Winnie The Pooh - Springtime With Roo (Animated) (DVD)

...life. With such characters as Winnie the Pooh (a bear with very little brain), Piglet (I’m a small little animal) and the bounceriffic Tigger, it was bound to happen sometime, and Disney took on the challenge with enthusiasm.

Winnie the Pooh is now a multi million dollar business, with lots of different types of merchandising and numeral films. However Disney do not own the right to the original Winnie the Pooh artistry by E H Sheppard ...
...would expect of a Disney Winnie the pooh classic. The characters are loveable and as endearing as ever, with plenty of references to the books used to keep them solid and in tune.

This film is in the era before the major hype really hit, when the almost ‘plastic’ knocked out films (but still good don’t get me wrong) like the Tigger Movie, Piglets Big Adventure or the Heffalump movie.

The feeling of the amount of love ... more

~Background~
Based on the books written by A. A. Milne (which I will review soon) the Disney Corporation took on the characters in the book to give them animated life. With such characters as Winnie the Pooh (a bear with very little brain), Piglet (I’m a small little animal) and the bounceriffic Tigger, it was bound to happen sometime, and Disney took on the challenge with enthusiasm.

Winnie the Pooh is now a multi million dollar business, with lots of different types of merchandising and numeral films. However Disney do not own the right to the original Winnie the Pooh artistry by E H Sheppard

~Opinion~
The film is all you would expect of a Disney Winnie the pooh classic. The characters are loveable and as endearing as ever, with plenty of references to the books used to keep them solid and in tune.

This film is in the era before the major hype really hit, when the almost ‘plastic’ knocked out films (but still good don’t get me wrong) like the Tigger Movie, Piglets Big Adventure or the Heffalump movie.

The feeling of the amount of love in the film really shines, and you certainly don’t get the inference it was made purely to push products.

As with all films of this nature it always appeals to girls more, even though Christopher Robin is there. When the boys reached about 6 – 7 their interest in Winnie the pooh waned in favour of Pokemon and Yu Gi Ho .

~ Film Summary ~
It’s the most beautiful spring day in the hundred acre wood. Roo, Tigger and Pooh are already to play and start an adventure – but Rabbit has other ideas. Over scheduled Rabbit wants everyone to stay indoors and finish the spring cleaning.

Can anything – or anyone change Rabbits mind? With Roo’s love and enthusiasm Rabbit is shown the true meaning of special days to be shared in special ways.

~The DVD~
A deep blue, slightly purple box, the cover has artwork of the 100 acre wood with the main characters beautifully posed.

~Special Features~
> Cleaning Rabbit's House
Pick a item and a location for party things to go round rabbits house. I think this game should have been called decorating Rabbits house, not cleaning it.

> Disney's Art Project
Basically a ‘how to’ make a butterfly mobile as demonstrate by Lefty and Righty, a pair of gloves. You may want to pause this a number of times, as it goes pretty fast.

> Sounds of Spring Game
click on the items in the picture to her the ‘sounds of spring’ – can be too easy, is repetitive and there’s no real guess work in it.

~Price & Availability~
Amazon has it at £6.97

~Technical Stuff~
Directors: Elliot M. Bour, Saul Andrew Blinkoff
Format: Animated, PAL
Language English
Region: Region 2
Number of discs: 1
Classification: U
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
DVD Release Date: 22 Mar 2004
Run Time: 62 minutes

DVD Features:
Main Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1
> Cleaning Rabbit's House
> Disney's Art Project
> Sounds of Spring Game

Cast (in credits order)

Jimmy Bennett ... Roo
Peter Cullen ... Eeyore (voice)
Jim Cummings ... Winnie The Pooh/Tigger
John Fiedler ... Piglet
Ken Sansom ... Rabbit
Kath Soucie ... Kanga
David Ogden Stiers ... Narrator

~Interesting fact~
Jim Cummings first replaced the ill Sterling Holloway in the film “Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore” and carried on Tiggerific character with very little vocal difference. He is also one of the most respected voiceover actors in the business, and the only one to return to do the voice for all Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle films. His resume is as extensive as his vocal range
http://imdb.com/name/nm0191906/ 

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