Winnie The Pooh - The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh [DVD]

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Before his death, Disney had intended to create a full-length animated Winnie the Pooh film. However, short animated featurettes came before anything else. First, was 'Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree' (1966) – one of the last Disney projects Disney supervised. The next short 'Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day' (1968). A third short, 'Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too' (1974) followed six years later. In lieu of an audio commentary, "Pooh's Pop-Up Fun Facts" has been carried over from the old DVD as well. This plays the movie from beginning to end with various bits of trivia appearing on the screen in subtitle form throughout. This format is just about the worst way to present information, as the viewer must keep their eyes nervously glued to the screen in fear of missing something. It's difficult to concentrate on either the movie or the trivia and nearly impossibly to do both. The trivia varies from the obvious to the interesting and comes in spurts, with long gaps of no text in between. It's better than nothing and a good thing that it wasn't left off altogether (as the press release had suggested), but some improvement or an audio commentary would have been preferred.

Side guide

The film’s content is derived from three previously released animated featurettes Disney produced based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A.A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree ( 1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day ( 1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too ( 1974). Extra material used to link the three featurettes together was added to allow the stories to merge into each other. The Brave Little Toaster (1987) • Valiant (2005) • The Wild (2006) • A Christmas Carol (2009) • Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) • Mars Needs Moms (2011) • Strange Magic (2015) • The Lion King (2019) Gopher is present in some of the original stories. This is alluded to by his frequent line in context meaning his mining company's phone number is listed of "I’m not in the book, you know." Tigger, a stuffed tiger in the Hundred Acre Wood who always love to run and bounce. voiced by Paul Winchell.

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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" is simple but quite happy. It is narrated through a storybook and illustrations, which is a different way to tell a story.