Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 111 | Rotten: 12
Short, nostalgic, and gently whimsical, Winnie the Pooh offers young audiences -- and their parents -- a sweetly traditional family treat.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 1
Short, nostalgic, and gently whimsical, Winnie the Pooh offers young audiences -- and their parents -- a sweetly traditional family treat.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios returns to the Hundred Acre Wood with Winnie the Pooh. Featuring the timeless charm, wit and whimsy of the original featurettes, this all-new movie reunites audiences with the philosophical "bear of very little brain" and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo-and last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail. "Ever have one of those days where you just can't win, Eeyore?" asks Pooh. Owl sends the whole gang on a wild quest to save
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Cast
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Jim Cummings
Tigger, Winnie the Pooh -
Craig Ferguson
Owl -
Tom Kenny
Rabbit -
Travis Oates
Piglet -
Bud Luckey
Eeyore -
Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Kanga -
Wyatt Hall
Roo -
Huell Howser
Backson, The Backson -
Jack Boulter
Christopher Robin -
John Cleese
Narrator -
Lisa Linder Silver
Additional Voices -
Robert Lopez
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All Critics (123) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (113) | Rotten (12) | DVD (7)
It's a pleasure to sink into an animated family movie from Disney that radiates charm with a gentleness that seems damn near revolutionary.
Top CriticDisney doesn't offer much here that it hasn't done as well before.
"Winnie the Pooh" is a very full jar of honey indeed.
This is indeed good old Pooh, nothing to fear. No space robots or serial killers have been added to the cast.
One would have to have a heart of cold temperament to find much -- if anything -- wrong with the animated adventure Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh will make big people remember their childhoods. And small people will have fun getting to know all of us in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Winnie the Pooh is a charming addition to the Pooh collection of animated family films.
It's nice to see that Disney wants to introduce tykes to the magic of going to the movies with family fare this gentle and warm.
The writers and directors make it work by never losing sight of the spirit of the characters, world, and Milne: imagination, innocence, and heaps of heart.
It's refreshing and invigorating to watch a new animated picture where we can still see the penciled-in sketches of the characters' eyebrows and wind-ruffled clothing.
A back-to-basics charmer evoking the Pooh short films from the '60s and '70s. [Blu-ray]
At 63 minutes, the film is not too long, not too short, but just right.
A benign, tot-oriented fable sharing a heartwarming message about the true meaning of friendship.
As props and as emblems, as metaphors and things, the words are the basis of friendship, the means to understanding and communication and sharing.
One of the film's new songs really sums it up: "Everything is honey and life is sweet."
As childlike and as innocent as the audience it hopes to attract
These fourth wall breaking techniques never feel like meta intrusions on the material but like a child's interaction with a parent reading the tales.
This is a fantastic family movie-going experience.
Perfect for kids ten and under - the rest of us will just have to grin and bear it!
A benign, tot-oriented fable sharing a heartwarming message about the true meaning of friendship.
... sweet kiddie entertainment, with charming songs ...
Winnie the Pooh generates smiles and chuckles from start to finish with its good-natured, episodic story of Pooh and friends going on a wild-goose chase to find a supposedly missing Christopher Robin...
Winnie the Pooh doesn't reinvent the wheel, just gives it an affectionate spin, and that is no more and no less than what one would hope from a family reunion.
Occasionally, some clever lines emerge, but the movie mostly fails to charm.
Audience Reviews for Winnie the Pooh
Super Reviewer
Genre: Animation, Family
Question: Do you ever get those days, weeks maybe, when nothing seems to cheer you up much? Life as adult isn't easy sometimes with thoughts of responsibilities and more that can overwhelm you. Do you dream of a simpler time when such worries were like the following: hoping twilight would last longer so you can catch more fireflies; figuring out how to hide most of the lima beans in your napkin or under the mashed potatoes; or begging on bent knee to stay up to see Tatoo yell "Da plane! Da Plane!" Yep, me too.
