Word: bambi
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...salve your soul and scare you to tears. Alone in the dark, awed by images bigger and bolder than any dream, children shuddered through a skein of traumas that Walt had devised for them: the outrage of kidnaping (Pinocchio), the ridicule of deformity (Dumbo), the death of a mother (Bambi). Long before the '80s scourge of slasher movies, Disney's were the true horror films, offering primal nightmares and blessed release. And the young were their eager victims. When Snow White premiered at Radio City Music Hall, the management reportedly had to reupholster the seats because they were so often...
...making it work at the box office. The Star Wars trilogy was putting a high-tech spin on the old Disney legerdemain. So, brilliantly, were Steven Spielberg's films: Close Encounters of the Third Kind used When You Wish upon a Star as a theme, and E.T. was "Bambi from Outer Space...
Director Phil Alden Robinson, whose previous credits include the screenplay for All Of Me, weaves the story of Carver in a relentlessly sentimental sweetness fest that made me long for the hard-bitten realism of Bambi, or at least Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
From Holworthy's laundry room hails the vindictive statement "Bomb Bambi in '87." But the defender of the deer rose to the rescue and not only wrote a reply but sketched a drawing of Bambi saying "No! please bomb Thumper or Blossom? Yeah, in fact, bombing Blossom is a great ideal...
Wait; there is one good line in the movie. Burt asks this wimpy Bostonian character if he ever hunts, and the guy answers, "No, not since Bambi." There. I've saved you five bucks. I imagine I could bash the flick for a few more paragraphs, but it's no fun; it's like mocking a leper. It's got enough problems already...