My kids have watched those movies and have grown to be fine hunters. They realized they are fiction.

My kids watch them all the time when they were 2 or 3 years old...My father and grandfather are true outdoorsman and they passed that legacy towards me and now is my job to let my kids have that piece of legacy. My kids love the outdoors and most of their friends do the same. I believe that movies like this won't deter a child from doing what he or she love to do!!!!!

Parents and peers will have a greater influence than the cartoon, so it really depends on what and how they're taught about hunting, what behaviors and attitudes are modeled for them. If an impressionable child watches these films and has no sounding board or reference for opinion or guidance, they could develop the belief that it is cruel to hunt. At some point, they learn that deer don't talk or process thought they way these films anthropomorphize them, and they realize a film is just a tale, a creative product. Of course, some never come to that conclusion and join PETA or limit their diet to nuts & berries. We live in an interesting world, don't we?

i remember i would watch those movies everyday when i was younger, and the fox and the hound and the size of bambi and his father made me want to huntt even more... i think their fine.

EJP, interesting indeed. Elmer fudd, i'm with you. I can't stand Disney and doubt if i'll ever spend a dime on Disney products for my kids. I will not disallow them to be exposed to it by friends or family, but i won't expose them to it personally. My wife supports me when i make such stands. It's no different than the rest of the trash Hollywood produces though. Can i boycott it all?

Personelly I like those movies. But you do have a point. Many ''antis'' in my school use bambi and stuff to try to make me feel guilty. It got pretty intense when I got my doe last year. They kept saying I killed bambis mom. They can get on my nerves so much.

Disney animal films are not really different from any other live Disney film, which is like a lot of non-Disney stuff.

You want it to be entertaining, you have to have a plot to grab people. For kids, the Disney formula worked like magic.

One change I have noticed over the years. In older movies, there was always the dead mom, or the dead dad, even in comedies. They eventually used divorce instead for plots of single parents and "misunderstood" children. I heard that was because Walt was so against divorce, he would rather kill off a parent instead in a movie.

And I never stopped my son from watching any of that, nor did I preach about it, either. I taught him what I knew, he watched what he wanted, and still grew up to be reasonably well-adjusted.

I've seen both films dozens of times, and it hasn't stopped me from hunting. My children have seen them, and it hasn't stopped them, either.
I have to say, since it's told from a deer's perspective, Man the Hunter remains properly mysterious and dangerous in Bambi. Can't say the same for Fox and the Hound, where the message is really anti. You can throw "Open Season" in the same dumbster.