Springtime with Roo (also known as Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo) is a 2004 American direct-to-video Easter animated musical fantasy adventure comedy-drama film produced for Walt Disney Pictures by DisneyToon Studios, and animated by Toon City Animation in Manila, Philippines.
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| Written by | Tom Rogers |
| Based on | Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne E. H. Shepard A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| Produced by | John A. Smith |
| Starring | |
| Edited by | Robert S. Birchard |
| Music by | Mark Watters |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The film features the characters from Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise, based on the original characters from the books by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. The story is loosely based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
Unlike the previous Winnie the Pooh direct-to-video films A Very Merry Pooh Year and Seasons of Giving, Springtime with Roo does not reuse any episodes from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Plot
editOn Easter day in the Hundred Acre Wood, Roo and his friends Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore visit Rabbit's house, where they expect to celebrate Easter. Upon arrival, the friends discover that Rabbit has replaced the Easter celebration with a "Spring Cleaning" Day.
The group are tasked with cleaning Rabbit's house and while doing so, Pooh inhales dust and sneezes violently, with the impact knocking down a box containing all of Rabbit's Easter ornaments. Assuming that Rabbit had simply forgotten about Easter, the gang decide to surprise Rabbit by decorating his house with the ornaments, but once Rabbit discovers this, he angrily kicks everyone out of his home for disobeying his orders.
Seeing Roo saddened over the events, Tigger returns to Rabbit's house to try reasoning with him. When Rabbit denies ever liking Easter, Tigger and the Narrator take Rabbit back through the book to last Easter's celebration, which was sometime after Kanga and Roo had moved to the Hundred Acre Wood. During that time, Rabbit insisted on having an organized Easter party, treating it more like a professional occasion rather than a fun holiday; this controlling behavior annoyed everyone to the point that Tigger led the group into sneaking away to celebrate Easter without Rabbit, leaving the latter feeling left out. Realizing how his actions upset Rabbit, Tigger tries to apologize for his unintentional negligence, but Rabbit, still upset about the past, refuses to forgive everyone.
Back in the present, Tigger informs his friends of the reason for Rabbit's unhappiness, prompting them to think of a way to make it up to him. Meanwhile, Rabbit tries to return home, but the Narrator purposefully stops on the wrong page, where Rabbit finds Kanga and Roo's house and overhears Roo stating his wish to cheer Rabbit up. When this fails to convince Rabbit, the Narrator transports him to the future, where Rabbit discovers that while his Spring Cleaning Day celebration has been perfectly organized as planned, everyone in the Hundred Acre Wood has moved away due to his bossy behavior, much to his horror.
Rabbit soon wakes up the next morning to realize that the events were just a dream and that he still has a chance to change the future. Meanwhile, Roo, unaware of Rabbit's change of heart, rallies Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore to surprise Rabbit with a new party, when Rabbit arrives at Roo's house to reveal that he has prepared a bigger and better Easter celebration, thrilling everyone as they all participate in the festivities.
Voice cast
edit- Jimmy Bennett as Roo
- Ken Sansom as Rabbit
- Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger
- John Fiedler as Piglet
- Jeff Bennett as Piglet's singing voice
- Peter Cullen as Eeyore
- Kath Soucie as Kanga
- David Ogden Stiers as Narrator
Production
editThe film was produced by DisneyToon Studios, and its animation was outsourced to Toon City in Manila, Philippines.
Home media
editThe film was released on direct-to-DVD and direct-to-VHS on March 9, 2004. It included the theatrical trailer for Pooh's Heffalump Movie and two episodes from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ("Honey for a Bunny" and "Trap as Trap Can"). The film was later released on Blu-ray on March 11, 2014 (for the 10th anniversary of the film) as the Hippity-Hoppity Roo edition. The film is a part of Disney Movies Anywhere program.[3]
Songs
editAll tracks are written by Mark Watters
| No. | Title | Performer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "We're Huntin' Eggs Today" | Jimmy Bennett, Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett & Peter Cullen | |
| 2. | "Sniffly Sniff" | Jim Cummings | |
| 3. | "Easter Day with You" | Jimmy Bennett, Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett & Peter Cullen | |
| 4. | "The Way It Must Be Done" | Ken Sansom & Chorus | |
| 5. | "Easter Day with You (Reprise)" | Jimmy Bennett | |
| 6. | "The Grandest Easter of Them All" | Ken Sansom | |
| 7. | "Easter Day with You (Finale)" | Ken Sansom & Chorus |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo DVD Review". www.ultimatedisney.com. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
- ^ "Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo - WDSHE". Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2007-04-07. retrieved 4 February 2009
- ^ "Winnie The Pooh: Springtime With Roo: David Ogden Stiers, Jim Cummings, Jimmy Bennett, John Fielder: Amazon Digital Services LLC". Amazon.com. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ^ Animation outsourced to Toon City Animation.
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