Bambitious

Coming off the high of the brilliance that was “burning bridges”, it’s really difficult to believe that this movie was made by the same people.

Bambitious is the story of an ambitious young lady, Bambi, who is dating a lax complacent character called Frank. She eventually gets fed up with the lifestyle that she is living with him and decides to break up with him. After ending things with Frank, she moves on to greener pastures when she finds Jerry. Jerry is a well to-do single young man who develops a fancy for Bambi and just at that time Bambi realizes that she is pregnant.

It is not the core of the story that is innately unentertaining, it is the development on screen. The first 20 minutes of the movie simply dragged and dragged. It was a constant fight to not give up hope. And then when the movie does finally begin, twenty minutes in, you find out that at the crux of it there might be a story but it is not half engaging enough to commit another hour of your life to.

Bambi is played by Bellinda Effah, Frank by Bucci Franklin and Jerry by Daniel K. Daniel. All the performances in this movie were significantly underwhelming, but it’s hard determine whether this was the fault of the actors alone or the general mood of the movie. In the first few minutes of the movie even I was confused as to what genre the movie was: do we chuck it all off as a satire or is the writer being serious about the storyline?

Bucci Franklin as an actor was doing all the right things but it still lacked the conviction from every angle. DKD was just present in this movie, nothing more can be said about that performance. The acting in this movie was done mostly by Bellinda. She was holding the performance up by a thread; a thread that got cut as soon as Funmi Coker’s character arrives. Previously the performances were tolerable but as soon as this character arrives the whole thing just plummets.

However, the closer the movie got to the end, the more tolerable it became. I’m unsure as to whether this was just because the end was finally in sight for the viewer or that the story actually became clearer. At the beginning of this movie there was a world of confusion as to what was going on and what the movie was about but by the end the confusion had cleared it became more of a movie.