Bambi II (2006)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Brian Pimental

Writers:

Ben Gluck (head of story)
Alicia Kirk (screenplay)
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Release Date:

26 January 2006 (Argentina)

Genre:

Family | Animation

Tagline:

A father's love, a son's courage.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Independence | Deer | Friendship | Bullying | Love Seeking

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Patrick Stewart	...	The Great Prince / Stag (voice)
Alexander Gould	...	Bambi (voice)
Brendon Baerg	...	Thumper (voice)
Carolyn Hennesy	...	Bambi's Mother (voice)
Nicky Jones	...	Flower (voice)
Anthony Ghannam	...	Ronno (voice)
Andrea Bowen	...	Faline (voice)
Keith Ferguson	...	Owl (voice)
Cree Summer	...	Mena
Brian Pimental	...	Groundhog / Porcupine
Makenna Cowgill	...	Thumper's Sister
Ariel Winter	...	Thumpers Sisters
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mary Day	...	Additional voice
Harrison Fahn	...	Additional Voices
Emma Rose Lima	...	Thumper's Sister
Mary Matilyn Mouser	...	(voice)
Jordan Orr	...	Additional voices
Alexis Restrum	...	Additional voice
Grace Rolek	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jennessa Rose	...	Additional voice
George Shenusay	...	Additional voice
Kath Soucie	...	Additional voice
Frank Welker	...	Additional voice

Directed by
Brian Pimental

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ben Gluck		head of story
Alicia Kirk		screenplay
Brian Pimental		story

Produced by
Jim Ballantine	....	producer
Dave Okey	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Bruce Broughton

Film Editing by
Jeremy Milton
Mark Solomon

Art Direction by
Carol Kieffer Police

Production Management
Sandra Beerenbrock	....	assistant production manager
Mark Bollinger	....	post-production supervisor
Allison Cain	....	assistant production manager
Niki Carras	....	assistant production manager: Digital
Lucinda Glenn	....	assistant production manager
Jeffrey Moznett	....	production supervisor
Todd Popp	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alexs Stadermann	....	unit director

Art Department
Holly Forsyth	....	storyboard artist
Heidi Friese	....	painter
Carole Holliday	....	storyboard artist
Karen A. Keller	....	key layout artist
Larry Leker	....	storyboard artist
Robert Lence	....	storyboard artist
Tony Lovett	....	workbook artist
Sue C. Nichols	....	storyboard artist
Helen Orth	....	painter
Jeff Richards	....	visual development
Robert Sledge	....	storyboard artist
Lajos Kamocsay	....	CGI lead (uncredited)

Sound Department
Erik Flockoi	....	sound recordist
Nathaniel Kunkel	....	sound mixer
Donald J. Malouf	....	supervising sound editor
Alyson Dee Moore	....	foley artist
Terry O'Bright	....	sound re-recording mixer
Corey Roberts	....	additional adr recordist
John Roesch	....	foley artist
Keith Rogers	....	sound re-recording mixer
Dan Yale	....	supervising foley editor

Visual Effects by
Simon Alberry	....	senior CGI animator
Andrew Coates	....	lead compositor
David Costello	....	digital compositor
Mark Evans	....	digital compositor
Eric Grimenstein	....	CG artist
Elias Macute	....	digital compositor
Jörg Schulz-Gerchow	....	digital compositor

Animation Department
Georges Abolin	....	animator
Tony Ambrose	....	inbetween artist
Richard Bailey	....	animator
Bob Baxter	....	senior CGI animator
Davide Benvenuti	....	senior animator
Matt Boug	....	inbetween artist
Alex Casin	....	layout artist
Farouk Cherfi	....	animator
Bridgette Connell	....	inbetween artist
Manny A. DeGuzman	....	senior clean-up artist
Andreas Deja	....	animation consultant
Matt Diks	....	inbetween artist
Jonathan Dower	....	animator
Julie Eberley	....	background artist
Scott Fassett	....	background artist
Federico Ferrari	....	animator
Kayn Garcia	....	animator
Ian Harrowell	....	animation supervisor: Thumper, Flower
Arturo A. Hernandez	....	character designer
Bill Hodman	....	layout artist
Geoff Ind	....	inbetween artist
Mark Ingram	....	inbetween artist
Pieter Lommerse	....	animation supervisor
Pieter Lommerse	....	character lead: Great Prince
Pierre Lorenzi	....	background artist
Andries Maritz	....	senior animator
Satjit Matharu	....	animator
Malcolm McCarthy	....	inbetween artist
James McGinlay	....	animator
Patrick Muylkens	....	background artist
Christine O'Connor	....	animation checking supervisor
Terry O'Toole	....	character lead
Stefano Pastorino	....	layout artist
Michael Pattison	....	inbetween animation supervisor
Michael Pattison	....	inbetweening supervisor
Gie Santos	....	animator: "Bambi"
Toby Schwarz	....	animator (as Tobias Schwarz)
Robert Sledge	....	character designer
Mark Sonntag	....	layout artist
Carin-Anne Strohmaier	....	animation editor
Jocelyn Sy	....	animator
Rizaldy Valencia	....	animator: "Bambi"
Florian Wagner	....	animator
Theresa Wiseman	....	animator
Andrew Wolf	....	layout artist
Kevin Wotton	....	animator
Samantha Youssef	....	animator

