Today, however, "Bambi" is viewed as one of the greatest animated films ever made. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 90% based on 49 reviews with an average rating of 8.22/10. The website consensus reads: "Elegantly animated and deeply touching, "Bambi" is an enduring, endearing, and moving Disney classic." Critics Mick Martin and Marsha Porter call the film "the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's animation studio". English film historian Leslie Halliwell wrote that "Bambi" was "one of Disney's most memorable and brilliant achievements with a great comic character in Thumper and a climactic forest fire sequence that is genuinely thrilling". He concluded that it was "a triumph of the animator's arts."