The film opens with an animated dark reimagining of Bambi’s origins. After witnessing his mother's death at the hands of hunters as a fawn, Bambi grows up and finds a mate, Faline. However, tragedy strikes again when Faline is killed by a truck owned by a pharmaceuticals firm, who are secretly dumping toxic waste in the forest. In the chaos, Bambi's offspring (a young fawn) is kidnapped by the company's employees. Driven by grief, Bambi drinks from the contaminated, toxic river water. This causes him to mutate into a monstrous, vengeful beast with jagged shark teeth, glowing eyes and massive, lethal antlers!
The story here follows a woman and her son who are traveling to a house in the woods to meet her estranged husband. However, their taxi is attacked and overturned by the mutated Bambi. The driver is crushed, bones popping out of limbs all over, but the woman and boy escape and get to the house.
Turns out that the husband is not only a bad one, and worse father to the boy, but is the very cad responsible for killing Faline and dumping the toxic waste! He and a team of his buddies are in the woods specifically to track and kill the mutated creature that Bambi has become. We then get into the meat of the gore, pun intended, as the bonkers Bambi starts picking off nasty husband and his mates and we're treated to various graphic deaths in the mix - in some creative and interesting ways too! In the middle of this, a bunch of rabbits join in, who are equally armed with shark-like teeth, having a bit of fun of their own - so I guess they drank at the pool too!
All of this is actually quite funny and it feels like the people making this, like with Winnie the Pooh, are just having fun and it's all tongue-in-cheek. So it turns out that nutty Bambi is after its kidnapped fawn which is in a cage, and you no doubt imagine what might happen, which characters survive and which don't - based on how nasty or nice they are, doing the wrong thing or right.
It's all bonkers fun but, again, like the others, it's shame that they didn't have some more money to throw at the special effects which were, mostly, laughable. The script is diabolical, the acting (I'm sure, on purpose) is equally bad and the only thing I really found to be decently done was some of the interior photography and lighting, for some reason!
Post-credits, we see Bambi will Return as he is apparently set to appear in the upcoming crossover film Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble! More madness. This one is on Amazon Prime if you fancy a giggle.
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