Filed in archive Great Animation Movies on May 22, 2010

Disney's Bambi Animated Movie

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If you were to ask a child of the 70s or 80s what was the first animated movie to make them cry you'd most likely get the same answer over and over again - Walt Disney's Bambi.

Disney's Bambi animated movie is essentially two stories cut right through the middle with the traumatizing death of a young deer's mother. The first half of Bambi is the telling of his birth and childhood. He was a very curious young deer who showed a lot of interest in the various creatures of the forest and loved his mother very very much.

It was his curiosity that led him to the meadow where his mother was shot by a hunter. The second half was of Bambi as a young buck maturing and learning the ways of nature by falling in love and starting a family of his own. Bambi is certainly a coming-of-age sort of tale and is told quite beautifully if not a bit too dramatically for small children of other sensitive viewers.