Comments on: Animation Addicts Podcast #299: Winnie The Pooh (2011) – The Red Balloon One https://www.rotoscopers.com/2024/06/19/animation-addicts-podcast-299-winnie-the-pooh-2011-the-red-balloon-one/ Animation News, Reviews, Interviews, Podcasts & Videos! Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 By: Morgan Stradling https://www.rotoscopers.com/2024/06/19/animation-addicts-podcast-299-winnie-the-pooh-2011-the-red-balloon-one/#comment-41327 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:08:01 +0000 https://www.rotoscopers.com/?p=62234#comment-41327 In reply to stevenlovesanimation.

Excellent point! This film would be a perfect fall release. Anyone going against HP7 Part 2 was in for a massive walloping.

]]> By: Morgan Stradling https://www.rotoscopers.com/2024/06/19/animation-addicts-podcast-299-winnie-the-pooh-2011-the-red-balloon-one/#comment-41326 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:07:07 +0000 https://www.rotoscopers.com/?p=62234#comment-41326 In reply to Jeremiah.

I mentioned this to Chelsea a while ago, but I have rewatched this movie many times since and I'm frankly EMBARRASED by this rating. What was I thinking?! I now give it 4.5 stars! I'm not sure what I was thinking. I blame sleep deprivation.

]]> By: Jeremiah https://www.rotoscopers.com/2024/06/19/animation-addicts-podcast-299-winnie-the-pooh-2011-the-red-balloon-one/#comment-40811 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:54:17 +0000 https://www.rotoscopers.com/?p=62234#comment-40811 I am agog and aghast. Only 3 and 1/2 stars? This is a masterpiece. Some of your critiques had me bewildered. What does Pooh want, Morgan? As Chelsey said, he wants honey. The want in children's media is often something very simple like that, is that a bad thing? We all need to eat, do we not? Something I learned from Lindsay Ellis back in her Youtube days is that, in a story, it's often good when one's "want" and "need" are opposed. Towards the end of the movie, Pooh wants to eat Owl's honey but he needs to help his friend, Eeyore and bring his tail to him. This creates good conflict and a satisfying resolution, as well as a good character moment for Pooh, where who he is is challenged (who he is being a good friend). As for Zoey Deschanel, I love her closing song. How utterly perfect and poignant: "I hate to say goodbye, goodbye, I hate to see the end, the end, but it's been so long since I made a friend like you." The music is cute and the lyrics are so heartwarming! More to the point, you two were laughing throughout this review recalling the jokes. That's because this is far more so a straight up comedy than the previous Pooh films: every scene has to have jokes. Like any good comedy, it works up to a climax that is simultaneously the climax of the humor. In other words, there's setup throughout the film leading up to a big comedic payoff, in this case, the scene where they're all stuck in the pit. I was very surprised neither of you even commented on this scene! I think it's hilarious, my siblings think it's hilarious, everyone I've talked to from little kids to adults thinks it's hilarious. And you didn't even mention it, you skipped over almost the entire scene! (Not quite, you very briefly touched on the friends applauding Owl's speech, but still.) So many humorous films try and fail to work up to a comedic payoff, this film succeeded. The pit-scene still makes its rounds on social media from time to time because even in isolation the gags are so good. I've still, as someone who follows animation, seen it pop up on X and Instagram. People LOVE this scene. But it's not even just that scene, there's good funny bits throughout, I would argue far funnier than the original film. Our mutual friend Rachel Wagner says, for her, a comedy is good if it made her laugh. In a comedy, anything besides just making you laugh is arguably extra, the point of a comedy is to just laugh. Well, I laughed, you two did, too! I could go on, this film is excellent. 5 out of 5 stars. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it at least somewhat, and of course film enjoyment is subjective, but all the same, I needed to defend one of my favorite movies. I hope you both are well! Congratulations on 300 episodes, that is so awesome, I'll hopefully call in soon with a voicemail to celebrate! Cheers.

]]> By: stevenlovesanimation https://www.rotoscopers.com/2024/06/19/animation-addicts-podcast-299-winnie-the-pooh-2011-the-red-balloon-one/#comment-40807 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 02:08:04 +0000 https://www.rotoscopers.com/?p=62234#comment-40807 The reason I think Winnie the Pooh (2011) didn't do well at the box office was due to the fact it was placed as a summer movie. AND its released date was the same day as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2- THE FINAL HP MOVIE. What the hell? Why would you put it up against that? To me, Winnie the Pooh isn't a summer blockbuster type franchise. It's a fall or holiday film. Why not release it for Thanksgiving? I think it's a conspiracy that Disney wanted to use this movie as an excuse to say "See! Hand drawn isn't popular anymore. It doesn't sell. Let's stick to CGI." hahaha.

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