Highly Overrated But Still Good

From my favorite movies..

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a classic children's movie. A Disney film based on the books by A.A. Milne, the animated movie follows Winnie the Pooh, an adorable stuffed bear, and his friends as they go on adventures and learn valuable lessons about patience, acceptance, and friendship. The film shows four different chapters from the book, each with their own plot and lesson. The filmmakers used exceptionally creative tactics to make the narrator and the actual book a part of the movie; when shown, the words on the pages move! The characters also jump across pages to get to different scenes, giving the illusion that they are actually inside a book. The film gives great messages and teaches wonderful lessons, but it also has creative and entertaining elements designed to keep the viewer entertained and engaged. Winnie the Pooh was a massive part of my childhood, so it was really fun (and nostalgic) to revisit the film. The familiar voices of the cast brought me right back to the characters and stories that I loved as a kid. The home-made style sound effects and the shifting letters mesmerized me all over again. The film definitely still remains one of my favorites.

1) Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree - This 20-minute, Grammy award nominated, animated short film from almost 50 years ago was actually the first appearance of the honey-addicted bear Winnie the Pooh on the screen. The director is German Wolfgang Reitherman. You could basically divide it into two parts. In the first half, Pooh Bear realizes that he has no more honey left. So he goes to get some, but obviously taking honey means getting in trouble with bees. And that's exactly what happens. After he and his pal Christopher Robin are chased by a huge quantity of bees, he gives up and thinks about other ways to get honey. Thankfully, his rabbit buddy still has some and so he visits him and eats it all up. Unfortunately, afterward, Pooh is too fat to get out of the rabbit hole and he is stuck. Christopher Robin knows no solution either, so Pooh Bear has to wait till he loses enough weight to get out on his own again. Of course, he still wants to eat honey while he is stuck. I have to say this was not a horrible short film by any means, but it's still too little material for over 20 minutes in my opinion. This was the first Pooh Bear film, was even made before the Soviet adaptation, but it's certainly not the best. Not recommended.2) Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day - They say when you have nothing to talk about you just talk about the weather and this also applies to this 20-minute short film. Basically, everything that happens in here is massive rainfall and resulting from it a huge flood. The director is Wolfgang Reitherman again and this one here won an Oscar even, the last for Walt Disney, quite a while after his death already. It was the second entry to the American Pooh series. However, I felt that just like with the first there was too little interesting action in here. Tigger was entirely forgettable really in here. Even his presentation was nothing special. Piglet added something nice and also shows us that Pooh is not only an always-hungry bear, but also a loyal friend. But the ending was so weird nonetheless. Owl randomly moves into Piglet's home and he just have to go? That was so strange. Why wouldn't the owl simply move in with Pooh. Anyway, all in all certainly one of the weaker Academy Award winners from the Best Animated Short Film category. Not recommended.3) Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too - This is the third and last of the Winnie Pooh trilogy by Wolfgang Reitherman and Sterling Holloway. Just like the second, it got nominated for an Academy Award, but this time it did not win. After watching all three of these I have to say that I prefer the 3 Soviet Films about Winnie Pooh. They have as much action as these American films, but it's much more essential as not all of the Russian films run for 20 minutes. There's just not enough happening in here. I even wondered after the first how Rabbit became a friend of everybody and after watching this third film I have to ask that question again. I mean he is really mean to Tigger here. Yes the bouncing may be annoying, but why forbid him to do it. And what was up with that Hansel & Gretel idea of leaving him alone in the deserted forest? Seriously? That's just cruel. In any case, I do not recommend this third film either.

Classic Disney film pieces together the three previously released animated shorts: "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree," "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day," and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too." Extra material was added to link the stories and a fourth segment was added. This segment was about Christopher Robin having to leave the Hundred Acre Wood to start school. Growing up I was unaware of the previous shorts or even the books really. This film was my introduction to Winnie the Pooh and friends. This is a must for kids of all ages. A sweet, cute, innocent fun film. Beautifully animated with wonderful songs and lovable characters.

Pooh is my favorite Disney Character and I just don't know why. His ability to make every problem minuet to his lack of honey is one that makes me laugh every time.The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a 1977 Disney cartoon which is composed of materials from three of Disney's previously released animated features, and all are based upon the Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne. The three animated features are Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974).The Character Winnie the Pooh is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. Milne named the bear after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, whom you will come to know as the character Christopher Robin who is Pooh's best friend.Milne also created characters from other Christopher's toys which were included in the story; notable though Owl and Gopher were added by Disney.Winnie the Pooh (Christopher's teddy bear) got his name from a Canadian black bear which Christopher often saw at the London Zoo the name of the bear was "Winnie", and "Pooh", was a swan they had met while on holiday.In the movie some additions were made, like Rabbit making Pooh part of his house décor was added by Disney himself and idea he got while reading the book. The movie also features the classic songs by the Sherman Brothers, "Winnie the Pooh" and "The Wonderful Things About Tiggers".This movie was the last movie that Walt Disney himself had personal involvement in. Although he was not involved in the movie shooting or production, he was part of the production of one of the shorts (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree in 1966) and it was released during his lifetime and he was also involved in the production of Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which won the 1968 Academy Award for Animated Short Film, an award given to Walt Disney posthumously as he died two years before the film's release.This 1977 classic is also rated has the same rated score in Rotten Tomatoes (the two have a 91% approval from critics making it a most watch) as its 2011 predecessor titled Winnie The Pooh.Many would have seen this classic, and I believe there is no reason not to, if you have not already. It is a DVD to own and keep.www.lagsreviews.com