Ploydsge just watch it!

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Mr-Fusion There's an unpolished quality to "Bambi Meets Godzilla" - the rough draft animation and the hiss-and-pop sound - that keeps your eyes glued until the very end. And by then you realize that the (brilliant) joke is that it's all just series of credits; each more absurd than the last. Something does really happen in this short and there is an actual story to it (threadbare though it is), but it's all about the gag ending. I don't know who Marv Newland is, but I love the guy's sense of humor. And maybe this speaks to a sadistic streak in me, but the idea of Godzilla actually meeting Bambi is an amusing one. How could you not love this?8/10

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) Bambi, the little deer crying so heartbreakingly over his mother less than 30 years before Marv Newland's approach to the story was released, is standing in the grass. We hear a soft tune and the whole ambiance is just very chilly and relaxing. 45 seconds in and nothing seems to be happening. We were oh-so wrong. Godzilla's foot smashes the poor thing all of a sudden. Traumatizing development. What was Newland thinking. It was certainly two of the most opposed characters meeting in the same film and the outcome is the expected as well, but why? Why? Why, Mr. Newland? The credits roll in from start to finish of the short film. Notions like "Bambi's wardrobe by Marv Newland" isn't particularly funny either. He seems a vile person without a heart. I can't recommend this one.

noncompusmentus Film Review.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAVYYe87b9wReview by Film Critics: Noncompusmentus and Wu~ Ming~CATEGORY: Short Subjects. Very Foreign Film. Title: Bambi Meets Godzilla.Certainly a classic in the genre, and a cult favorite. I enjoyed it but must say the portrayals were a bit cartoonish..A bit too long getting to the crux of the plot. Perhaps just a bit more editing would have helped. How many times can an actor ( Bambi) be expected to hold ones interest raising and lowering his head. A glance to the side perhaps? A frolic in the flowers perchance? Something to give us an insight into his character. The vegetation was rather prosaic as well, a bush in the foreground would have provided more depth.I was particularly taken in by the monochromatic initial frames expecting as in W. O. OZ, a shift to color which unfortunately never came. Personally I think the use of color in the conclusion would have graphically heightened the dramatic effect. The director must have thought it would detract from the sudden impact, but the overall effect was strikingly disappointing. Somehow we expected more from the plot. After all, Godzilla a star in his own right certainly carried several films on his own creating a cult following. Godzilla is a natural leading actor whilst Bambi has been pretty much relegated mommies boy parts. Godzilla has usually demanded top billing and for unknown reasons (political influence by Disney?), never got it in this film, yet , he agreed to step into playing a cameo role.The title was a bit confusing.Bambi meets Godzilla ! !! That's is akin to a title saying The Joker Meets Batman. It doesn't work as a title. Obviously Godzilla is the larger better known actor. And surely the film shows clearly that it was Godzilla that in the end, met Bambi. It is also rumored that the mighty lizard worked to scale.I'm sure with more latitude the heroic lizard would have upstaged the deer little Bambi who never went on to bigger parts. He did however have many smaller parts subsequent to this film. As it turns out, Bambi was crushed by the lack of dialogue in his role having practiced enunciating the dialogue, ("Flower"), for weeks only to find he was to play a deer and sweet mute.The background music was a bit much. While It certainly succeeded in creating the pastoral and peaceful scene demanded, it was distracting in its corny, banal, commonplace, dull, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, melodramatic, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stupid, tired, warmed-over and just a bit boring in its repetitiveness.One can't help but fault the egotistic rendering of the rolling and repetitive credits (Marv Newland promotion) that took up so much over the introduction of the Bambi character and the subsequent scene. Less is more sir! Obviously the director was influenced by Quentin Tarantino.I think Godzilla's inspiration was perhaps based on an Eastwood role, Dirty Hairy.Though there was a touch of the Vigilante films character as well. The role of Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey was glaringly obvious to your critics. Bambi's acting was much reminiscent of in the Matrix, though certainly more dramatic than the Keanu Reeves portrayal might have been.One can only ponder the choice to go in two dimensions. Certainly 3D would have been the logical choice given the dramatic action in front of the camera lens. The final scene alone showed that dimension counted!Peripheral issues: There have been PETA objections to the violence towards animals in the film (long version), that thus far have fallen on deaf ears at the studio. Similarly Horticultural societies have condemned the casual and cavalier treatment in the collateral extinction of flora and fauna. Your reviewers must admit the destruction of the secondary scenery was both devastating and unnecessary to make the point.On enlarged views IMAX, we think we saw a single scurrying worm escape the crush and wiggle to freedom? Maybe symbolic of something? Perhaps a sequel?We noticed that while writer-Directer- etc. was over and over and over rolled onto the credits, no cast list was given. Crediting a foreign country like Tokyo was however a touch of class. Subtitles might have been nice for that audience ya think?We give it two thumbs up none the less, since the overall content was entertaining and stuck so closely to the book of the same title by the same old same old. (®).Wu~ & Noncom.

emasterslake I first heard of this short film back in the late 90s. But it wasn't until 2008 when I finally saw this curious short on the internet. And surprising enough it was shorter than I expected it to be.All these years I expected a lot more by the way the title goes. I mean even those who look at the title would guess what it's about. So can't say much since it's a short film.Anyways not to give much away. I discovered why this is such an acclaim short animated film is that it's all animated by one person hand drawn frame by frame. Making it hard working effort that pays off at the end. I see very few short animations these days that are like this. Since a lot of things these days are done digitally. And even if this was done on computer, it be no different from what it is.I can imagine the guy who did this whole short is mighty proud of himself that he's being remembered for a one of a kind animated short film. And this short isn't that hard to find if you know where to search for it.