Jeri Jacquin
Coming to Bluray from directors James Algar, Samuel
Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield and Norman
Wright along with Walt Disney Studios is a beloved film that continues to
delight us all with BAMBI.
This animated tale tell us the story of a young deer named
Bambi who is born a prince in the forest kingdom. He gets to know the woodland
creatures like Flower the skunk and his buddy Thumper who enjoy their new
friend.
Learning his way around, Bambi learns a little of everything
from all the forest has to offer. He also meets Faline, a doe who teaches him
to play like a deer should. As the seasons change, Bambi and his mother are
struggling to find food but are thrilled when they find a patch of spring.
That happiness isn’t to last as Bambi must now leave with
his father to make his way in the forest. Eventually, Bambi returns having
grown with a set of antlers to meet up with his first friends Thumper and Flower
and even Faline!
Taking his rightful place as the prince of the forest, Bambi
and Faline reconnect as he defends her honor. But it is once again when man
enters the forest that Bambi defends all those in his domain. In that scuffle
another danger to the forest happens as a fire spread wildly.
Together the creatures great and small come together because
they a family and they look to Bambi to lead them!
What can be said about BAMBI that hasn’t been said since it
came to the silver screen over 75 years ago? It is brilliant in its story
telling, stunning in its animation when I first saw it at the age of 10 and
today at the age of 56. Generation after generation continue to see this film
and know immediately it is something special. Five generations of my family
know it to be true.
Voice includes Hardie Albright and Donnie Dunagan as Bambi,
Stan Alexander and Sterling Holloway as Flower, Peter Behn and Sam Edwards as
Thumper, Cammie Conlon and Ann Gillis as Faline, and Friend Shields as the
Great Prince of the Forest.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment began distributing
under its own label in 1980 and continues to bring quality programming to kids
and kids at heart. Home of the most beloved animated features including SNOW
WHITE, PINOCCHIO and SLEEPING BEAUTY to name a few is what keeps families
coming back for more. To see what is currently available to add to your own
family library please visit. www.movies.disney.com
for their At Home titles!
This Anniversary Edition of BAMBI that includes a Bluray,
DVD and Digital HD which means you can take your favorite forest friends just
about anywhere. Also, this is the first time BAMBI is available with a Digital
Copy.
The Bonus Features include Studio Stories: Bambi – Walt
Disney’s Recordings, Deleted Scenes, The Bambi Effect – See how today’s
animated films were inspired by the artistry and technology of Bambi, Inside
Walt’s Story Meetings – Extended Edition, Bambi Fawn Facts – Forest Animal Fun
Facts and so much more!
BAMBI received three Academy Award nominations for Best
Sound, Best Song and Original Music Score – personally I think they should have
swept all three and I think anyone who grew up with Bambi would agree.
When Bambi’s father appears, it is majestic and sad at the
same time as the young deer learns a little more about the deer heritage. I
think that is what is so wonderful about this story; the realities of the human
world can be put in the animated world teaching us so much about ourselves. There
is love, loyalty, friendship, dedication to family and silliness all grouped
into this film.
Disney brings such rich animation and with the Anniversary
Edition the film comes out brilliantly in Bluray. The music and score also
bring so much to the film with its playfulness, sense of urgency and grandeur.
The songs continue to remind me why I love Disney films as do million all over
the world.
Thumper, Flower, Faline as well as Bambi are rich and
beautiful once again. Now I have the opportunity to share, for the first time,
a film that has come to mean so much to me with my own granddaughter – that
makes BAMBI even more amazing and special.
In the end – an enchanting story that continues to live in
our hearts!
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