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Review Walt Disney Pictures / Lady And The Tramp (2 Disc Special Edition) [1955] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Clyde Geronimi
  • Wilfred Jackson
  • Hamilton Luske
Release date: 2006-02-13
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £21.99
Price: £15.95

Review Lady And The Tramp (2 Disc Special Edition) [1955] [DVD] / Walt Disney Pictures:

Rightly one of Disney’s most celebrated animated classics, Lady and the Tramp is the story of a romance between two dogs from different walks of life. On the one hand, there’s Lady, a golden cocker spaniel used to a very good life. And then she meets a mongrel, who goes by the name of Tramp. Clearly from the wrong side of town, Tramp and Lady nonetheless strike up a friendship, and when fate plays its hand, the two set off on their travels together, which doesn’t quite go quite as either expected. Made in an age where Disney animation was on tip-top form, there’s so much to enjoy here it’s hard to know where to start. The exquisite animation and carefully woven script though both provide an excellent grounding for the film, which is then considerably enhanced by a wonderful musical score. Add in that scene, often parodied, as the two share a romantic meal in an Italian restaurant, and a pair of characters that you can’t help but root for, and you have an unmissable classic for the whole family to enjoy. Lady and the Tramp successfully weaves together moments of comedy, adventure and music really quite seamlessly. And yet, at its heart, this is a tender, extremely well told love story, that rightly sits as one of the finest animated movies the Disney empire have created. Great stuff. [+]
-Simon Brew.

Review Warner Home Video / Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 3 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Red Coffee
  • Daws Butler
  • Tex Avery
  • William Hanna
  • Michael Lah
  • Billy Bletcher
  • Tex Avery
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Joseph Barbera
Release date: 2004-06-28
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Rich Hogan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.89

Review Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 3 [DVD] / Warner Home Video:


Review Disney / Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [DVD] [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Eleanor Audley
  • Mary Costa
  • Bill Shirley
  • Clyde Geronimi
  • Verna Felton
Release date: 2008-10-27
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Bill Shirley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.30

Review Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [DVD] [1958] / Disney:

Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character-how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Maleficent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. -David Kronke, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 2 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Lah
  • Joseph Barbera
  • William Hanna
  • Billy Bletcher
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Red Coffee
  • Tex Avery
  • Daws Butler
  • Tex Avery
Release date: 2004-05-03
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Rich Hogan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.73

Review Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 2 [DVD] / Warner Home Video:

The second DVD in the collector’s edition series features classic cartoons capers from the world’s most famous cat and mouse duo, taking us in chronological order up to the 1950s episode entitled 'Safety Second'. This collection also includes the famous Oscar-winning installment 'The Cat Concerto', which sees Tom and Jerry turn a concert performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody into a pitched battle on the piano.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Pinocchio [Blu-ray] [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Edwards
  • Christian Rub
  • Charles Judels
  • Walter Catlett
  • Dick Jones
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Ben Sharpsteen
Release date: 2009-03-09
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Cliff Edwards
RRP: £26.99
Price: £15.98

Review Pinocchio [Blu-ray] [1940] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen

Review Uca / Camberwick Green - The Complete Collection [DVD] [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Cant
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Alison Prince
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.65

Review Camberwick Green - The Complete Collection [DVD] [1966] / Uca:


Review Walt Disney Pictures / Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition) [DVD] [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Christian Rub
  • Dickie Jones
  • Ben Sharpsteen
  • Evelyn Venable
  • Cliff Edwards
  • Mel Blanc
Release date: 2009-03-09
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Cliff Edwards
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.97

Review Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition) [DVD] [1940] / Walt Disney Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 1 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Tex Avery
  • Red Coffee
  • Tex Avery
  • William Hanna
  • Billy Bletcher
  • Michael Lah
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Daws Butler
Release date: 2004-04-05
Run time: 177 min.
Creator: Rich Hogan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.98

Review Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 1 [DVD] / Warner Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea [DVD] [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Robert J. Wilke
  • Richard Fleischer
  • Paul Lukas
  • Peter Lorre
  • James Mason
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Jules Verne
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.12

Review 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea [DVD] [1954] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor (Paul Lukas) seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide (Peter Lorre), and a harpoon master (Kirk Douglas) survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo (James Mason). Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. [+]
-Doug Thomas The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor (Paul Lukas) seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide (Peter Lorre), and a harpoon master (Kirk Douglas) survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo (James Mason). Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. -Doug Thomas.

Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / The Jungle Book : 40th Anniversary 2 Disc Special Edition [1967] [DVD] [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
Release date: 2007-11-05
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Walt Disney
RRP: £21.99
Price: £6.66

Review The Jungle Book : 40th Anniversary 2 Disc Special Edition [1967] [DVD] [1968] / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:

Disney's 1967 animated feature The Jungle Book seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's original, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan) make it one of the studio's stronger feature-length cartoons. Songs include "The Bare Necessities" and "Trust in Me". -Tom Keogh One of the very best animated films that the Walt Disney Studio has ever released (and the last to be produced by Walt Disney himself), and as downright brilliant as it was on its debut in 1967, The Jungle Book makes a very welcome return to DVD in this excellent 40th anniversary double-disc set. Based loosely on the Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name, the film tells the story of man-cub Mowgli, and the friends he makes in the jungle. And it’s these friends who ignite the film, with some of the most memorable characters and songs that Disney has ever put on the screen. Kings of The Jungle Book are the likes of Baloo the Bear, King Louie the villainous Shere Khan the Tiger, while supporting characters such as Colonel Hathi are just as memorable. It’s astonishing that it packs so much and so many into its relatively short running time. It’s an amazing achievement too that The Jungle Book bristles with such energy and fun, and that it’s just as likely to enthral the current generation of youngsters as well as those of us who saw it first time round. And when those songs start playing-from Bare Necessities through to I Wanna Be Like You-it'll take some effort to not start tapping your feet. [+]
A brilliant, brilliant film, and as vintage as the Disney back catalogue gets. -Simon Brew.

Review Warner Home Video / The Wizard Of Oz (3 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Bert Lahr
  • Margaret Hamilton
  • Judy Garland
  • Ray Bolger
  • Victor Fleming
  • Jack Haley
Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Jack Haley
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.86

Review The Wizard Of Oz (3 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1939] / Warner Home Video:

When it was released during Hollywood's golden year of 1939, The Wizard of Oz wasn’t regarded as anything like the perennial classic it has since become. The film did respectable business, but it wasn't until its debut on television that this family favourite saw its popularity soar. And while Oz's TV broadcasts are now controlled by media mogul Ted Turner (who owns the rights), the advent of home video has made this lively musical a mainstay in the staple diet of great American films. Young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), her dog, Toto, and her three companions on the yellow brick road to Oz - the Tin Man (Jack Haley), the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), and the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) - have become pop-culture icons and central figures in the legacy of fantasy for children. As the Wicked Witch who covets Dorothy's enchanted ruby slippers, actress Margaret Hamilton has had the singular honor of scaring the wits out of children for more than six decades. The film's still as fresh, frightening and funny as it was when first released. It may take some liberal detours from the original story by L. Frank Baum, but it's loyal to the Baum legacy while charting its own course as a spectacular film. Shot in glorious Technicolor, befitting its dynamic production design (Munchkinland alone is a psychedelic explosion of colour and decor), The Wizard of Oz may not appeal to every taste as the years go by, but it's nonetheless required viewing for kids of all ages. -Jeff Shannon DVD features The Wizard of Oz DVD released in 1999 was loaded with extra features, but it's now safe to throw away that version in all its cardboard-package glory in favour of the new three-disc edition. [+]
First things first: All the bonus material from the earlier disc is there. That includes the Angela Lansbury-hosted documentary The Making of a Movie Classic, which is worth the price of the DVD alone; then there are the outtakes and deleted scenes, including Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow" reprise and the home-movie recording of "The Jitterbug"; the sketches and stills and composer Harold Arlen's home movies; the audio underscores and radio programs; the 1979 interviews with Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger, and Jack Haley; and other items too numerous to mention. (Some text introductions to the features have been replaced by narration by Lansbury. ) Brand new to this edition is a sharp restoration using Warner's Ultra Resolution process and an accompanying featurette on how it's done. The technicians also discuss how the sound was remixed, though that would have been more effective had it included surround-sound demonstrations. Other features on the new set include a commentary track by critic John Fricke supplemented by vintage cast interviews (he offers a lot of trivia, and debunks the myth that Shirley Temple was ever close to getting the Dorothy role); profiles of nine cast members and clips of other movies they appeared in (including Toto); a lightly animated 10-minute storybook again narrated by Lansbury; 2001 and 2005 behind-the-scenes featurettes; and a 1950 Lux Radio Theater broadcast. The old 1999 disc also included one-minute excerpts of three early treatments of The Wizard of Oz. The third disc of this new three-disc collector's edition includes the complete versions of those treatments and more. They are four silent films: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910, 13 min. ), The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914, 38 min. ), His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914, 59 min. , written and directed by Baum himself), The Wizard of Oz (1925, 72 min. , Larry Semon). The fifth treatment is Ted Eshbaum's 1933 Technicolor cartoon short which has songs and sound, and is the first depiction of Kansas in black and white and Oz in colour. The third disc also has a 38-minute biography of L. Frank Baum and collector's-edition supplements include a gorgeous set of photo cards among other materials. This is a gloriously comprehensive addition to anyone’s classic DVD collection. -David Horiuchi.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Swiss Family Robinson [DVD] [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Ken Annakin
  • James MacArthur
  • Sessue Hayakawa
  • John Mills
  • Dorothy McGuire
  • Janet Munro
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Lowell S. Hawley
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.09

Review Swiss Family Robinson [DVD] [1960] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

The Disney touch is all over this grand, colourful version of the Johann Wyss adventure of a European family setting off for the new world of New Guinea. The film opens on a ship jostled and torn by a raging storm while a family struggles to make it through alive. Tossed into a reef near a deserted tropical island, father John Mills takes charge and the family soon turns their island prison into a veritable paradise. Their multi-level tree house, built in record time, is complete with running water and a working pipe organ scavenged from the ship, while their grand yard is abloom in English roses. As a tale of hardship and pioneer pluck it's pure fantasy, but as entertainment it's energetic and appealing. The island is impossibly populated by ostriches, zebras, lions and elephants, a private zoo that delights the youngest boy and offers plenty of comic relief. The two older brothers discover even wilder life when they rescue the prisoner of oriental pirates (led by hard-bitten Sessue Hayakawa). There's little real danger anywhere in the film: even the climactic battle with the pirates is a cartoonish affair, with coconut bombs and non-lethal booby traps, until the final desperate, deadly moments. Hardly a faithful adaptation of the novel, but a lush, beautifully shot film and an entertaining adventure safe for all ages. Dorothy McGuire co-stars as the proper, worry-prone mother. [+]
-Sean Axmaker.

