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Summary: The most horrible embarrassment Disney has made
Review: Anyone with a two-year-old will have to watch the same movie over and over and over again. This is NOT the movie you want to watch. Better options include both The Tigger Movie and Piglet's Big Movie.
First of all, the animation is very bad. Remember the Pooh cartoons that used to be on ABC on Saturday mornings? That's what this is like. Choppy animation and sharp coloring. Not the soothing watercolored sketches that are in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
THEN - they've completely massacred the characters. If you like the sensitive nature of Piglet, the generosity of Pooh, the impulsivity of Tigger, and the uptight Rabbit, you will hate this movie.
The movie follows no distinct plot line. It begins with a misunderstanding of the season (is it November or February?) that can be blamed on individual sheets of Rabbit's day-by-day calendar (now, where would a rabbit get one of these???) blowing away in the wind.
Next, there are about twenty or thirty minutes dealing with the way they figure out that it's nearly Thanksgiving (that's odd - I didn't realize that the English celebrated American Thanksgiving) and the accompanying preparations. Naturally all of Rabbit's friends bungle the Thanksgiving, but make it all right later.
As if this movie wasn't bad enough to start, we morph from the first story line into an absolutely dreadful segment (which takes up the rest of the movie) about a horrid little kestral named, appropriately, Kessie. Kessie is a very whiny little bird who is somehow orphaned and abandoned in the Hundred Acre Wood in DECEMBER.
The rest of the movie focuses on Rabbit's foster parenting ability, and his struggle to let Kessie go, as the seasons change and she prepares to fly south.
As a previous reviewer said, it's extremely obvious that this movie was patched together to get it ready in time for Christmas.
Rating: 
Summary: Okay for a long video
Review: Contrary to the video jacket, this video celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in the Hundred Acre Wood. The "Story of Kessie" is the best segment of this video, but it is saddening for young children. I would recommend this video as a safe, fun for young children, holiday video.
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Summary: Okay for a long video
Review: Contrary to the video jacket, this video celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in the Hundred Acre Wood. The "Story of Kessie" is the best segment of this video, but it is saddening for young children. I would recommend this video as a safe, fun for young children, holiday video.
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Summary: I love this movie
Review: I have seen this movie like 5 timez and i still love it. Even though i m 14 yearz old, i luv this video. It is a very good video that the whole family kan enjoy. It is filled with many laghs, and it is just a great movie. The musicals are just fabulous. I'm sure your children will love this movie as much as i do!!!
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Summary: A must see for any Pooh Lover!
Review: I love this movie. Probley because I love Whinnie the Pooh and all his friends. This movie expresses all the gifts of friendship. I'm 11 and still love this movie! My mom is 57 and she loves this movie. I think it was great all the way through, although at the end it replays one of the eppisodes with Kessie. I find that ok because I love that episode. If you don't want to take the time to watch that just fast forward. The movie has somthing that makes you just feel good inside. I REALLY RECOMMEND IT!
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Summary: Definitely not a Classic!
Review: I usually love Winnie the Pooh. This video is not like the originals that my family and I enjoy to watch. It is long and it is good in the beginning, but then at the end, it gets boring and the characters are more flat and boring. When I watch this, I never am able to finish the same day. I always get bored, and then I turn it off, and I have not had a good time watching Pooh. The animation is not as good as it can be, and the movie is not as fun. If you want to watch enjoyable Pooh stories, you may want to search for the videos labled "Storybook Classics", Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, the Blustery Day, Tigger too, and a Day for Eeyore(Pooh is voiced by Hal Smith here in this story). The Blustery Day is the best one, then the Honey Tree, and the Day for Eeyore is not full of action, but is better than Tigger too, because Tigger too is a little scary and mean. Those are based on stories by A.A Milne. If you are a self respecting parent, you should buy that magical collection of stories, and avoid the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. This story is not as fun as the originals, and it is a little disappointing. You are in the story also accompanied by a bluebird named Kessie. Just to mention, the voices are different in this movie, and if you watch the Storybook Classics, you will see the difference. The synthesis is, that if you are a pooh lover, you should not waste time with this, you should get something you will enjoy. Stick to the originals!(Blustery Day, Honey Tree, Tigger too, Day for Eeyore).
