Winnie the Pooh (2011)
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The residents of the Hundred Acre Wood must team up to rescue Christopher Robin from a mysterious creature while Pooh searches for his missing honey.
The story
Set inside a storybook, the film follows the adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, including Winnie the Pooh, who live in the Hundred Acre Wood and can interact directly with the book's narrator and text. One morning, Pooh discovers that he has run out of honey. While searching for more, he visits Eeyore and notices that Eeyore's tail has gone missing. A contest is later held, offering a pot of honey as a prize for any participant who can find a suitable replacement tail for Eeyore, but every attempt fails.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Set inside a storybook, the film follows the adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, including Winnie the Pooh, who live in the Hundred Acre Wood and can interact directly with the book's narrator and text. One morning, Pooh discovers that he has run out of honey. While searching for more, he visits Eeyore and notices that Eeyore's tail has gone missing. A contest is later held, offering a pot of honey as a prize for any participant who can find a suitable replacement tail for Eeyore, but every attempt fails. Later, Pooh arrives at Christopher Robin's house to ask for honey, but finds him gone, and a note left behind. Owl concludes that Christopher Robin has been abducted by a creature called the 'Backson'. Rabbit plans to trap the Backson with a pit, while Tigger decides to hunt it alone, eventually taking Eeyore with him. Tigger dresses Eeyore as the Backson to train him, but Eeyore hides underwater and finds an anchor to use as a tail. Pooh falls into the Backson pit, and the group eventually reunites. After a series of mishaps involving the anchor and a chase with Tigger, Pooh uses letters from the book's text to build a ladder for everyone to climb out. Christopher Robin returns, clarifying he was just at school. Pooh eventually finds Eeyore's tail with Owl and returns it, winning the honey contest. In a post-credits scene, the Backson is revealed to be real but friendly.
- First release year
- 2011
- Runtime (minutes)
- 63
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Stephen Anderson; Don Hall
- Writers
- Stephen Anderson · story; Clio Chiang · story; Don Dougherty · story; Don Hall · story; Kendelle Hoyer · story; Brian Kesinger · story; Nicole Mitchell · story; Jeremy Spears · story
- Cast and characters
- John Cleese · Mr. Narrator; Jim Cummings · Winnie the Pooh; Jim Cummings · Tigger; Travis Oates · Piglet; Bud Luckey · Eeyore; Huell Howser · Backson; Jack Boulter · Christopher Robin; Tom Kenny · Rabbit
- Genres
- animated; musical; comedy; fantasy; children's
- Themes
- friendship; selflessness; adventure
- Tone and mood
- gentle; pleasing; whimsical
- Premise and plot tags
- buddy comedy; musical; fantasy
- Source material / true-story basis
- book series by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard
- Franchise connections
- Winnie the Pooh
- Reception
- The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the animation style but criticized its short runtime.
- Awards and nominations
- Annie Award · winning films · win
- Production trivia
- The film was planned to feature five stories from the A. A. Milne books, but the final cut drew inspiration from three.; The film was intended to be a feature-length work instead of a featurette based on a five-minute pitch.; The film was the most recent traditionally animated theatrical feature film from Disney Animation.
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