The scene where Bambi thinks he's hearing his mother is actually a hunter using deer sounds to attract wild deers. That's why dogs appear "out of nowhere". And the reason he just stands there is because those same dogs were after his mom seconds before she died. So he's paralyzed with fear because of his trauma.

I think you really misunderstood this film. In my opinion, Bambi II is stronger than the original, because instead of focusing on a forced love story, the film depicts the struggles of a single father who was not in a position or ready to raise a child, but with the death of bambi's mother the great prince has no choice but to forge a relationship with his son. In the beginning he does his best to not become attached to Bambi, planning on finding another doe to rear him, but as the film progresses the bond between father and son awakens. I still tear up to this day watching the grasshopper scene where Bambi's father finally opens up and just has fun with him.

This film is about an estranged father who doesn't think he's equipped to raise a child forming a relationship with his son after the son's mother has died and about a child coming to terms with the death of his mother... It's a really good movie.

His mother did actually die in the first movie. The call that’s heard is a hunter using a deer call, which makes Bambii believe it’s his mother. The dogs are from the hunter. He stands there due to being practically paralyzed by fear. Kinda sad but it makes a little more sense.

Plot twist he was in Hollywood and his room was a green screen

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“Isolation is the combat to child’s fear.” Elsa’s parents nodding in agreement

This is one of the few times that I gotta STORNGLY disagree with you on a review. The whole point of the movie is to show the aftermath of loss and how people deal with grief, and I think it does a really good job of tackling how the Prince had to learn how to be a single dad in spite of gender norms and his own issues with expressing vulnerability. It also shows how Bambi had to struggle with an emotionally unavailable father during the aftermath of a loss that completely changed his world. Is it perfect? Absolutely not, there's definitely some filler scenes and dumb jokes. But I think this is one of the best Disney sequels because it does tackle such difficult emotional concepts. Also to address some of your specific criticisms more: Mina (the replacement mom) IS seen after she's freed by the Prince. It's during the scene where Bambi wakes up from the fall and she backs away as she sees him and the Prince being affectionate, because she knows that she's no longer needed. As for Ronno, I feel like it was pretty obvious that he felt threatened by Bambi because Bambi had a bunch of friends and also had a (relatively) close relationship with the Prince, so he tried to one-up him by acting bigger, tougher, and braver to impress everyone else.

OH NO! DO YOU THINK BAMBI DIES IN THIS MID-QUEL?!

In this part we find out bambi’s mom was a Disney sequel fake out death the whole time 🤭

"The dogs come after him and Bambi just stands there." Have you ever seen a deer when it's scared? Freezing is just as common as running away, if not more so. I would know, I live in an area with so many deer that the first day of deer hunting season is a day off from school.

"I don't believe that kind of person exists." SOMEONE wasn't on deviantart in 2009. Yes, there was a Bambi fandom. Yes, there were Ronno stans.

the antagonist deer kid just looks like a deer version of kovu from lion king 2

I dunno if this helpful but I heard that when Bambi hears his mom's voice it was actually just the sound of a deer whistle used by a hunter

bambi stands there vaccantly.... you could say he was frozen like... a deer... in the headlights

Tbh, out of most of the Disney Sequels...I actually like this one quite a bit. It was absolutely not needed, but I thought seeing the relationship between Bambi and his father grow in the movie was pretty wholesome.

this is the best disney sequel and i will die on that hill

YES! Finally, there's a movie about the origin of Bambi and the deer Bambi fights off.

8:07 deer in real life are known to freeze in place if frightened. Admittedly this doesn’t happen often, and usually is from them freezing right before a car hits them, but it’s common enough that Bambi freezing right here is actually realistic

If anyone is confused why Bambi thinks he hears his mother what he is hearing is a hunter using a doe call. Which is low key dark if you stop to think about it.

Plot twist: bambi 2 is a time travel film where he is forced to go back in time and kill his mom

How can ppl actually hate this movie, it's one of the best Disney prequels

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Seamus: This is the longest it’s ever been between the original and the sequel. The 400 years between the Old Testament and the New Testament: Am I a joke to you?

I actually love this film, the music, the relationship with his dad and learning how to deal with the death of a loved one. I was hoping someone else would like it too...

Hunting probably isn’t common where you live but the voice of Bambi’s mom is definitely a hunter using a deer call, which is also where the dogs and lights come from.

