Disney's Bambi 0II

**Disney's Bambi 0II** is .

## Plot

Taking place in the middle of the original *Bambi*, the film opens with the scene where Bambi (voiced by Alexander Gould) is wandering the forest for his mother, not realizing she has been killed by Man. His father, the Great Prince of the Forest (Patrick Stewart), finds him, breaks the sad news and leads Bambi back to his den under a fallen tree, the Great Prince asks Friend Owl (Keith Ferguson) to find a doe to raise Bambi, but Friend Owl points out that due to the harsh winter season the does can barely care for themselves. The Great Prince has no choice but to look after Bambi until the spring. Spring is slowly beginning to return to the forest (the song sequence "There is Life") The sun breaks through the clouds and the ice and snow begin to melt. Hibernating animals wake up and migratory birds begin to return. On top of the fallen tree that makes the Great Prince's den, a small green plant begins to grow. **Bambi wakes up late. He eats, and the two go to the forest. The prince eventually lets Bambi go with his friends. While walking, Bambi tells Thumper that he and the Great Prince are "best pals," though Bambi has doubts about the Great Prince's affection. They wake up the hibernating Flower (Nicky Jones) and go to see the Groundhog together, where Friend Owl is presiding over the event and it is here that Bambi meets Faline again. The nervous Groundhog (Brian Pimental) is eventually coaxed out of his hole, only be scared back in again by Ronno (Anthony Ghannam), an older fawn. Ronno laughs, but the other animals leave. Ronno catches up to them and ends in an argument with Bambi. Ronno's mother eventually calls Ronno away, and Bambi is left alone to sleep under a tree and wait for the Great Prince to return after Thumper, Flower and Faline leave with their families. Bambi finds himself in a shining golden meadow and begins chasing butterflies. As he does so, he hears his mother's voice calling him. Overjoyed, he runs towards her and begins to nuzzle her lovingly. His mother comforts him, telling him that she's there even though he can't see her. As the dream fades Bambi continues to hear her voice saying "I'm here," which confuses him. He begins to believe that the voice is his mother's after it says "It's me!", so he follows it out onto the meadow where a flock of crows flies past screaming about Man. As Bambi looks towards the source of the disturbance Hunter Dogs runs towards him, causing Bambi to freeze in terror. Elsewhere, the Great Prince hears the crows and suddenly becomes concerned for Bambi. He runs to where the crows were flying from and arrives in time to fight the dogs and save Bambi. As the dogs run back to their master, the Great Prince sees the glint of a rifle and yells at the still frozen Bambi to run. After a nudge from the Great Prince's antlers, Bambi snaps out of his trance and the two escape to safety. Bambi explains that he heard his mother's voice. The Great Prince angrily says that it was one of Man's tricks. Bambi tries to apologize, but the Great Prince is very cross and reprimands Bambi for freezing in the face of peril. He calms down and orders Bambi to immediately return home with him and possibly never come back to that place ever again, where the realization of his mother's death begins to dawn in Bambi's mind. The Great Prince leaves to reflect on the situation and finds Friend Owl. The Great Prince notes that winter is coming to an end and that Friend Owl should have no trouble finding a doe to be Bambi's new mother, meaning that Bambi is possibly an orphan.** The next morning, the Great Prince orders Bambi to stay in the den where it's safe since he would not trust him to go out on his own again. Bambi is crestfallen, as he wants to be with his father. Thumper and Flower ask Bambi what's wrong, and Bambi says he wants his father to see how brave he is. Thumper decides to teach Bambi how to be brave (you have to be scarier than what's scaring you), and Bambi, Thumper, and Flower walk through the forest, practicing their new skills until they come to a log guarded by a grumpy porcupine, which terrifies them. They flee back to the bank, and Thumper sees the Great Prince. Since Bambi is supposed to be back at the den, Thumper suggests they leave. But Bambi realizes that this is a good opportunity to show his newfound bravery. The Great Prince turns to leave, and Thumper goes to distract him and bring him back. Bambi goes to confront the porcupine. Bambi leaps over the porcupine, angering him. The porcupine stiffens his quills and begins chasing Bambi backward and forwards across the log. Thumper brings the Great Prince to see Bambi "being brave", but when he notices Bambi in trouble, he leads the Great Prince away. After a short struggle, the porcupine is propelled into the air by a piece of wood and lands quills-first on Bambi's rear. Bambi yells out in pain, causing the Great Prince to go and investigate the noise, much to Thumper's dismay. Bambi ducks down under the water so as not to be seen, and the Great Prince leaves. Thumper begins to pull the quills out of Bambi's rear. **Ronno and Faline are nearby, and Ronno is showing off to Faline until she hears Bambi cry out in pain. Bambi cries out again, and Faline runs to see him. Ronno yells after her, seemingly hurt by losing her attention. Faline and Ronno go and see Bambi, and Ronno teases Bambi after the meadow incident where Bambi froze. Ronno decides that he and Faline should leave, but Faline wants to stay. Ronno tries to force Faline to leave, and Bambi stands up for her. Ronno comes back to confront Bambi and tease Flower and Thumper, causing Thumper to push Bambi so that he headbutts Ronno. Ronno is furious and chases Thumper and Bambi through the forest.