
- tt0034492
- Official site
- movies.disney.com

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