![]() ![]() Now, to be fair, I have enjoyed the occasional DTV: the linear Peter Pan continuation Return To Never-Land was a delightful surprise in theaters after a poor run of sub-TV styled “features” such as Pocahontas II, Hunchback II and the downright frankly awful Cinderella II (notice a theme here?). THUMPER BAMBI SCREEN TIME MOVIEFor, following the tried and tested DisneyToon formula, the movie is another in the long line of “mid-quels”…essentially filling in “missing” scenes from their respective original Disney movies, even if the question – especially with the films that inserted themselves in Walt’s original classics – surely must be…if Walt had wanted such scenes to be seen, they would have ended up in the original movie, right? The lack of story-based boldness and original plots also hampered these films, even if their styles, design and cartooning eventually became more comparable to the output of Disney’s 1990s renaissance thanks to the ever improving boys and girls at the Mouse House’s custom studio down under.Ī case in point on its original release to DVD five years ago was Bambi II, which is not actually a sequel or a follow up, and would have worked much better with its announced Bambi And The Great Prince Of The Forest title. Not so long ago, the DTVs had a very bad name amongst Disney aficionados, and with good reason: the plundering of Walt’s original characters and their “starring” in a new generation of pointless and uncalled for sequels may have been, for a long while, the only place you could catch hand-drawn animation from the Studio that had built its name on such entertainment, but they also diluted the art on which they were based. ![]() And in many ways, it’s one of the few direct-to-video titles that may warrant such attention. Unlike its recent counterpart to The Fox And The Hound, which shares a great deal with this film’s predecessor in terms of story structure, Bambi’s sequel – or again, rather, “mid-quel” – finds itself not tied to a release of the original film or even bundled in as an extra, but given a new lease of life in a new Blu-ray hi-def upgrade, with “Special Edition” markings for good measure. Return to the forest to follow Bambi, post-parental loss in the original movie, but before he copes with growing up. THUMPER BAMBI SCREEN TIME 1080PDisneyToon Studios (February 7 2006), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 23 2011), 1 Blu-ray Disc and 1 DVD, 73 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, Rated G, Retail: $39.99 ![]()
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