What's going on guys? I'm Tyler and in continuing my series of Disney movie reviews,
I'm here to let you know that "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"
is NoPerfectMovie! But it'd be great if it was, wouldn't it?
So "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" is actually a series of three short films
that were made over the course of eight years and those shorts were originally
warm-ups for live-action Disney movies, but when they decided to put all three
of these shorts together and make it one whole movie, they brought the voice actors back,
they animated some new footage that could weave these shorts
together like chapters in a book and also created one final short that serves
as an epilogue to the movie. Now I've got an obvious question for you: Do you like Winnie the Pooh?
Did you grow up with it? Of course you did! Why am I even asking
you that?! Even if you haven't seen every Winnie the Pooh show or movie or
have even read every single book you know exactly who these characters are and
what their personalities are like and if you're gonna love them, and that's
the great thing about the Winnie the Pooh franchise is how universal it is to kids
and families, and when I rewatched not just this one but the 2011 one - I did
realize that the characters for the most part are actually more flawed and
self-centered than I remembered them to be as a kid and I just sat there and I'm like
How come I never notice this as a kid and how come I'm still enjoying
these characters even at their worst behaviour? And the most I can say is that
the characters and their personality traits do remind you of what it's like
to be a kid; you can be wide-eyed ,you can be curious you can just want to play and
have fun all the time and just have friends that you can connect with but at
the same time you can also be overly protective of the things you love,
you can be immediately judgmental towards people who are weird or different than
you are and sometimes kids can intentionally cause harm upon others
just because they don't like them! This movie really understands what it's like
to go through childhood and in a strange way how to portray that without
the characters being kids-by being stuffed animals and I think it's those character
traits that we really clicked to when we were kids because-
let's face it, when we were younger we didn't think misbehaving was really all
that bad but once we did, we we did feel bad about it, we wanted to correct
our behaviours, we wanted to make it up to our friends whenever we did something wrong
and that's exactly what Pooh Bear and his friends do... but the movie also
acknowledges that sometimes kids forget the lessons that they've learned and
have to learn them all over again and that's actually one of the central
themes of the movie and I really appreciate how honest Winnie the Pooh is
about childhood maybe even more honest than most average Disney movies! And like
any good Winnie the Pooh movie or show, it really depends on the voice cast to
bring such sweetness and charm to the characters and these actors did such
a really good job! Sterling Holloway's voice was always so
soft and soothing and that was the key thing that made Pooh
such a wholesome and innocent character even at his worst! Paul Winchell as Tigger
was just so energetic and playful and always moving and that was
the main reason that made me love him the most as a kid and of course
John Fielder as Piglet was much more soft-spoken and humble whenever he
wasn't worrying about everything-in fact the worrying about everything is
actually a little bit downplayed in this movie and I kind of wish the later films
would be just as focused on him being shy and humble as opposed to constantly
neurotic but it's it's a minor thing in all honesty. But rewatching this movie
in particular, I started to appreciate Rabbit more as a character; the voice actor did
such a good job of making him so manic and obsessive and so uptight with
everyone who disagreed with him and that's the reason you laugh at him!
He always wants things to go his way & his reactions when things go absolutely wrong
were hilarious to watch but you can also understand why he's becoming
more aggressive with the other characters because at the very beginning
he starts off being too nice to Pooh Bear because he can't bring
himself to be rude to him, but once Pooh gets stuck in his front door for months
on end and he too can't stand it, you can totally see why
he's becoming more and more uptight and a little less likeable but you still
want to root for him, to come to his senses and just accept people for the
way they are because you've seen him be a nice person! The songs by the Sherman Brothers
are just so simple in their lyrics to the point where it works 100%
and the composition is so catchy and whimsical that you just
can't help but smile-I mean most people can sing the theme song, it's just got
such it brings such cheer to you, "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" has a lot
of fast-paced energy and it suits the character very nicely-I wish I went on
for a little bit longer in the movie because there is a full length version
the full-length version is a lot better. "Heffalumps and Woozles" is a very weird
song almost in a 'Pink Elephants' from "Dumbo" sort of way, but it was still a fun
sequence to watch and I think the overall message of that segment is to
show kids through much more uplifting and comedic ways that it's not important
to worry about things that you either don't know or don't understand.
The animation is pretty good too, they really take advantage of the main characters
being stuffed animals so that whenever the slapstick happens you can laugh
along with their pain but you never have to worry if they're gonna make it out
okay because you already know that answer, so you can just sit back and
enjoy the moment. There was one thing about the animation that I was worried
about going in and while it wasn't that big of a problem I still noticed it and
it really comes down to a behind-the-scenes thing: Because these
shorts were made by two different people, the drawing style sometimes switched
from the sketchy look that Disney had from "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" to "The Rescuers" to
this brand-new style that's a lot more polished and clean kind of like
"The Fox and the Hound" because that was the other Disney movie that came after this,
but it's really just a minor thing and as far as flaws that's really
the only thing I can think of! "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" is
considered to be one of the most wholesome, charming and sweetest Disney movies
that families can watch and because of how flawed but still relatable
the characters are, it absolutely is and for all those reasons I'm gonna give
"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" a 4.5/5 Guys, thanks as always for watching!
Let me know in the comments below: What's your favourite Winnie the Pooh movie?
It could be absolutely anything-it could have went to theatres,
it could have went to TV or to cassette just let me know in the comments below!
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