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Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest

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Not suitable under 5; parental guidance to 6 (emotionally intense and sad themes (death of parent, wild animals getting hunted), violence, scary scenes)

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This topic contains:

  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest
  • a review of Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 9 June 2026.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 5 Not suitable due to emotionally intense and sad themes (death of parent, wild animals getting hunted), violence, and scary scenes.
Children aged 5–6 Parental guidance recommended due to emotionally intense and sad themes (death of parent, wild animals getting hunted), violence, and scary scenes.
Children aged 7 and over Ok for this age group, though parental guidance is recommended for sensitive children due to emotionally intense and sad themes (death of parent, wild animals getting hunted).

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest
Classification: G
Consumer advice lines: The content is very mild in impact
Length: 70 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

Young fawn Bambi (voiced by Alexander Gould) is distraught and forlorn when hunters kill his mother. His father, the Great Prince of the Forest (voiced by Patrick Stewart) – the oldest and wisest stag in the forest – takes him into his care. Responsible for reigning over the forest and unfamiliar with raising young ones, the Great Prince wants to find a suitable foster mother as soon as possible. However, it turns out that in the dead of winter, the does can barely feed themselves let alone a young fawn. Reluctantly, the Great Prince agrees to look after Bambi until spring. Bambi is desperate to earn his father's appreciation and love, and live up to his title of the ‘Young Prince’ – which is sometimes difficult when being young, curious, and playful is getting into the way! When hunters and their mob of hunting dogs return to the forest, Bambi must use his skills and instincts to save himself, and his friends.

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Disney Classic; Father and Son Story; Circle of Life; Animal life in the forest; Love and Loss; Friendship; Courage.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

  • It is implied that hunters (referred to as "Man" and never depicted directly) have shot Bambi's mother.
  • Hunters lay traps in the forest to catch deer.
  • Bambi is chased by vicious hunting dogs that Bambi needs to trick and fight – it can be assumed that some get injured or killed.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:

  • Children might get upset by the thought that Bambi's mother has died.
  • There is an emotionally intense scene when Bambi is briefly reunited with his mother in a dream.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

  • Nothing further noted.

Aged eight to thirteeninfo

Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.

  • Nothing further noted.

Product placement

  • None noted.

Sexual references

  • None noted.

Nudity and sexual activity

  • None noted.

Use of substances

  • None noted.

Coarse language

  • None noted.

In a nutshell

Over 60 years after the release of the much-acclaimed Disney Classic Bambi, Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest takes the viewer back to the tragic moment when Bambi realises that he has lost his mother, and tells the untold story of the bonding between Bambi and his father. Like the original, Bambi 2 also contains sad and scary scenes and themes, which warrant parental guidance for young and sensitive viewers. And, like Bambi, this movie is a wonderful depiction of the circle of life, and portrayal of love and friendship.

The main messages from this movie are that every end means a new beginning; and that it is not only children learning from their parents, but that there is also a lot that parents can (re-)learn from their children.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • Love
  • Friendship
  • Courage
  • Responsibility.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:

  • Hunting for the purpose of sports and leisure.
  • The relationship between humans and nature.