** Bambi comes to a large jump, and to his surprise he clears it with ease. The Great Prince appears and begins to tell Bambi off for leaving the den, but interrupts himself when he notices that Bambi cleared the jump, saying that he didn't make a jump that far until he had antlers. Bambi is delighted at the positive attention, but the Great Prince composes himself and the three leave. Ronno tries to clear the jump as well but falls and lands in the mud. The next day, Bambi practices his jumping with Thumper. The Great Prince sees this and smiles but becomes serious when Friend Owl arrives and says that the search for a new mother is going well. The Great Prince does not concentrate and is more concerned with Bambi's jumping. Friend Owl notices this and slyly hints that the Great Prince might have changed his mind. The Great Prince, annoyed, confirms that he has not. He then walks past Bambi's jumping lesson, seemingly taking little interest in it. Bambi is confused as his jumping drew praise the day before. Bambi says that the Great Prince has been standing around and contemplating a lot. Thumper suggests that Bambi should go and ask the Great Prince about it. Bambi does so, and the Great Prince says that he is observing - looking, listening and smelling for danger all at the same time. The Great Prince says that Bambi should try to "feel the forest" (feel vibrations through his hooves for abnormalities in forest activity). The Great Prince leaves and Bambi turns to head back to the den, but the Great Prince wants Bambi to come with him. The two journey through the forest and join the stags as they participate in their annual run. Through this, the bond between father and son deepens (the song sequence "First Sign of Spring"). **The next morning as Bambi and the Great Prince play, Friend Owl arrives with Mena, the doe he has found to be Bambi's new mother. When Bambi finds out about Mena's true purpose, he angrily snaps at his father for sending him away, reaching a point when he says that he wishes his mother was with him instead of his father and runs off, heartbroken. After saying goodbye to his friends and the Great Prince, Bambi, who seems to accept the change even though he's upset, leaves with Mena. Ronno appears and continues to tease him about Bambi's father sending him away. This causes an enraged Bambi to charge at Ronno, and the two fight. Mena disrupts the fight, but Ronno charges into Bambi, causing Bambi to knock Mena into a trap attached to jingling bells. As Mena struggles, the bells jingle and alert Man and the hunting dogs to her position. Ronno flees in terror, screaming for his mother, and Bambi freezes again. He quickly snaps out of it and begins to run as well, but as Mena is encouraging him to run, she unknowingly quotes Bambi's late mother's last words, saying, "Faster Bambi, don't look back! Keep running! Keep running!" hearing this he pauses and doubles back to distract the four dogs away from Mena. The Great Prince arrives and frees Mena from the trap before going after Bambi. Bambi manages to lose some of the dogs (one with the help of Flower's scent glands and another with help from the grumpy porcupine) and begins to climb a steep, rocky cliff. One of the dogs slips and falls, leaving only one chasing after Bambi. Bambi climbs to a high ledge and dislodges some rocks, which do nothing to the dog. As the dog closes in, Bambi kicks it in the chest, causing it to fall to the bottom of the cliff. The Great Prince sees this and is relieved. Bambi goes to join him, but the ledge beneath Bambi gives way, and he falls. The Great Prince goes to him and believes the prince to be dead. He nuzzles his son tenderly and sobs. Friend Owl, Mena, Flower, and Thumper arrive to see what is happening. As the Great Prince gets up to leave, Bambi wakes up. The Great Prince, relieved, begins to nuzzle his son again, causing Bambi to smile at the attention. Mena turns and leaves, knowing that the Great Prince wanted to take care of Bambi after all. A while later, Thumper tells the exaggerated story of how Bambi defeated the dogs. Bambi arrives, now with a pair of antlers starting to grow in and without his spots. The porcupine pricks Bambi's legs with his quills, causing Bambi to leap forward and accidentally engage Faline in a kiss. Ronno arrives and swears revenge against Bambi and steps on a turtle who bites him on the nose, making him run away, screaming for his mother. Bambi leaves as his father is calling him. The Great Prince takes Bambi to a forest glade, saying that this was the place where he first met Bambi's mother. Bambi asks what the Great Prince was like when he was Bambi's age, and the Great Prince says that he was a lot like Bambi.**