My dad is probably the only person who stans Bambi like that lol. He loves those films so much. Growin up we'd even do Bambi marathons where we paused the film after his mom died, watched the sequel, and then restarted the original.

Someone should make a compilation of Seamus singing the titles of these movies. It would be so great.

Yes. He has returned

“And it wasn’t named by a transphobe” The shaaaddddeeee I’m here for it

I feel like this one you really did a bad job with. First of all freezing is a natural response to fear so it's perfectly normal for Bambi to react like that. Bambi's friends are there for comedic effect and I think they do that job well. His relationship with his father was also well developed in my opinion it shows how fathers are often torn between doing what's "expected" of them and raising their children like a father should. Which I guess breaks the norms and shows progression. So yeah that's my thoughts and I can't believe you rated it so low

7:55 Deer hunters can produce sounds that sound like various deer calls to lure deers when hunting them. Bambi "hearing his mom" is actually him hearing a hunter trying to lure him in. The dogs that come changing after him are the hunter's dogs. Bambi freezes because that's what deer do when they're distressed, it's the same reason they often freeze in front of cars when crossing the road. "It doesn't make any sense" Yes it does Seamus

When I was a kid I always thought, okay if Stagman is the only adult male around then that means all the deer kiddos are siblings.

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I always thought it was the hunter who used one of those deer-calling-things to lure Bambi out onto the meadow and then charged his dogs at him though 🤔

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Why isn't anyone talking about how the antagonist kid looks like a deer version of Kovu?

this is one of, if not the, most accomplished, moving, and well-written disney sequels. the animation is just as beautiful as the original, as are the plot and music. it’s as close to perfect as we’re ever going to see. i cry every single time i watch it. just a few ‘fun’ facts: - the reason bambi runs back to mina to sacrifice himself to the dogs is because what she yells after him (“run, bambi, don’t look back”) is word for word what his mother said to him before she died. he was suddenly confronted with these emotionally loaded words, screamed at him by another doe who was going to die for him, and he decided in that blur of grief and anger and fear that this time he was going to change it. this time, he was going to save her. just writing that makes me tear up - it’s genuinely such a mature, traumatic scene. and the lighting in the dog chase and the first dog scene in the open field? i mean it with my full chest when i say it’s genius. the raw terror of the latter is perfectly in line with the trauma of the original movie when the birds are cowering in the grass and one of them goes mad with fear, starts screaming “he’s getting closer, i can’t take it” while the others are frantically whispering “don’t fly, don’t fly”, and is killed when she leaves her hiding spot. - we know beyond a doubt that the hunter was using an instrument to mimic the call of a doe because ronno mentions it when he’s boasting about seeing a hunter with a stick that changed his voice. that wasn’t just a pointless bit of dialogue to introduce him as an antagonist - it held vital information, and showed that he wasn’t a liar after all. even if he only heard that story from an older deer, the information is absolutely true. ronno was an excellent antagonist because he was fundamentally just a sad, lonely fawn who didn’t know how to make friends and thought that maybe impressing them might work.

this is the first time i'm going to have to hard disagree with you, and tbh i think you were overly critical/harsh with this film. (e.g. you had an issue with bambi freezing in the face of danger when that's something deer actually do and that plenty of humans are also guilty of.) personally, i loved it as a kid, and i still love it now. it's my second favorite sequel after TLK 2. the songs are still stuck in my head ("there is love" and "first sign of spring" are great), the relationship development between father/son is solid, the "fakeout death" actually made me emotional even in spite of me knowing bambi wasn't dead, which marks a GOOD execution of it imo.

When he hears his dead mum that's actually supposed to be a hunter using a deer sound to attract Bambi, that's why hunting dogs appear outta nowhere

I'm still convinced I'm the only person who actually likes Bambi 2

I disagree, Bambi 2 was actually pretty good. I like the relationship growth between Bambi and his father

It was a hunter making a deer call. That's why he thought it was his mom and then the dogs were hunting dogs.

Bruh, I don't think you actually understood the film. It deals with Bambi's trauma and his growing relationship with his father. This film actually gives the Great Prince a personality and he even makes bad parenting decisions at first but corrects them later on. The film also further develops characters like Faline and Ronno. I actually love this film since I was a little kid but ig its not for everyone.

Disney originals fake out death, BAMBIES MUM IS ALIVE!

