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Winnie the Pooh
Mar. 26th, 2022 07:40 amIf The Princess and the Frog was the swansong of Disney’s traditional hand-drawn animation studio, then 2011’s Winnie the Pooh is the swan’s last, sad gasp after being clubbed on the head.
This movie is aesthetically similar to the 1977 Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which I found rather dull, and, well, honestly I found this one pretty dull too. There are some fun scenes where the characters interact with the text of the book: my favorite was the bit where every single word turns to “HONEY,” because Pooh has had nothing to eat ALL DAY (I feel you, man), and then there is a trippy dream sequence a la the pink elephants in Dumbo where Pooh envisions a world made of honey… including Pooh statues made of honey… and then he bites the head off one of the honey Poohs…
Okay, I wasn’t so sure about that specific aspect of the execution, but I respect the fact that the movie went all out with this concept.
The movie made a decent profit ($50 million dollars on a budget of $30 million), but the hand-drawn animation studio still got the ax. I suspect that certain muckety-mucks had it in for the studio; if this movie had been an absolute blockbuster, they would have taken the studio down on the next one.
This movie is aesthetically similar to the 1977 Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which I found rather dull, and, well, honestly I found this one pretty dull too. There are some fun scenes where the characters interact with the text of the book: my favorite was the bit where every single word turns to “HONEY,” because Pooh has had nothing to eat ALL DAY (I feel you, man), and then there is a trippy dream sequence a la the pink elephants in Dumbo where Pooh envisions a world made of honey… including Pooh statues made of honey… and then he bites the head off one of the honey Poohs…
Okay, I wasn’t so sure about that specific aspect of the execution, but I respect the fact that the movie went all out with this concept.
The movie made a decent profit ($50 million dollars on a budget of $30 million), but the hand-drawn animation studio still got the ax. I suspect that certain muckety-mucks had it in for the studio; if this movie had been an absolute blockbuster, they would have taken the studio down on the next one.
