Welcome to the shortest review on the EOFTV Review, for the shortest film we’re likely to ever cover – Marv Newland’s wonderful silly Bambi Meets Godzilla. At just 2 minutes, there’s no room here for niceties like plot or character. In fact, there’s barely time for it’s one joke. A black and white Bambi is seen grazing contentedly in a field while Gioachino Rossini’s Overture from William Tell: Ranz des Vaches plays on the soundtrack. The credits roll and we notice that every role in the production was taken by one man, Marv Newland. Then comes the eponymous encounter and it ends as well as you might expect. After that there’s that famous final piano chord from A Day in the Life by The Beatles and that’s your lot.

Newland went on to make a series of experimental animated shorts but Bambi Meets Godzilla remains his best known work. Short, sweet and utterly absurd it will raise at least a smile. It’s a ludicrous notion and its very silliness is what makes it so much fun. Eric Fernandes made a considerably less charming computer-generated sequel, Son of Bambi Meets Godzilla, in 1999 in which, thanks to heavy artillery, Bambi gets his revenge.