Passing by all of the advertisements for \u201cbad teachers,\u201d vampires, and \u201chorrible bosses,\u201d the kids settled into the velour seats at the theater and saw the delightful new movie, \u201cWinnie the Pooh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eeyore has lost his tail, and Pooh is very hungry.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the entire plot that charmingly inhabits the 73 minutes long movie (including the opening and credits).\u00a0 But if you can get over paying $10 a ticket for sixty-nine minutes, you will enjoy this throw-back of a film.<\/p>\n
A.A. Milne\u2019s classic characters seem hand-drawn, simple \u2013 there\u2019s no Pixar modern graphics in the Hundred Acre Wood.\u00a0 And the stuffed characters are so generous spirited, you can\u2019t help but leave the theater with a bit more joy that you came in with.<\/p>\n
The film is enhanced by Zooey Deschanel\u2019s new indie-sounding songs and the narration of John Cleese. While I sat there, I marveled that the same man who gave voice to Pooh when I was a child was still performing.\u00a0 However, I later realized that Jim Cummings had seamlessly begun filling in for the original voice of the late Sterling Holloway.<\/p>\n
Also, it\u2019s nice to see how prominently the movie features the written word, as if each scene were being read from a book.\u00a0 In fact, at one point, the letters themselves show up for Winnie to help him save the day.<\/p>\n
Take the kids \u2014 if you have young ones, especially.\u00a0 (My ten year old son and I had a deal that if he ran into his friends he could pretend to be going to see Harry Potter.) And stay for the credits, which so sweetly demonstrate the magic kids can pull off with stuffed animals, some books, and a lot of imagination.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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