Coming Soon: Winnie The Pooh

Coming Soon: Winnie The Pooh

Plot: Walt Disney Animation Studios returns to the Hundred Acre Wood with “Winnie the Pooh,” the first big-screen Pooh adventure from Disney animation in more than 35 years. With the charm, wit and whimsy of the original featurettes, this all-new movie reunites audiences with the philosophical “bear of very little brain” and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga, Roo—and last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail. "Well a tail is either there or it isn’t there," said Pooh. "And yours isn’t… there." Owl sends the whole gang on a wild quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit. It turns out to be a very busy day for a bear who simply set out to find some hunny.

Cast: Jim Cummings , Craig Ferguson , Tom Kenny , Travis Oates , Bud Luckey

Thoughts: Lots have been made out of cartoons and over the years we've seen increasing amounts of cartoons make their way onto the big screen. As cool as that last sentence should sound, most of these cartoons that get the movie treatment, in one way or another, have gone wrong. Scooby Doo casting issues, though not completely wrong, Garfield being CGI'd and all around terrible, the recent Smurfs movie that looks like it could be just as bad as Garfield and the one real saving grace of it all, Yogi Bear. Yogi Bear being the only decent cartoon turned movie, even if Yogi and Boo-Boo were CGI'd.

Here's what gives me hope about Winnie the Pooh, despite all the negatives I pointed out. There's no CGI. No live action bear wandering around in NYC just because it would look "funny" to some people. None of that gimmicky crap that turned childhood icons into punchlines in jokes. Winnie the Pooh looks like it's going to sick with its story, all of its originality and is going to keep it completely animated. Winnie the Pooh has the opportunity to do the one thing that none of the films really did and that is bring some damn integrity to the damn character that we all know and love.

Release Date: July 15th, 2011