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Summary: Once again, with direct to video movies, Get the Facts first
Review: If you are looking for big budget Winnie the Pooh entertainment, you have two choices. First there are the original classics, available seperately on VHS, or together in both VHS and DVD under the title: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Second choice is their more recent theatrical feature, The Tigger Movie. Both are WONDERFUL films! Anything else you get however, at the time of this review that is, is going to be much lower quality, made for TV stuff.
What we have here is not truthfully a NEW feature. There's been a lot of false advertising by the direct to video market about NEW Disney features. This, as was the case with Hercules:Zero to Hero, and some others, is really just a compilation of TV series episodes, linked together with some badly done new footage.
So how can I give this video 5 stars you ask? Well, the second story is reason enough! But I'm getting ahead of myself. This video links 3 stories. The first is an average episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh TV series, originally entitled "Groundpiglet's Day," in which the Hundred Acre Wood family gets rather confused, thinking that Winter is over when in fact, it's just about to start. This, like most episodes of the TV series, is a charming little story, though nothing spectacular. The second story is what makes this film so wonderful. This is not actually an episode of the TV series, but a Holiday Special originally called, A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving. It's a wonderful story with great songs and higher quality animation than you'll see in the rest of the video. As I said before, this story is enough to earn the video 5 stars. After that one, we see the Pooh characters preparing for Christmas. This part is a little hard to watch, because the voices sound nothing like those in the other segments, but there is little continuity throughout this video anyway, considering it has so many different sources. Here we find Rabbit telling the story of how he came to raise a baby bird named Kessie. The original name for the episode this leads into is "Find Her, Keep Her," a very popular and touching episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. So popular in fact, that Kessie had a sequel episode, and ended up a regular character in the more recent series, The Book of Pooh.
The final comment: If you like the TV show, or if you liked the Thanksgiving special, get this video, it's great if you know what to expect!
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Summary: Adorable Movie for 'Winnie-the-Pooh' Fans
Review: In this wonderful 70-minute film, we are brought to the Hundred Acre Wood in three different delightful tales that are sure to brighten up even the coldest day of the year, for viewers of all ages. SEASONS OF GIVING starts on a cold and blustery day in the Hundred Acre Wood, when Piglet, Pooh, Rabbit, and Tigger set out on a quest to find Winter, a season that they seem to have "missed." While searching for Winter, the four friends begin a wild search to find the perfect ingredients for the greatest Thanksgiving feast, which eventually leads to the Christmas holidays, and a surprise visit from a very special friend. In the first story, GROUNDPIGLET DAY, we meet up with the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood, as they ring in Spring. The second story, starring Rabbit, A WINNIE THE POOH THANKSGIVING, we find the beloved Rabbit rushing about, which ultimately defeats the true meaning of the holiday season all together. The third, and final story, again starring Rabbit, FIND HER, KEEP HER, features Rabbit showing his soft, and caring side, instead of his often grumpy side, when he finds, and adopts a wayward baby bird. Featuring gorgeous animation, five brand new songs on this straight-to-video release, and everyone's favorite characters, Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, Beaver, Roo, Kanga, and Christopher Robin, this film is sure to be a pleaser for the entire family to gather around the TV, and watch during this enchanting season. Winni-the-Pooh fans can not miss this movie! Erika Sorocco
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Summary: I was disappointed with this video - not a classic.
Review: My son absolutely loves Winnie The Pooh and has the original "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh". I was excited to see that a new full length video had been released, but I was very disappointed in what I saw. The animation is not done very well and it seems like it was just slapped together to make sure it was released before the Christmas season. Annoying things to me include the fact that Rabbit is green, and I remember him being yellow in the original and the fact that it looks like the characters don't blend in with their backgrounds - in other words it wasn't done very well. The original is far superior to this one. My son still looks at it as he is only 2 years old, but as an adult it is a disappointment.
Rating:
Summary: I was disappointed with this video - not a classic.
Review: My son absolutely loves Winnie The Pooh and has the original "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh". I was excited to see that a new full length video had been released, but I was very disappointed in what I saw. The animation is not done very well and it seems like it was just slapped together to make sure it was released before the Christmas season. Annoying things to me include the fact that Rabbit is green, and I remember him being yellow in the original and the fact that it looks like the characters don't blend in with their backgrounds - in other words it wasn't done very well. The original is far superior to this one. My son still looks at it as he is only 2 years old, but as an adult it is a disappointment.
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