Fawn Bambi wanders through the forest searching for his mother, not realizing that she has been killed by Man and only learning this truth when he is found by his father, the Great Prince of the Forest, who takes his son back home with him. Prioritizing his duties as the Great Prince over being a father, the Great Prince asks Friend Owl to find a doe to raise Bambi, which Friend Owl promises to do by spring. **Sometime later, Bambi, who still lives with the Great Prince for the time being, meets up with his friends Thumper, Flower, and Thumper's sisters, and the seven go together to see the groundhog as he makes his prediction about the future weather. There, they see other friends of theirs such as Faline and Friend Owl. The groundhog, upon not seeing his shadow, declares that spring has begun, much to the joy of all around.** The celebration of the arrival of spring is cut short when young Ronno obnoxiously interrupts and scares away the groundhog. He tries to impress Bambi and his friends by telling a story about an encounter with Man where Man tried to lure Ronno using a deer call but Ronno attacked Man instead. An argument erupts when Faline and Bambi doubt the validity of the story but is cut short by Ronno's mother calling for her son. **As his friends disperse, Bambi is left alone to sleep under a tree and wait for the Great Prince to find him and take him home. He finds himself in a shiny golden meadow filled with butterflies. There, he hears his mother's voice call him and sees her once again as he nuzzles her lovingly and she assures him that she will always be with him.** Even when his dream fades away, Bambi continues to hear her voice saying "I'm here," which confuses him. Believing that he really is hearing his mother's voice and that she is still alive, he goes out onto the meadow, the place from which her voice was coming from. There, flock of crows, screaming about Man, fly past. As Bambi looks towards the source of the disturbance, Man's hunting dogs run towards him, causing Bambi to freeze in terror. Elsewhere, the Great Prince hears the crows and suddenly becomes concerned for his son. He rushes to the meadow and arrives in time to fight the dogs and save Bambi. As the dogs run back to their master, the Great Prince sees the glint of a rifle and yells at the still-frozen Bambi to run. After a nudge from the Great Prince's antlers, Bambi snaps out of his trance, and the two escape to safety. When Bambi tries to explain that he only went out onto the meadow because he heard his mother's voice, the Great Prince angrily tells him that the voice was a trick from Man and chides him for freezing in the face of peril. **The two return home, where Bambi begins to come to terms with the fact that his mother is really dead and is never coming back. The Great Prince leaves to reflect on the situation, finds Friend Owl, and encourages him to continue his search for an adoptive mother for Bambi.** The next morning, the Great Prince tells Bambi not to follow him as he performs his princely duties and to stay in the den. Bambi is crestfallen, as he wants to be with his father. He reveals to Thumper and Flower that he wishes he was brave like his father. Thumper offers to teach Bambi how to be brave, advising him to "be scarier than what's scaring you". **Bambi, Thumper and Flower walk through the forest practicing their bravery until they come to a log guarded by the grump Porcupine, who terrifies them. When he realizes that the Great Prince is standing nearby, Bambi sees this situation as a good opportunity to show off his new-found bravery by confronting Porcupine and crossing the log. Thumper runs off to get the Great Prince's attention while Bambi confronts Porcupine, ignoring his complaints and leaping right over him, much to Porcupine's chagrin. Porcupine stiffens his quills and begins chasing Bambi backwards and forwards across the log.