Casting Department
Daniel J. Soulsby	....	casting supervisor
David Wright	....	casting
Ned Lott	....	additional casting (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Barbara Gerety	....	assistant editor
Karen Hathaway	....	second editor
Lisa Linder	....	additional editor
Matt Perry	....	production editor

Music Department
Dominick Certo	....	music editor
Scott Erickson	....	music arranger
Scott Erickson	....	music producer
Steven Gizicki	....	music supervisor
Clint W. Heidorn	....	music coordinator
Jason Henkel	....	music administrator
Tim Lauber	....	score recordist
Jason Lloyd	....	scoring cue mixer
Tim Rodier	....	music preparation
Tom Steel	....	scoring stage manager
Bill Talbott	....	scoring technician

Other crew
Olivier Adam	....	layout director
Olivier Adam	....	workbook supervisor
Sylvie Bennett-Fauqué	....	scene planner
Christopher Glenn Collins	....	production coordinator
Kristi Connolly	....	scene planner
Mike Dugard	....	scene planner
Mary Lescher	....	lead scene planner
Linda Luong	....	production coordinator
Benjamin G. Malbrough	....	talent coordinator
Nathan Massmann	....	assistant production manager
Jennessa Rose	....	adr loop group
Amy Wardrop	....	production co-coordinator
Kip Lewis	....	production coordinator (uncredited)

Production Companies

• DisneyToon Studios
• Walt Disney Pictures

Distributors

• Buena Vista International (2006) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2006) (Poland) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Buena Vista International (2006) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2006) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Pictures (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Falcon (2006) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2006) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2006) (Japan) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD) (rental)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD) (retail)
• Buena Vista International Finland (2006) (Finland) (DVD)
• Gativideo (2006) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Gativideo (2006) (Argentina) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

Finland:74 min (cinema release) | France:75 min | Argentina:72 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:G | UK:U | Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:Atp | Norway:A | France:U | Netherlands:AL | Brazil:Livre | Finland:K-3 | Portugal:M/4 | Sweden:Btl | Australia:G | Iceland:L | Peru:PT

Company:

DisneyToon Studios

Trivia:

The film was released in theaters in 25 countries, but in the USA it was a direct-to-video release.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Flower said "See? I told you turtles were scary!" When Bambi laughs, the rest of his forehead is suddenly colored in when it's not supposed to be.

Quotes:

[First lines]
Bambi: Mother! Mother! Moth...
[Gasp]
The Great Prince: Your mother can't be with you anymore. Come.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Saturday Night Live: Lindsay Lohan/Pearl Jam (#31.16)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song

Not as bad as I expected but still not up to the original......is that any surprise??

Well, kiddies......... those horrific visions I had of Bambi, Thumper and Flower line-dancing in their ghetto-rap outfits with some knuckle-headed "Poptart" caterwauling in the background were all for naught. I'm not gonna give away all the goodies-would'nt be fair to all my fellow "Mousies" to spew out any spoilers- but I can tell you this......aside from a few issues that sorta chapped my inner child, this is simply the best DTV that "The House of Mouse" has ever released. The animation is every bit as good as a lot of the recent theatrical films , with beautifully rendered background art and an overall "Technicolor" look that was for the most part quite dazzling .........and how about them voices? I gotta admit the casting is excellent.

Story-wise, well....that's one of the things that I still ain't all that thrilled about . Despite having been "kiddiefied" from a book that was essentially written for adults, the original "Bambi" was still a wonderful film that catered to both ends of the age spectrum, a talent that Uncle Walt had in spades. This midquel is squarely aimed at the lunchbox-tetherball set to the point that unless you're a complete animation nut like yours truly, you might find one or two scenes a bit too cloyingly ooky to your liking. Still, it's heads and tail above any of the previous DTV "Twosies" and even a few of the "Feature" flicks released over the past 15 years, and I honestly think it's gonna do quite well.

One other bone of contention I have however, are the songs.Granted, they used a few snippets from the original's score, but all the stuff produced exclusively for the current film was your typically weak, formula-laden "contemporary" numbers that are so cookie-cutter bland that you can't even distinguish one from the other. That was one of the most wonderful things about the first movie ...even more than sixty years after it's release, the songs were so well written that they sound just as good now as they did then. Sad to say, it's gonna "date" the film in a most unflattering way. Second b.o.c. I have is in regards to some of the character animation ie: Ronno, the porcupine and the groundhog, especially Ronno. Pretty average design that clashes terribly with the rest of the animation and the exactly the sort of quality you come to expect from a DTV.As said, the rendering of "Bullyboy"Ronno was the worst...at times his looked like they'd been lifted straight from "Balto III".....not impressive in the least. On the other side of the coin, The Great Prince looked gorgeous as did the other deer.......Friend Owl was drawn absolutely spot on, though Thumper and Flower did look nice they still did'nt look quite enough like their original incarnations to retain all their charms. As for Bambi himself, well.......let's just say that 90% was beautifully done, but unfortunately the animators' attempts to "modernize" his facial expressions in a lot of his scenes failed quite miserably and were very disappointing. Despite it's flaws, it's still better than all the previous Disneytoon releases and well worth at least one watch.