Product Details

• Actors: Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway, John Fiedler, Jon Walmsley, Hal Smith
• Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman
• Writers: Ralph Wright, A.A. Milne, Julius Svendsen, Larry Clemmons, Vance Gerry
• Producers: Walt Disney
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Run Time: 25 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0788822721
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,246 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The Disney animated films of any given period all seem to be cut from one big piece of the same brightly colored cloth. Whatever their sources, they have all been seamlessly Disneyized. The Winnie the Pooh shorts are typical products of the Wolfgang Reitherman period of the '60s and '70s, supervised by the animation director responsible for The Sword in the Stone and The Jungle Book. It's jaunty, tuneful stuff, but produced on the cheap, crude, and sketchy-looking in comparison with recent peak achievements of Disney craftsmanship such as Mulan. This second installment (1968) takes off from one of the most stirring episodes in the second of A.A. Milne's books of stories about Christopher Robin and the Hundred Acre Woods crew, "The House at Pooh Corner," in which the wood weathers a storm and even a flood, and the animal chums learn to pull together in an emergency. Think of it as a disaster movie for the preschool crowd. --David Chute

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ahhh... The classical Pooh!, June 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is my all-time favorite DISNEY series. I've been watching the entire set of tapes for WTP since I was about 2 or 3 and I STILL never get tired of it! There are 3 episodes in all, and if you were to put em together, you'd get what they call "The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh". This is but one of the many chapters that were used in that movie but all 3 used to have to be sold seperately back in the day. However, I was one of the lucky ones to get the COMPLETE VHS boxed-set that had all 3 Pooh-Bear episodes including: "Winnie The Pooh And The Honey "(1966), "Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day"(1968), "Winnie the Pooh And Tigger Too!"(1974). Yes, it even had the BONUS episode, "Winnie The Pooh And A Day For Eeyore"(1983). Blustery Day itself, is one of my favorites next to Tigger Too and is a very VERY fun movie! When a terrible storm hits the 100 Acre Wood, Piglet is stranded out at sea during a giant flood! Can Pooh save his friend within the nick of time? You'll just have to watch to find out!! I highly reccomend you add this to your Disney collection and get the kids. They'll love it! BTW, don't pay any attention to those NEWER versions of the classical Pooh. In my opinion, it's just not the same. They don't make 'em like they used to. :(

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple but sweet, good lesson in friendship, & FUN!, May 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day - Learn to Read Edition [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I watched this video with my own children and now have the good fortune to be watching it with my 2 year old grandaughter, who, in this world of high tech, big budget blockbuster cartoon movies was absolutely transfixed when she saw it the first time! She sat in her little red chair and couldn't take her eyes off the screen. Even though the animation isn't as wild and colorful as some of the cartoons out there now, its soft tones and simplicity activate a childs imagination, and you can see that they are absolutely drawn into this timeless tale as the scenes unfold and the pages of the book turn. Winnie the Pooh is ageless, and this is a simply sweet, fun video that has proved it can stand up in a blustery wind to anything out there on the market today!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully true to the original book, January 8, 2001

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M. Lilliquist (Bellingham, Washington USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is Winnie the Pooh as A.A. Milne would recognize him: Endearing and beautifully meandering stories of imagination, not polluted by an obsession with right-and-wrong and conflict as is so common in children's TV shows and movies.

As much as I respect Disney for saving the whole Pooh works from obscurity, I have to cringe at the mass marketing machine that has followed; and I feel disappointed at the mundane and ordinary quality of the more recent Pooh stories/videos. The faces are the familiar, but the stories just aren't the same. The newer works by Disney seem to be made for the Video Generation, with just too much "action" and noise. Stick to the "originals!" (Blustery Day; Honey Tree; Tigger Too)