Well, I am here to tell you I magically transported back to my youth today when I took my kids to see the latest Winnie the Pooh movie.... Okay, I admit I really wanted to see it and I dragged my kids so I didn't seem like a crazy middle-aged lady seeing a kid's movie by herself. I needed a movie like this. No superheros, no people falling in or out of love, and no mystery/thriller would have made me happy. (The fact that my son didn't beg me on bent knee to see Captain America still shocks me though.)
We walked into the theater and my kids were the oldest children, by far, and I may have even been the oldest Winnie the Pooh fan there but I didn't care. I was ready to forget about the outside world for the next hour or so.
Previews came and went and then in traditional Walt Disney fashion there was a short: The Ballad of Nessie. A sweet Scottish tale of how Nessie came to live in the Loch. Billy Connolly narrated the poem and the screen had tartan patterns popping up everywhere. A little cliche but I loved it. Its animation was just like the cartoons I grew up watching. I was content for the first time in weeks.
The short ended and the main attraction started. Again, the animation was a throw back to my youth and I couldn't have been happier. John Cleese started the film with his narration with waking or trying to wake up Pooh and soon the adventure started. All the cast of characters were there: Pooh, Tigger, Roo, Kanga, Owl, Christopher Robin, Rabbit and my favorite, Piglet. Oh, and Eeyore, how can I forget him? Sorry, Eeyore.
Now there was nothing spectacular with the story or the art but it was a pure Winnie the Pooh tale. It was perfect. The lovable bear just wanted to find some honey while he and his friends got into some misunderstanding/adventure in the 100 acre wood. I was grinning ear-to-ear from beginning to end.
The band of friends showed that no one had to do something wrong to another to tell an interesting story. They worked together to help a friend and in the most sincere way. All anyone wanted to do was be a friend. So simple but so powerful. This is a tale I want my children to witness time and time again.
This was a musical - of sorts with some quirky but toe-tapping tunes only Disney can compose. But what got me grinning was that I felt like a kid again. You could see the hand-drawn animation with no one trying to convince me to wear 3D glasses or sit in the larger IMAX screen just so the studios could make a few extra.
To me, this may have been someone's idea that simple is good and nostalgia is what sells because nothing beats harking back to the days when you skinned your knee and a mother's kiss fixes it all. There is nothing wrong with that. Not one thing.
Grab your kids, grand-kids or even a date. This is a sweet movie that delivers and will shake those blues that hover over you.
My favorite thing: Piglet. Oh, and Tigger, too.
My least favorite thing: That is wasn't longer but I am not sure my cheeks could have handled smiling for more.
Rating: G
Length: 69 minutes
Review: 9 out of 10
Super Reviewer
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- Backson: [spots the items] Wow! It's amazing what you can find in the woods! [picks up a marble] A marble! [picks up a boot] And a boot! [picks up a picture of himself roaring] And oh my! [Points at the picture] That's a scary-lookin' fella! Gosh! Maybe these are his things! You know, I better pick them up so they won't get broken. That's the last thing I would want. [Falls into the pit] WHOA! Oh, my gosh! Is this a pit?! I think I'm in a pit! Hello! Anybody up there? Oh, well. I sure hope that fellow will be back soon.
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- Rabbit: Good grief! Tie them together, Piglet! Can you tie a knot?
- Piglet: I cannot.
- Rabbit: Ah, so you CAN knot.
- Piglet: No. I cannot knot.
- Rabbit: Not knot?
- Winnie the Pooh: Who's there?
- Rabbit: Pooh!
- Winnie the Pooh: Pooh who?
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- Rabbit: That's not a knot! Not, not!
- Winnie the Pooh: Who's there?
- Rabbit: Pooh!
- Winnie the Pooh: Pooh who?
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- Winnie the Pooh: Just a I suspected. Owl,we need more honey!
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- Winnie the Pooh: Owl, we need more honey.
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- Owl: We need to issue an-
- Winnie the Pooh: Gesundheit.
- Owl: What?
- Winnie the Pooh: You sneezed.
- Owl: No, the word is 'issue' not 'achoo'!
- Winnie the Pooh: You must be catching a cold.
- Eeyore: I'll probably catch it too.
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Foreign Titles
- Winnie Puuh (DE)
- Winnie l'Ourson (FR)