Bambi’s mom was a DISNEY PREQUEL ACTUAL DEATH

I just watched Bambi 2 a few weeks ago and the adoptive mom actually didn’t just disappear. I remember she was there when bambi “died” and his father was mourning him, but when bambi woke up and everything was good, the adoptive mom actually looked at friend owl and realized that she wasn’t needed and quietly left.

Personally I did like this film, it was nice to see more of Bambi's father learn to be more like a dad and toss his toxic masculinity traits away to raise his son (though not all of it since the first Bambi still features him to be rough). So I think this is honestly one of Disney's best sequels (but I still think Cinderella 3 is my favorite among them before they got Pixar).

1. Patrick Stewart deer is Bambi's dad. I think the movie and the original made that clear. 2. Him hearing his dead mom is because a hunter was using a deer call to lure other deer and I guess that's how they hear it on their end. 3. Why did Bambi just stand there? Ever heard of Deer in the headlights?

I love this movie, it’s a huge part of my childhood. It has so many parts about it that I love, the music, the plot, the character development. It is the same deer from the original movie which as a kid I loved that they did that. Bambi losses his mother and he is ends up having to live with his father. Which is a very powerful message, in general male deers having nothing to do with their off spring so having a very old respectable character in this universe take on the role of a caretaker for Bambi is such a emotional thing. Throughout the movie Bambi tries to find ways to impress his father so he can create a much better bound with him and having his father be genuinely proud of his son. I love how this movie isn’t goofy and fun the entire time, I think it’s important to have animated movies for children than talk about family issues. Yes, thumper, flower and faline could be seen as annoying but they are just like the original characters from the first film. Bambi never had to worry about being a “man” until he lost his mother which has changed his character to so he wants to be more brave and masculine to prove his worth to his father and show his rival that he is not a push over. When Bambi is sent away his father was worried about the image he was portraying and that he was becoming “soft” because the males don’t take care of the fawns and it is not the norm. He wanted Bambi to have a mother when all bambi wanted was to stay with his true family. I love this movie, the music, all the fun and serious parts. This movie holds a very special place in my heart. And yes, the ending made me cry because we actually see that Bambi’s father loved the mother and tried to do this part to continue the life he had even after her death but his son has fully changed his perspective on what being a father is. I AM THAT PERSON WHO LOVES BAMBI, IM A BAMBI STAN, I EXITST

Your dislike of movies with less dialogue is probably why you think that the masterpiece that is WALL-E is overrated.

Bambi 2 is probably actually my favorite Disney film. I loved seeing his father learn to be a single dad.

The ongoing shade joke is my favorite thing and should continue into future videos.

This movie holds, like, a really special place in my heart because i saw it when i was fairly young and was just starting to notice the abscense of my father in my life, so seeing this movie (of which i loved the one before it) really helped me go through the rough times in that part of my life- u know, seeing bambi and his father's relationship go along and improve so much over the course of the movie and stuff. and i know it's silly sharing this types of life stories online and i am fairly aware of the obvious mistakes there are with this movie of course jsjs but, i don't know, seeing someone talk critically about it made me love it even more for some reason? so i thought i shared that. Awesome video btw! i really enjoy your content a lot!

Fun fact: Bambi is based on the book (which is much darker then the film) and Bambi II plot is also based on the same book. Bambi and Bambi II together actually make closer interpretation to the book then original film alone.

I actually like the sequel more than the original. I think it captures the relation between a child and someone who's never raised a child exceptionally well.

bambi 2 did successfully get me into bambi as a child even though it wasn’t ~fun~. they were my favorite movies growing up and i watched them on repeat. guess i just always loved that sad sad angst.

AS A BAMBI STAN I AM DEEPLY OFFENDED THIS IS MY 2ND FAVORITE FILM AFTER THE ORIGINAL!

I mean, I think the scene where Bambi hears his mother calling is the hunter using something to attract dears or something like that idk

4:24 I don't care anyone says I found the movie fun and it's emotional and heartwarming, It went on the characters on bambi's father and I liked we saw more of there bonding.

What’s-his-face: a prince does not “whoohoo” Anyone who has ever played the sims: no-STOP IT!!! IN THE BIN YA GO!!! YOU CANT SAY THAT IN THAT TONE JUST-NO IN THE BIN

As someone from Wyoming, I can totally attest to deer just “being mean” or just stupid from time to time

Also, the animation of this movie is GORGEOUS.

