Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good start, but then it gets ruined

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

This short feels like the spiritual predecessor of the cutaway gags from Family Guy and shows like "Robot Chicken": Something "innocent" (in this case, a Bambi knock off) is subverted with the addition of a black comedy element. From a modern perspective,there isn't very much to say: Godzilla steps on Bambi, Bambi is dead now, haha. But it's easy to see why such a brief animation like this could easily gain a cult status. It works as a simple but effective idea, like a one liner joke, something that doesn't need to be very complex to be memorable.This simple and direct quality is definitely missed in the awful "unofficial sequel" that nobody asked, "Son of Bambi Meets Godzilla" done in the year 1999.

Yes, it is kind of sad how one sided the contest ends up being. Faster than most of the fights Godzilla has been in over the years. I mean you think the fight he had with the American version of Godzilla in "Final Wars" was fast and one sided the outcome of this epic clash is even more so. In fact one would have expected a super powerful clash between the two, but this mega battle we have all been waiting for never really materializes. I was expecting something special along the lines of Godzilla's matches with King Gidorah or other monsters, but it is over before you realize it has begun. Perhaps if only the one who gets wiped out would have trained a bit more, or perhaps if he only noticed his surroundings a little more than he did, he could have perhaps did some super dodge move and stayed in the fight a little longer. It is hard to contain myself and not reveal to you the reader the winner of this fight as I am sure your are thinking it could go either way, but let me tell you, it is most certainly a one sided contest. Perhaps the loser could get a rematch after his stay at the morgue.

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.

The credit sequence (which is extensive) is hilarious. (I believe this movie influenced Monty Python's credit sequences.) It falls prey to the same sync problems which plague most Japanese imports. Although the plot is simple, it has become a classic because of its direct approach to universal themes and interpretations ranging from "good vs evil" to "little guy vs corporate greed." Marxist undertones are not hard to see here. The director's clear point of view and gracious acknowledgment of the many (usually anonymous) workers whose contributions blend seamlessly to make this classic make this one of the least didactic of the Godzilla canon.