** Thumper brings the Great Prince to see Bambi "being brave", but when he realizes Bambi is being chased and humiliated, he leads the Great Prince away. After a short struggle, Porcupine is propelled into the air by a piece of wood and lands quills-first on Bambi's rear. Bambi yells out in pain, causing the Great Prince to go and investigate the noise, much to Thumper's dismay. Bambi ducks down under the water so as not to be seen, and the Great Prince leaves. **Thumper returns to Bambi and begins plucking out the quills, which causes the fawn to cry out in pain. Ronno and Faline are nearby and hear Bambi's cries, which causes Faline to run to him to check on him, much to the dismay of Ronno, who was showing off in front of her. When he sees Bambi, Ronno teases him for the meadow incident where Bambi froze. He then decides that he and Faline are going to leave and begins pushing Faline away from Bambi against her will. When Bambi demands that Ronno leave Faline alone, Ronno confronts the Young Prince in anger and begins teasing Flower and Thumper. Angered, Thumper pushes Bambi into Ronno, which makes Ronno furious and begins a chase through the forest as Ronno runs after Thumper and Bambi, who are fleeing from his wrath.** During the chase, Bambi comes to a large jump, which, to his surprise, he clears with ease, putting distance between him and Ronno and ending the chase. The Great Prince appears and begins to fuss at Bambi for leaving the den, but stops himself when he notices the large jump that Bambi, remarking that even he couldn't jump that far until he had antlers. Bambi is delighted at the positive attention, but the Great Prince composes himself and the three leave. **The next day, Bambi, who has realized that his jumping skills make his father proud, practices his jumping with Thumper. The Great Prince is pleased to see his son practicing but still confirms to Friend Owl that he does not wish to continue to raise Bambi and wants for an adoptive mother to be found for him. When the Great Prince walks stiffly past him, Bambi is confused at the stiffness as his jumping drew praise the day before. Thumper suggests that Bambi go and talk to the Great Prince. Bambi does go talk to his father and learns from him about observing, which the Great Prince describes as looking, listening and smelling for danger all at the same time. The Great Prince then teaches Bambi how to "feel the forest", and the two bond more than they ever have as they travel through the forest together.** The next morning, Friend Owl approaches the Great Prince and the Bambi, who are now closer than ever before, to introduce them to Mena, the doe who is to be Bambi's adoptive mother. Bambi protests the idea of being sent away from his father, but the Great Prince reluctantly forces him to. After saying goodbye to his friends and the Great Prince, Bambi leaves with Mena, as the two are going to live in a distant part of the forest. As Bambi and Mena are leaving, Ronno approaches Bambi and begins teasing him about his estrangement from his father. Bambi, enraged, charges at Ronno and overtakes him. Mena tries to stop the fight, but Ronno charges into Bambi, causing Bambi to knock Mena into a trap set by Man, which immediately alerts him and his hunting dogs of her location. As the dogs rush towards the three, Ronno flees in terror, Mena remains trapped, and Bambi freezes again. He quickly snaps out of it and begins to flee but doubles back to distract the four dogs away from Mena, causing them to case him instead of her and thereby saving her life. **The Great Prince arrives and frees Mena from the trap before going after Bambi. Bambi manages to lose some of the dogs (one with the help of Flower's scent glands, and another with help from the grumpy porcupine) and begins to climb a steep, rocky cliff. One of the dogs slips and falls, leaving only one dog still chasing after Bambi. He climbs to a high ledge and dislodges some rocks, which do nothing to the dog. As the dog closes in, Bambi kicks it in the chest, causing it to fall to the bottom of the cliff. The Great Prince sees this and is relieved, but the ledge beneath Bambi begins to crumble, sending a helpless Bambi plummeting towards the ground. Bambi is presumed dead, much to the grief of Friend Owl, Mena, Flower, Thumper, and the Great Prince, who cries at the thought of having lost his son. To everyone's surprise and joy, Bambi regains consciousness.** Sometime later, Thumper tells some of his friends an exaggerated tale about how Bambi defeated the hunting dogs. His storytelling is interrupted by none other than Bambi, now with a pair of small antlers and without his spots. While there with his friends, Bambi accidentally kisses Faline and sees Ronno again, who swears revenge on Bambi only to be sent away screaming after being bitten by a turtle. Bambi then leaves his friends to go be with the Great Pricne, who takes him to the forest glade where he first met Bambi's mother. Bambi asks what the Great Prince was like when he was Bambi's age, and the Great Prince says that he was a lot like Bambi.

