Touches You

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Bambi meets Godzilla? Not having the slightest idea that this film existed, one day, several years ago, I found it at the IMDb and my first reaction was of absolute incredulity; who could have filmed something so absurd? A very high ranking of 10/10 (which has naturally come down since that day) helped to increase my curiosity about this, and while it took me a I finally could find a copy of this film that today can be easily found around the internet.bringing together a little deer and a giant atomic lizard certainly looks like something unimaginable, and for a person that has never seen this short before it can be hard to imagine what the hell will happen; the film is less tan two minutes long, and while you sit and watch Bambi placidly eating grass while the opening credits roll the expectation for Godzilla appearance grows and grows.Finally the time comes, and while the result of the meeting is at first completely unexpected, once it finishes you have absolutely no doubt that, if Bambi could meet Godzilla that would definitively be the outcome. Once the surprise is over and if you watch the film other times the film is less funny, but for me it is still a great experience to share it with people that has never Heard about it , and enjoy their incredulity to the film existence and their reaction to it after their watch it which remembers me my first watching several years ago.For managing to build suspense in just a couple of minutes and for making plausible a very strange idea, this short film deserves the cult film status it has attained. I recommend you to watch it to get a nice laugh. Animation is crude but it fits the film, and the few credits that are on screen also have a dose of humor. There are some other imitations of this film, but not one of them can be compared with this original and great idea.

I first watched this unusual cartoon a few decades ago on a local PBS station program that showed public domain films. I don't remember laughing as much as marveling at the audacity of Marv Newland to put such a shocking image as that of a giant lizard foot going down on the peaceful deer eating grass just after the "Overture from William Tell: Ranz de Vaches" by Gioachino Rossini played during the beginning credits which has Newland's name constantly crawling up during each one and then segueing to the final sound of The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" droning on as that foot stands still on that poor deer with only the nails moving downward. It's still not a laugh-out-loud moment for me but it's still a fascinating and iconic animation moment to look at just the same...

Yes, this classic one and a half minute animated short still amuses and entertains even today. We start off with sweet little Bambi grazing in the woods to the lovely, lulling orchestral overture to "William Tell." WARNING: Possible major *SPOILER* ahead. Then big, bad Godzilla stomps his massive foot down and squashes poor Bambi as if he was a minuscule bug. This is without a doubt one of the most shocking and brutal, yet appropriate and inevitable conclusions to a movie period. Yeah, it's grim and disturbing, but that's the point. I believe writer/director Marv Newland intended this infamous cartoon to be a poignant and provocative meditation on just how fleeting and fragile life really is. Dainty Bambi represents the frailty of existence itself, while the massive Godzilla symbolizes the harshness of dark death and cruel mortality. This picture starkly states in no uncertain terms that everything that's alive eventually dies. So, this just isn't some goofy little spoof. It's a profound artistic statement on life itself.

I rented this about 10 years ago with about 30 minutes of other cartoons after this, and this....well it delivers what it promises. The short must be around a minute long and it just consists of Bambi eating some grass, Godzilla's foot comes down and stomps him, we see a twitch in Godzilla's toe, and it's over. It was funny the first time I saw it because of how short and intense it was. After that, you realize it is just a really low budget, poorly animated short that has nothing, and anyone could make it. I have to give it at least partial credit because it was amusing, but the cartoons that follow are much better.My rating: ** out of ****. 1 min.