Winnie the Pooh is Back in an All New Adventure!
The lovable bear that is all “stuffed with fluff” is back!
“Winnie the Pooh” the all new feature film from Walt Disney Animation Studios is out in cinemas on 15th April 2011 and is Pooh’s first starring role for over 30 years! Do you remember watching Winnie the Pooh cartoons as a child? Maybe your parents read you the Winnie the Pooh stories before you went to sleep at night?
The Winnie the Pooh stories are a classic part of almost everyone’s childhood and, even though they were published over 80 years ago, they still touch our hearts today. Winnie the Pooh was originally a teddy bear owned by Christopher Robin Milne, the son of A A Milne, and it was through his own childhood stories, told to him by his father, that Winnie the Pooh was created, and has since developed into icon he is today.
As some of Britain’s best loved children’s characters the Winnie the Pooh animals are loved and remembered by kids and adults alike. Is “bouncy floucy full of fun” Tigger your favourite character, or maybe Eeyore who seems to have so much bad luck, maybe l-l-little piglet who really is s-s-so b-b-brave, or is it Pooh who always has a rumbly tumbly and is constantly on the lookout for hunny? We all have a favourite Winnie the Pooh character and people across the world have Tigger games, Winnie the Pooh DVDs, Piglet books and Eeyore soft toys. Winnie the Pooh is so popular that it is speculated that the product range is the second largest for the Walt Disney Company, just behind Mickey Mouse!
“Winnie the Pooh” is created completely in hand-drawn 2D animation and is a deliberate step away from the hundreds of 3D films which seem to be bombarding our cinemas lately. The story is narrated by John Clease, a nod towards the British-ness of Pooh, and takes place within the storybook of “Winnie the Pooh”. The characters within the movie interact with the pages and the words on the pages, sometimes with disastrous consequences!
Based on three short stories "In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail" "In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day," and "In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expedition to the North Pole", in the course of the movie, Eeyore manages to lose his tail again, Pooh gets a very rumbly tumbly, Rabbit concocts a plan to save Christopher Robin, Pooh’s tumbly is still rumbly, and Piglet has to be very very b-b-brave!
The beautiful animation of Pooh’s hunny world, the humour, whether it’s the funny suggestions the animals put forward for Eeyore’s tail or the cute dialogue between of the characters “It’s issue, not achew!”, as well as a wonderful Hans Zimmer soundtrack and songs from Zooey Deschanel, including a new version of the iconic Winnie the Pooh Song by the Sherman Brothers, Disney has really hit the nail on the head with this brand new Winnie the Pooh movie!
“Winnie the Pooh” is released in UK cinemas 15th April 2011