**After his mother is shot and killed by a hunter, Bambi is greeted by the Great Prince, who takes him to the den. The Great Prince asks Friend Owl to find a doe to raise Bambi, but Friend Owl tells him that the does can barely feed themselves. The Great Prince has to take care of Bambi for a while.** Sometime later, the Great Prince allows Bambi to be with Thumper and Flower. At the groundhog ceremony, Bambi meets up with Faline. The Groundhog is coaxed out of his hole, only to be scared back in by Ronno, who tries to impress Faline with stories of his encounter with Man. When Bambi believes the story, Ronno is about to fight Bambi until he is called away by his mother. **When the others leave, Bambi falls asleep waiting for his father. He wakes up to what appears to be his mother's voice, which calls him into a meadow, but it turns out to be an ambush by Man. The Great Prince comes to Bambi's rescue and saves him in time, but is furious that he fell for the trick and almost getting himself killed. Days later, Bambi informs Thumper and Flower about his wish to impress his father. They decide to help Bambi be brave, but while doing so, they encounter a porcupine, who sticks his quills into Bambi's backside. Ronno and Faline, hearing the commotion, investigate; Bambi sees Ronno bothering Faline and gets into a fight with him. Ronno chases Bambi and Thumper through the forest until Bambi leaps over a large ravine to safety. The Great Prince, having seen the whole thing, is impressed by this feat. Ronno, jealous of the young prince, tries to jump over the chasm himself, but falls in, thwarted for now.** The next day, Thumper encourages Bambi to talk to the Great Prince, and the two connect. The Great Prince allows Bambi to come along with him on his patrols, and as the two get closer, Friend Owl approaches them and introduces them to Mena, a doe that he has selected as Bambi's new mother. Bambi realizes the Great Prince had planned on sending him away and snaps at his father, while the Great Prince concludes that he is not meant to raise Bambi. Bambi sadly accepts the change. **On the way to Mena's den, Ronno shows up to taunt Bambi again. The two get into another fight that sets off one of Man's traps, alerting Man. Bambi saves Mena by leading Man's dogs away from her, and the Great Prince arrives. The dogs chase Bambi, and his friends help him fend them off. Bambi evades all but one of the dogs. Bambi kicks the other dog off a cliff but falls off as well. Everyone grieves him until Bambi reveals he is still alive, and he and the Great Prince reconcile.** Sometime later, Thumper shares his version of the chase with the rest of his friends, and Bambi, whose antlers have just grown in, enjoys the tall tale with Faline. Ronno appears and vows vengeance on both of them before being bitten on the nose by a turtle and runs off. Bambi meets up with the Great Prince, who shows him the field where he first met his mother.

