Friday 18 January 2008

The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh


I feel sorry for Edward Bear. This terrific film is constantly ridiculed by post-pubescent teenagers whose adolescence can't let them think of anything but a certain rabbit and his pesky mansion. In all honesty, 'The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh' is pretty damn fabulous, and the only reason it is frowned upon is because it involves a cast of child-friendly characters.

'The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh', like an awful lot of other films, is one of those charming, laid-back classics which you can keep coming back to. It isn't very serious and most of the chapters in this film prove immensly entertaining. Pooh Bear manages to turn even the most simplest things into amazing charm-fests, just like in 'My Neighbour Totoro'.

'The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh' has all of Walt Disney's trademarks. Beautiful animation, decent soundtrack, affective, simple events and characters you actually care about. This is easily one of the finest film performances of Disney's life, perhaps even of all time.

One gripe I have with 'The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh' is that it is over so quickly. Surely they could have spared just a few more chapters? What we've been given is brilliant enough to warrant any purchase, but it could have been a lot longer. While I usually wouldn't let this get in the way of my enjoyment, 'The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh' is one of those films which needs to be quite substantial in length.

I also found Christopher Robin's accent to be far too annoying. I love you English folk as much as any other noob but the accent felt very out of place. While Pooh's lack of wit and frequent spelling errors ("hunny", "rnig", "thotful") provide awesome humour, Christopher Robin's accent made me laugh in a way I shouldn't.

Four Out Of Five.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love this film what do u mean 4 out of 5 it should be 999999999999999999gigjalion x 3776345763576396396 a billion times out of 5....!!!!!!!

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