This movie, though very much so different tone wise, holds a very dear place in my heart. My mom died of cancer my freshman year and I couldn’t be with her during her last moments. Seeing Bambi’s mom touches my heart every time

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"Isolation is the way to combat a child's fear. I mean... I'm sure this made sense to someone" To Anna and Elsa's parents it sure did

The shade gag is killing me

I can’t wait for Frozen 3, in which Elsa spends the entire time in her room, a clever nod to Tangled 2, which took place entirely in Rapunzel’s tower ...

I actually really liked this one as a kid havent watched it in so long you made me want to rewatch it

Bambi 2 has amazing quality compared to all the other disney sequels, plot-wise and animation-wise - I actually personally like it better than the first Bambi movie since it has more lines and the score is just magnificent. This was the childhood film I never grew out of to love and to this day, the fact that the emotions captured in Bambi 2 can dehydrate me in just several minutes astonishes me.

Did you know the film is based on a book? It’s actually really good. Ronno is in the book and Bambi does fight him for Faline, so they’re putting in some more stuff from the book in the sequel, basically.

Correct if I’m wrong but don’t deers stand still sometimes when their terrified

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This one is actually pretty good. Is it necessary? No... Is it any better than the original? Meh... Hard to tell since they have almost completely different style and way to tell the story. But it’s actually much more enjoyable than something like Pocahontas 2... Also, I think you are a bit unfair to the “fake mom call scene”. It’s obvious they were referring to deer call that hunter often use to lure deer into shooting range, which I found pretty clever. The dog attack in the same scene was... Rather unrealistic since hunters don’t just let dog run over a deer they about to shoot (also who the hell would hunt a fawn???), but hey the first bambi’s hunting scene weren’t realistic either.

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the fact that bambi 2 is called a sequel yet it takes place during the original bambi is the real shocker so what do we call it since its not a prequel or a sequel so yeah you could technically watch bambi then pause after the mother death and the father shows up put on bambi 2 till it ends then resume the bambi movie thus i give you Bambi the completed timeline story movie???

his titles are hilarious! 😂

Did you kind of miss the point with 'antagonist deer?' From what I remember hes constantly hitting on Feline and being a jerk and trying to tell her what to do and where to go. That's why he and Bambi constantly fight, plus he's just a bully and bambi is defending himself.

One of the best sounds of the week: Disney Sequels Show!!!!

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Bambi 2 is my absolute favourite disney sequel, I thought it was really fun

“Isolation is the way to combat a child's fear.” Me: * glances at ‘Frozen’ * Yeah, seems about right.

Me who likes this movie because I like having both the dad and bambi develop their characters to be more round and feels it is one of the disney sequels that slots in the best with the original by working within the confines of the movie without dramatically changing the original’s context: 😳

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I actually see Bambi’s father as the main character in this film, not Bambi. I kinda see this movie as a way to flush him and Bambi’s relationship we didn’t get to see in the first movie. He is the one who gets the character arc, and ultimately ends up learning from his son the same way his son learned from him. I personally think it’s a nice story, and I like it. But that’s just my opinion. ^^

When Bambi fell and when his father found him lying there becuse I knew it was a midqual it looked more that Bambis father was concerned that his son was badly injured than already believing that he was dead.

I've never really encountered a bad reviewer but this dude definitely is one. 💀

Okay but.... bambi 2 was my childhood

Disney sequels!? Patience!? The universe is coming to an end!!

I’m that Bambi fan u thought didn’t exist 😞

Yes, I agree this was a hecking weird and unnecessary Disney sequel, but the part where Bambi follows his mom's voice is actually super creepy and heartbreaking because the voice was actually a hunter playing a deer call to draw out game. Thought it was a cool detail for people to know:)

Seamus, you have the most amusing fan base.

Missed opportunity for a segment of “Seamus complains about the title.”

8:10 "Stag-Man fights them of... somehow?" You are aware, that grown deer are very strong, right? He also got those cool antlers, that are an effectiv weapon.

*They didn’t even make it about his children.*

Me: am probably the only person who actually liked this movie. It was fine but a guilty pleasure of mine when I’m bored 😅

Disbey: You thought your grandparents' childhood trauma was bad enough? **slams sequel on table**

love what you've done with the lighting seamus

7:54 in that part you have to know that the hunters use small flutes so that the deer think they are listening to another deer and then the voice of Bambi's mother is actually the sound of the hunter's flute