Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh [DVD]

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Fortunately, the segments aren't at all hastily strung together. Instead, they're interwoven in a very clever, nigh metafilmic manner. Beginning and ending in live-action, the movie meanders through Christopher Robin's nursery into a storybook, calling attention both to the material existence of these characters and their literary origins. As it moves from one featurette to the next, the book visually progresses from chapter to chapter -- a very effective technique, indeed. And when the ending arrives, all that simplicity is given a little depth. Though it comes off as something of an afterthought, the original books' theme of a boy having to leave his childhood behind hits home and hits hard in the final scene, laying some very emotional icing on top of this yellow, fluff-filled cake. The film is framed at 1.66:1. For comparison, Disney's Blu-ray restoration of ' Robin Hood' offered a similar presentation. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' is important. The film -- a collection of featurettes -- is a cherished production in Disney's illustrious vault, not just because it introduced the world to the animated versions of A. A. Milne's lovable characters, but also because this was one of the last productions that Walt Disney himself influenced before his untimely death in 1966. The Little Mermaid: Platinum Edition (1989) • The Aristocats: Gold Collection (1970) • The Jungle Book: Limited Issue (1967) Voice Cast: Sterling Holloway (Winnie the Pooh), Paul Winchell (Tigger), Junius Matthews (Rabbit), John Fiedler (Piglet), Ralph Wright (Eeyore), Barbara Luddy (Kanga), Clint Howard (Roo), Howard Morris (Gopher), Hal Smith (Owl)

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day' has always been a favorite of mine. Coming in a close second to 'Dumbo's "Pink Elephants on Parade" for "Creepiest Dream Sequence in a Disney Film," "Heffalumps and Woozles" is a psychedelic trip; which, by the way, is carried over perfectly into the Winnie the Pooh-themed Disneyland ride. Films: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree ( video) • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day ( video) • Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too ( video) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ( video) • Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore ( video) • Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure • Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin ( video) • Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving ( video) • The Tigger Movie ( video) • The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart • Piglet's Big Movie ( video) • Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo ( video) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie ( video) • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie ( video) • Super Sleuth Christmas Movie • Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too • Super Duper Super Sleuths • Winnie the Pooh ( video) • Christopher Robin ( video) Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day: " A Rather Blustery Day" • " The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" • " Heffalumps and Woozles" • " Rain, Rain, Rain Came Down, Down, Down" • " Hip-Hip-Hooray!" The film's content comes largely from the 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 with Holloway and Cabot reprising their roles used to link the three featurettes together was added to allow the stories to flow into each other.Finally, there are two Exclusive Sneak Peeks for Piglet's Big Movie and Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year. Piglet, a stuffed pig in the Hundred Acre Wood who is afraid of everything but has a big heart. Voiced by John Fiedler. The film marks the first and final appearance of actors Junius Matthews ( Rabbit), Barbara Luddy ( Kanga), Sterling Holloway ( Winnie the Pooh), and Sebastian Cabot ( The Narrator). Seventy years before Toy Story stormed the box office and redefined animation, another story imagined what it might be like if our toys had lives of their own. Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926 by A.A. Milne. The collection of tales, inspired by Milne's son Christopher and his stuffed dolls, was soon followed by another: The House at Pooh Corner, published in 1928. More than three decades later,

Disney's Animated Storybook CD-ROM Promo (Featuring Ones from Toy Story, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Pocahontas)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. There's a music video (2:34) by Carly Simon, who pulls out her acoustic guitar to give a stripped down performance of the "Winnie the Pooh" theme. It's a nice take on the song and the video, which mixes live-action and animation, is nicely made as well. After that is a 2-minute sing-along for an extended version of "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", comprised of animation from the '80s Pooh TV series and featuring subtitles for most (though frustratingly not all) of the song. Having spanned from the glory days of Walt Disney to the dark age that followed his death, Pooh was one property still capable of breathing life into the otherwise ailing company. It made sense, then, to bring Walt's original dream to life and give the bear and his friends their very own feature-length film... sort of. In 1977, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh combined the three preceding Pooh featurettes into one movie than ran just over an hour. The resulting feature emerged as the most recognizable version of Winnie the Pooh to date. Tinker Bell (2008) • Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009) • Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010) • Secret of the Wings (2012) • The Pirate Fairy (2014) • Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2015) Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002) • Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005)