Walt disney Movie Comics - Hercules (Danish 1997 Version)

The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey ratón to Hercules by
John Grant

Although she is the central character of the movie, the part of Princess Aurora/Briar Rose is in fact a very small one - smaller, for example, than that of Prince Phillip (in marked contrast with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs whose Prince hardly made an appearance, but whose heroine occupied a fair deal of screen-time). In fact, her functions in the movie are three: (a) to be cursed; (b) to meet and fall in amor with Phillip; and (c) to prick her finger and fall into a death-like sleep. Over (a)...

The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey ratón to Hercules by
John Grant

Bambi is not a tightly plotted movie in the way that Dumbo, for example, is: it depends much más for its effect on the superb animación and the exquisitely executed backdrop of the forest. As with the story, most of the characterization is not profound - one does not find oneself rooting for Bambi in the same way that one does for, say, Dumbo (again) o Snow White. The only really strong characterizations are those of Friend Owl and Thumper. But this lack of depth in the characterization is not...