Posted on 06/02/2009 11:51:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Winnie-the-Pooh, the honey-loving, cuddly bear beloved by generations of children, is to hit the big screen again in 2011 with another animated version of his adventures, US media said Tuesday.
Disney is hoping the new film chronicling the tales of Pooh and his friends, Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger and Owl will prove as big a hit as the last screen animation in 2005, The Hollywood Reporter said.
They might do it correctly this time.
Give me the hundred acre woods!! I’ll be fine.
Pooh floats....
What a headline. Groan.
“As they walked home through the Hundred Acre Wood, Piglet thought to himself how wonderful it was to have a friend like Winnie the Pooh, and Pooh thought to himself,’If the pig sneezes, he’s bleepin’ dead’.”
Piglet offends muslims.
Maybe they will change him to another animal.
Didn’t Pooh have a pop gun rifle toy? wasn’t he marching with it on guard before Tigger came bursting in? That has to go.
Tigger? well that sounds too much like the N word.
Have to change that too.
Will Pooh be gay? Tune in to find out...
ROFLMAO!!!
Please tell me Winnie won’t be marrying Rabbit and teaching Christopher Robin how to be gay....
I still say “tut tut, looks like rain” when I see a storm coming.
As crappy as the last few Pooh movies have been, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
How many of the voice actors are still around? Granted that there are certainly others available who can “do” the voices, but they are distinctive, and changes may sound “off” to the parents buying the tickets.
The Pixar guys run Disney animation now. I have good hopes.
After seeing several Disney movies since Pixar took over, I can tell you unless the name PIXAR is explicitely on the movie, don’t expect too much.
Christopher Robin comes out?
The Pixar guys only run the animation division. Lasseter, the chief creative officer for the Disney and Pixar names, is the one who directed the Toy Stories, Cars and Bug’s Life, and produced all the Pixar movies.
You sound like a man that takes his Pooh seriously.
Yes, they run the animation division and please show me one Disney movie since the merger that didn’t have the PIXAR name explicitely attached to it that was worth a damn?
In fact show me one DISNEY animated movie period worth a damn since Beauty and the Beast?
Sorry but if it doesn’t have PIXAR’s name explicitely attached to the movie, don’t hold much hope for anything out of Disney. Yes I know they are supposed to be running the animated division, but again short of the explicite Pixar movies since the merger, name me one animated movie out of Disney studios that hasn’t been crap?
There have been a few since B&B that haven’t been complete turds, but even those have been few and far between.
Eisner ran the Disney brand into the mud, and its not going to turn around anytime soon.
Well please go watch “The Tigger Movie”, “The piglet movie”, “The heffalump movie”, “Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin” and then after you recover from about 8 hours of complete animated crapola sit down and watch “The many adventures of Winnie the Pooh” and tell me that any of those other films remotely capture the spirit or wonder of the original.
In the original Disney did a fair job of capturing the AA Milnes world and characters, disneyfied, of course, but the shades of their inspiration were there, after that, nope just a property to be exploited without any thought or consideration to their source.
And to play to the pun, ever man should take his Pooh seriously, if it doesn’t float, you need more fiber.
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