Review Cinderella / Cinderella (Special Edition) [DVD] [1950]
Release date: 2005-10-24
Run time: 62 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.74

Review Cinderella (Special Edition) [DVD] [1950] / Cinderella:

Worry not, Disney fans-this special edition DVD of the beloved Cinderella won't turn into a pumpkin at the strike of midnight. One of the most enduring animated films of all time, the Disney-fied adaptation of the gory Brothers Grimm fairy tale became a classic in its own right, thanks to some memorable tunes (including "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," and the title song) and some endearingly cute comic relief. We all know the story-the wicked stepmother and stepsisters simply won't have it, this uppity Cinderella thinking she's going to a ball designed to find the handsome prince an appropriate sweetheart, but perseverance, animal buddies, and a well-timed entrance by a fairy godmother make sure things turn out all right. There are a few striking sequences of pure animation-for example, Cinderella is reflected in bubbles drifting through the air-and the design is rich and evocative throughout. It's a simple story padded here agreeably with comic business, particularly Cinderella's rodent pals (dressed up conspicuously like the dwarf sidekicks of another famous Disney heroine) and their misadventures with a wretched cat named Lucifer. There's also much harrumphing and exposition spouting by the King and the Grand Duke. It's a much simpler and more graceful work than the more frenetically paced animated films of today, which makes it simultaneously quaint and highly gratifying. -David Kronke, Amazon. com.

Review Peter Pan / Peter Pan (2 Disc Special Edition) [1953] [DVD]
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 74 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.25

Review Peter Pan (2 Disc Special Edition) [1953] [DVD] / Peter Pan:

Peter Pan has a special place in the realm of classic animated Disney films: it instills an element of childlike wonder. The 1953 version of James M. Barrie's story is colourfully told and keeps on the straight and narrow of the book. Barrie's wondrous focus on child's play is the key to its longevity: kids who don't grow up, shadows that run away from their owners, pirates, a fairy, and the magic ability to fly. In short, you can't help wishing the adventure would happen to you. Fueled by a few memorable songs (the stunner being "You Can Fly") and the strong impression of the pixie fairy Tinkerbell and the goofy Captain Hook, Disney's version of this story neither supplants nor lessens the Broadway version with Mary Martin that was produced for television the same decade. Unlike some classics, Peter Pan never ages along the way. -Doug Thomas.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Jungle Book/Jungle Book 2 [DVD] [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
  • Louis Prima
  • Bruce Reitherman
  • Phil Harris
  • Sebastian Cabot
  • George Sanders
Release date: 2007-11-05
Run time: 145 min.
Creator: Vance Gerry
RRP: £26.99
Price: £12.68

Review Jungle Book/Jungle Book 2 [DVD] [1967] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Disney's 1967 animated feature The Jungle Book seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's original, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan) make it one of the studio's stronger feature-length cartoons. Songs include "The Bare Necessities" and "Trust in Me". -Tom Keogh One of the very best animated films that the Walt Disney Studio has ever released (and the last to be produced by Walt Disney himself), and as downright brilliant as it was on its debut in 1967, The Jungle Book makes a very welcome return to DVD in this excellent 40th anniversary double-disc set. Based loosely on the Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name, the film tells the story of man-cub Mowgli, and the friends he makes in the jungle. And it’s these friends who ignite the film, with some of the most memorable characters and songs that Disney has ever put on the screen. Kings of The Jungle Book are the likes of Baloo the Bear, King Louie the villainous Shere Khan the Tiger, while supporting characters such as Colonel Hathi are just as memorable. It’s astonishing that it packs so much and so many into its relatively short running time. It’s an amazing achievement too that The Jungle Book bristles with such energy and fun, and that it’s just as likely to enthral the current generation of youngsters as well as those of us who saw it first time round. And when those songs start playing-from Bare Necessities through to I Wanna Be Like You-it'll take some effort to not start tapping your feet. [+]
A brilliant, brilliant film, and as vintage as the Disney back catalogue gets. -Simon Brew.

