[innerSpaceman]

Hmmm, I also didn't see Bambi till I was an adult. It was the last Walt-era animated feature I saw, and that was not until circa 1986. Interestingly, it was part of a film-festival at LACMA that had the same mission as the recent slate of mousepods, i.e., presenting all the Disney animated features in order. It was a great series ... some of the more important films were presented with discussion panels, featuring many of the surviving animators and voice talents.

Anyway, of all those films, Bambi was the only one I hadn't seen before. And seeing it for the first time as an adult, it affected me in a different way than most of the other Disney films.

Thanks for the show, mousepod. I think I'll finally watch that Bambi DVD I purchased like a year ago! (My friends at Lowrey were not proud of their restoration work on that film, so I've had sort of a bad feeling about it.)



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Ok, it may be Thumper's motto (or, rather, his dad's) ... but I'm not the type to say nothing at all if I don't have anything nice to say. So here's my criticism of the week:


The start of the show was weak. Between the rambling recitation of the myriad ways to contact the mousepod, and the admittedly fun reactions to the prior show ... it was like 20 minutes before the topic of Bambi was even broached.

Dude, even if you're going to go "live" - I think you need to scriptify the stuff about contacting you. That should take no more than 60 seconds, and should not clutter up the start of the show when interest should be grabbed. My suggestion would be, in general, to get to the meat a little faster.



Once again, I loved the musical numbers. Where did you ever dig up that bizarre Nipponese version of "Little April Showers?" Sheesh, there should have been a two-minute warning to fire up the hookah before you hit the audience with that one.

Oh, and the sound clip from Diamonds Are Forever was beautifully inspired!