Went to rent a few movies with my younger sibbie and grandma last night. Got Bambi II(much to younger sibbie's distress) and didn't watch it until today. Like for most Disney sequals I watch, I had little hope for this movie.
"Damnable Disney noobs! How can they possibly make twos out of every movie they have? It's not fair! What's next, 'Bambi the Series?'" Was all that went through my head as the DVD started up.
Be warned, the next bit contains randomly placed spoilers so if you don't want Bambi II spoiled for you, don't read it.
If my voice were working properly, I would've squeed like the most rabid Orlando Bloom fangirls in the world when I saw Bambi's father. I nearly died when I heard his voice. He was too wonderful for my brain to comprehend. The movie only got better from then on, and I found myself believing that this sequel had some how been planned by Walt Disney himself.
The voices were wonderfully done, with Patrick Stewart(Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard) as Bambi's father and Alexander Gould(Nemo, Finding Nemo) as Bambi himself. The animation was nearly the same as the original, with better quality and the backgrounds were digitally recreated to look like the original. The music had some parts that were like the original score. Even the story and dialog were good, lacking the generic Disney Sequel "Everybody is the same and we all love each other and nothing bad could happen and we should all work together and there is no violence"ness that sends sentient beings to nearby bathrooms to discard the contents of their stomachs.
Overall it was a wonderful movie, and broke itself free of the title "Disney Sequel" and has been promoted to "Disney Movie". Yes, I love it that much. I wonder if Disney Sequels would be so bad if they actually worked as hard as they did on other sequels as they did Bambi II. Let us hope that this is the start of a new era for Disney Sequels.
And you should all know that there's a horrible little deer named Ronno there. He's very mean to Bambi(despite being an absolute mama's boy) and he also reveals to us that Bambi is a girls name. He's cute when he tries to show Feline just how strong he is. It went something like this:
[Ronno and Feline walking through the forest together]
Ronno: You know, the great thing about me is, I don't feel any pain.
Feline: Really?
Ronno: Yeah I'll show you. [runs as fast as he can bashing his head into the nearest tree. Stumbles around confusedly]
Ronno: See! Nothing at all.
I also had to check out the "Sneak Peeks" on the DVD. It breaks my heart to say that they have, infact, created The Fox and the Hound II and it looks undeniably stupid. From what I gathered from the previews, this takes place when Copper and Todd are still young. Copper joins a country dog band and Todd is upset about this. Todd even stated at one point "Ever since you joined that band you've never been around. It's either them-or me." Patrick Swayze will be in it playing a dog in the band named Cash and Reba McEntire will be a dog named Dixie who is also in the band. Other voices are to be announced.
This killed all my hope for Disney Sequels. They didn't even mention Cheif. Poor old coot, doomed to hang out in a barrel until the end of time...
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