Review Network / Magpie [DVD] [1968]
Release date: 2009-06-29
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98

Review Magpie [DVD] [1968] / Network:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Sword In The Stone (45th Anniversary Edition) [DVD] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Napier
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
  • Vera Vague
  • Rickie Sorenson
  • Karl Swenson
  • Norman Alden
Release date: 2008-08-18
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Rickie Sorenson
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.65

Review The Sword In The Stone (45th Anniversary Edition) [DVD] [1963] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

As far as Disney is concerned, The Sword in the Stone was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upstaging storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. Based on TH White's beloved novel The Once and Future King, this Disney version chronicles King Arthur's boyish adventures. There's much to enjoy here as coach Merlin the magician shows the young Arthur, nicknamed Wart, the skills that will help him become the future ruler of the Britons. The transformation sequences, where the boy is turned into a fish, a bird and a squirrel are vintage Disney. The oft-repeated scene of Merlin battling it out with mean old Madame Mim still is worth a few chuckles, but it underlines the problem with most of the film-most of its scenes are only played for laughs. References by Merlin to television and other items of modern life also mar the generally innocuous landscape. Younger children will like it, while older kids will find it slower compared with recent Disney films. -Keith Simanton.

Review Uca / Trumpton - The Complete Collection [DVD] [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Cant
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Alison Prince
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.83

Review Trumpton - The Complete Collection [DVD] [1967] / Uca:


Review Bfi Video / Lotte Reiniger - Fairy Tales [DVD] [1922]
Actors & Directors
  • Lotte Reiniger
Release date: 2008-11-17
Run time: 192 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.86

Review Lotte Reiniger - Fairy Tales [DVD] [1922] / Bfi Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Bambi (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • David Hand
  • Donnie Dunagan
  • Bobby Stewart
  • Paul Behn
  • Paula Winslowe
  • Hardy Albright
Release date: 2005-02-14
Run time: 69 min.
Creator: Donnie Dunagan
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.71

Review Bambi (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1942] / Walt Disney Home Video:

It always comes up when people are comparing their most traumatic movie experiences: "the death of Bambi's mother," a recollection that can bring a shudder to even the most jaded filmgoer. That primal separation (which is no less stunning for happening off-screen) is the centerpiece of Bambi, Walt Disney's 1942 animated classic, but it is by no means the only bold stroke in the film. In its swift but somehow leisurely 69 minutes, Bambi covers a year in the life of a young deer. But in a bigger way, it measures the life cycle itself, from birth to adulthood, from childhood's freedom to grown-up responsibility. All of this is rendered in cheeky, fleet-footed style-the movie doesn't lecture, or make you feel you're being fed something that's good for you. The animation is miraculous, a lush forest in which nature is a constantly unfolding miracle (even in a spectacular fire, or those dark moments when "man was in the forest"). There are probably easier animals to draw than a young deer, and the Disney animators set themselves a challenge with Bambi's wobbly glide across an ice-covered lake, his spindly legs akimbo; but the sequence is effortless and charming. If Bambi himself is just a bit dull-such is the fate of an Everydeer-his rabbit sidekick Thumper and a skunk named Flower more than make up for it. Many of the early Disney features have their share of lyrical moments and universal truths, but Bambi is so simple, so pure, it's almost transparent. You might borrow a phrase from Thumper and say it's downright twitterpated. [+]
-Robert Horton.

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Lady And The Tramp (2 Disc Special Edition) [1955] [DVD], Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 3 [DVD], Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [DVD] [1958], Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 2 [DVD], Pinocchio [Blu-ray] [1940], Camberwick Green - The Complete Collection [DVD] [1966], Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition) [DVD] [1940], Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 1 [DVD], 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea [DVD] [1954], The Jungle Book : 40th Anniversary 2 Disc Special Edition [1967] [DVD] [1968], The Wizard Of Oz (3 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1939], Swiss Family Robinson [DVD] [1960], Cinderella (Special Edition) [DVD] [1950], Peter Pan (2 Disc Special Edition) [1953] [DVD], Jungle Book/Jungle Book 2 [DVD] [1967], Magpie [DVD] [1968], The Sword In The Stone (45th Anniversary Edition) [DVD] [1963], Trumpton - The Complete Collection [DVD] [1967], Lotte Reiniger - Fairy Tales [DVD] [1922], Bambi (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1942]

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