Picking up shortly after his mother's death, Bambi follows his father, the Great Prince, into the forest. With the help of Thumper and Flower, Bambi must win his father's approval, but the Great Prince finds that his high-spirited son may have a lesson or two to teach him as well.

## Voice-Cast

* Alexander Gould as Bambi, the young prince of the forest. His mother dies, and he has to be with his father. Andrew Collins served as the supervising animator for Bambi.
* Patrick Stewart as the Great Prince of the Forest. He is Bambi's father, and due to the death of Bambi's mother, The Great Prince is forced to be the fawn's guardian. Pieter Lommerse served as the supervising animator for the Great Prince.
* Brendon Baerg as Thumper. He and Flower are Bambi's friends who help him be brave to impress his father. Ian Harrowell served as the supervising animator for Thumper.
* Nicky Jones as Flower. He and Thumper are Bambi's friends who help him be brave to impress his father. Ian Harrowell served as the supervising animator for Flower.
* Andrea Bowen as Faline. She is Bambi's romantic interest and is part of a love triangle between Bambi and his future rival, Ronno.
* Anthony Ghannam as Ronno, Bambi's rival. He is the deer that Bambi fights in the original film. Bernard Derriman and Mark Henn served as the supervising animators for Ronno.
* Cree Summer as Mena. She is to be Bambi's adoptive mother, and is a childhood friend of Bambi's mother.
* Keith Ferguson as Friend Owl, who is told by The Great Prince to find a new mother for Bambi.
* Makenna Cowgill, Emma Rose Lima, and Ariel Winter as Thumper's sisters. They annoy Thumper, who tries to hide from them.
* Brian Pimental as The Groundhog and Porcupine. The Groundhog, timid, comes out of his hole to determine if winter will end. The Porcupine is grumpy and overprotective of his log.
* Carolyn Hennesy as Bambi's mother. She was shot by a hunter, and because of her death Bambi must be looked after by his father.

* Patrick Stewart - The Great Prince
* Alexander Gould - Bambi
* Brendon Baerg - Thumper
* Carolyn Hennesy - Bambi's Mother
* Nicky Jones - Flower
* Anthony Ghannam - Ronno
* Andrea Bowen - Faline
* Keith Ferguson - Friend Owl
* Cree Summer - Mena
* Brian Pimental - Groundhog/Porcupine
* Mary Day - Additional voice
* Harrison Fahn - Additional voice
* Makenna Cowgill, Emma Rose Lima and Ariel Winter - Thumper's Sisters
* Jordan Orr - Additional voice
* Alexis Restrum - Additional voice
* Grace Rolek - Additional voice
* Jennessa Rose - Additional voice
* George Shenusay - Additional voice
* Kath Soucie - Additional voice
* Frank Welker - Additional voice

* Bambi (voiced by Alexander Gould)
* The Great Prince of the Forest (voiced by Patrick Stewart)
* Thumper (voiced by Brendon Baerg)
* Flower (voiced by Nicky Jones)
* Faline (voiced by Andrea Bowen)
* Ronno (voiced by Anthony Ghannam)
* Mena (voiced by Cree Summer)
* Friend Owl (voiced by Keith Ferguson)
* Thumper's sisters (voiced by Makenna Cowgill, Emma Rose Lima, and Ariel Winter)
* The Groundhog (voiced by Brian Pimental)
* Porcupine (voiced by Brian Pimental)
* Bambi's mother (voiced by Carolyn Hennesy)
* Hunting Dogs (voiced by Frank Welker)
* Mama Bunny (voiced by Kath Soucie)
* Ronno's mother (voiced by Kath Soucie)
* Ena (voiced by June Foray)

* Alexander Gould: Bambi
* Patrick Stewart, Fred Shields (archived voice): The Great Prince of the Forest
* Brendon Baerg: Thumper
* Nicky Jones: Flower
* Andrea Bowen: Faline
* Anthony Ghannam: Ronno
* Keith Ferguson: Friend Owl
* Brian Pimental: Groundhog/Porcupine
* Carolyn Hennesy: Bambi's mother
* Cree Summer: Mena
* Ariel Winter, Emma Rose Lima, and Makenna Cowgill: Thumper's sisters
* Kath Soucie: Thumper’s mother, Ronno's mother
* Frank Welker: Dogs

### Additional Voices

* Mary Day - Various Animals
* Alexis Restrum - Various Animals
* George Shenusay - Animals
* Jordan Orr - Animal Kids

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* Harrison Fahn - Animal Kids
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* Grace Rolek - .
* Jennessa Rose - .
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