Winnie the Pooh (2011)

Winnie the Pooh is a 2011 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the eponymous novel created by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. The 51st animated film produced by the studio, the film is a revival of Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise and the fifth theatrical Winnie the Pooh film released since The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. As of now, it is Disney's most recent modern day traditionally animated theatrical film.

The film is dedicated to background artist Dan Read, who had worked on several Disney animated films and died on May 25, 2010.

Plot
Three stories inspired by A.A. Milne add up to a very busy day for Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings) and friends. Upon learning that Eeyore (Bud Luckey) has lost his tail, the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood start a contest to see who can find a new one for the melancholy donkey - with a pot of honey going to the winner. Amid the goings-on, Owl (Craig Ferguson) mistakenly relates the news that Christopher Robin (Jack Boulter) has been abducted. However, all ends well when Pooh finds a land of sweet delights.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The movie's animation is completely splendid and top notch with it's sketchy look from the characters movements to the designs of each character, which makes the animation feel it really is from a storybook.
 * 2) The live-action cinematography looks really gorgeous as it is mostly accurate to how Christopher Robin had his own room in the past.
 * 3) The grasp to the original source material still feels (mostly) respectful to the original books.
 * 4) The backgrounds are also good-looking, too. They are a lot fully detailed and more of a big step up from the previous Pooh movies, as well as every other animated Disney movie in general.
 * 5) Jim Cummings aside, the other choice of cast members is very good. We even get Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob) playing as Rabbit for this movie, which is the best offer that Disney has ever given in terms of character casting, especially since Rabbit's original voice actor, Ken Sansom died a few years ago.
 * 6) The characters are still likable and truly remain to have the same personalities as before from what Walt Disney wanted the people working on the Winnie the Pooh cartoon to do since he loved Winnie the Pooh so much when he was alive.
 * 7) * Pooh is still a very likable protagonist.
 * 8) * Tigger, Christopher Robin, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit and Eeyore are all still great supporting cast.
 * 9) * John Cleese as the narrator. Out of all the choices Disney had cast people as the narrator for a Winnie the Pooh production, John Cleese is the best one yet.
 * 10) There are a handful of funny moments that lead to some really good comedy, such as the knot scene from when Pooh, Rabbit, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga and Roo all got trapped in the hole.
 * 11) * Overall, the humor is still very funny and well timed.
 * 12) Henry Jackman provides an excellent score, and there are a few great songs like "A Very Important Thing to Do", "The Backson", "Everything is Honey", and of course the title song ("Winnie the Pooh").
 * 13) The Backson epilogue is a really funny epilogue to end the movie.
 * 14) The opening song has been remade for a modern day audience, and still sounds true to the original version of the theme.
 * 15) Because of the love and passion this film has been given since production, this film took 8 writers to make a good send-off to the Walt Disney 2D animated era. Talking of which, this is the film that ended the 2D animation era of the Disney Animated Canon, this truly ended the hand drawn era of Disney on a really high, but positive note.
 * 16) *Although, there were some hopes from Frozen directors Jennifer Lee & Chris Buck stated that 2D animation could be revived and still be given a chance...

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The one thing that did have its grasp on the source material slip is in one scene when Rabbit is given a big bunch of money, the money bag has the US dollar symbol currency rather than the Great Britain pound sterling symbol since Winnie the Pooh actually originated from England which uses the pound. Not the US, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada, whereas those four English speaking countries use dollars for currencies and not the England.
 * 2) Unlike the other Winnie the Pooh movies, there isn't really anything new.
 * 3) *This may not necessarily count as a bad quality, but this Winnie the Pooh film relied on only two to three stories than what the original draft of the 2011 film was going to have (yes, it was going to have five stories). One is where Pooh tries to look for honey and then thought that Christopher Robin was "kidnapped" after reading a letter where he said he would be back soon, and then we have the story of Eeyore's tail being found missing, and that was it. But at least the stories are still good. Those were only three that were left abandoned.
 * 4) *Because of the two story limit, the runtime is very short and only runs for 63 minutes, which makes the pacing being rushed and too fast. The film could have been more longer and could have used a couple more stories as what was originally intended. Because of this, it doesn't feel like the actual feature film.
 * 5) Terrible Release Date: The film was released on the same day as the final Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 thus ruining this films financial earnings.

Reception
Winnie the Pooh received generally positive reviews, with many critics and audiences praising its animation, voice acting, screenplay and musical numbers (notably "The Backson Song" and "Everything Is Honey"), while also criticizing the very short film length. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 91% of 128 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.23/10. Its consensus states "Short, nostalgic, and gently whimsical, Winnie the Pooh offers young audiences—and their parents—a sweetly traditional family treat.". Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 74 based on 26 reviews. CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film an "A−" on an A+ to F scale.

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Trivia

 * This is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios feature to have a post-credits scene since Brother Bear in 2003.
 * ​This is also the last WDAS feature to have the "Walt Disney Pictures Presents" credit.
 * This is currently the most recent Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film to be rated G by the MPAA, as their subsequent films continued to get PG ratings from the MPAA with Wreck-It Ralph onwards. In fact, when the film's official website was first published, it was once mistaken to be rated PG by the MPAA before the rating was removed (due to an editing error, possibly being copied from the Tangled official website) as the film was too childish for that rating.
 * Pooh Bear, Tigger, and Piglet are the only characters to retain their current voice actors (Jim Cummings and Travis Oates respectively).
 * This is the only theatrical animated sequel/reboot film whose predecessor was previously animated using xerography.
 * Currently, this is so far, the last traditionally animated entity in the Disney canon to date. This is due to the closer of the hand-drawn department two years after the film was released, to make room for computer-animated features. However, despite this, (Walt) Disney Television Animation still uses hand drawn animation for shows like Phineas and Ferb and Ducktales (2017) as well as their films. Walt Disney Animation Studios also still uses hand drawn animation as supplements for their current films such as Maui’s tattoos in Moana, Sorcerer Mickey’s animation in Ralph Breaks the Internet, and a sequence in Raya and the Last Dragon. Lastly, the studio stated that they would be open to proposals from filmmakers for future hand-drawn feature projects.