Number Five: Bambi

Bambi

1942

This movie makes me feel bad to be a human. All the humans, or the one human, in this movie suck. They cause trouble, kill beloved characters and start massive forest fires. They are nothing but a nuisance to the animals who made a home in this forest.

One of these animals is named Bambi. He is a deer. Bambi is happy little baby deer, making friends with rabbits and skunks, until his mom is shot by a hunter. Then he is sad.

Life moves on for Bambi. He grows up and meets a nice doe, on whom he twitterpates. I’m not making that word up, that is the term used by the wise old owl in the movie. Unfortunately, his happiness is cut short by the stupid hunter, probably the same one who killed his mom, falling asleep without putting out his campfire, and burning the whole forest nearly down. Luckily for most of the animals, they all escape and live happily ever after.

I could go in to more detail about the plot, but really, there isn’t much more. Plus I am sure you all know how it goes. This is one movie that everyone has seen before, probably more than once. So there is no need to tell you how it goes, you already know.

Now that’s over with, I have one question for the writers of this film. WHY?!?! Why did Bambi’s mom have to die? Why? Everyone who has ever seen this movie hates that part! It’s dumb. I don’t care if the plot sort of revolves around it. Who needs plot anyway? Can’t we just have sixty nine minutes of endearing animals? Storylines are really overrated now a day’s anyway!

I hate animal deaths. I do. The ending of Charlotte’s Web still makes me cry to this day. Don’t even get me started on Mufasa’s death. Watching the opening for The Fox and the Hound used to  make me produce buckets of tears. Animal deaths are just dumb. I don’t mind if a human dies in a movie, but killing a cute animal is just wrong.

Besides this tragic aspect of the film, Bambi is fine. That’s it. Just fine. It doesn’t make me want to chew glass, but it’s not a movie that I absolutely love watching. It just exists for me. Sure it does have its moments, like when the animals twitterpate (I’m using that word as much as I can from now on). This has never been one of my favorites, and I don’t believe that I’ll ever feel anything but “meh” to it.

Movie Watching Budd(y)(ies): Katie

Best Song: In this movie, there were two songs, and I disliked both of them. So I refuse to give either one the title of best song. And I can do that, because it’s my blog and I make the rules. So there.

Best Part: Twitterpating!