Product Details

• Actors: Sterling Holloway, Junius Matthews, Hal Smith, Howard Morris, Sebastian Cabot
• Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman
• Writers: Ralph Wright, A.A. Milne, Dick N. Lucas, Ken Anderson, Larry Clemmons
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Run Time: 25 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0788822705
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #180,459 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Four Winnie the Pooh shorts are repackaged into one set: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), the Oscar-winning Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974), and Winnie the Pooh and a Day For Eeyore (1983). The first three were strung together in 1997 as the popular film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The merits of these adaptations of A.A. Milne's classic tales are up to debate, but the impact that these shorts--especially the first Two--had on kids and parents in America is not. Winnie (the Disney version, anyway) became an icon for millions of kids and parents. The vocal talent is exceptional, including Sterling Holloway's Pooh, Paul Winchell's Tigger, and Ralph Wright's Eeyore (Wright also penned the adaptations). The two later stories lost some of the voices and some of the magic, but Pooh fans will enjoy these tales, which had varying degrees of success but share the same distinctive pedigree. --Doug Thomas

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The homogenized Disney version of Pooh Bear is so firmly established by now that it has virtually supplanted the classic A.A. Milne/Ernest Shephard renditions of the Hundred Acre Wood characters, introduced in a series of British children's books first published in the 1920s. This initial installment won director Wolfgang Reitherman (The Jungle Book) a 1966 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, and at the time the prize seemed a bad joke, a self-administered pat on the back for deflavorized commercial kid-culture. The Disneyfication of the planet has progressed to the point that this early, gentle, tuneful outing looks pretty benign, almost a beloved artifact in its own right. The sickly songs by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman (Mary Poppins) qualify as camp classics. The inimitable growly tones of Sterling Holloway, as Pooh, are a definite asset, although the melancholy donkey Eeyore (voice by Ralph Wright, who also wrote the screenplay) is probably the most successful page-to-screen translation, lugubrious and droll at the same time. --David Chute

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Shame on Disney, May 5, 2001

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This review is from: Winnie the Pooh Storybook Classics Collection [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I bought this set because my daughter so enjoyed her other video, "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" (which seems to be out of print now). I didn't realize that this set is essentially a repackaging of the same material from that video (1 of the 4 tapes is new material). I much prefer the original tape to this set - there are a lot of ads at the beginning of every tape, so the "ads to watchable video" ratio is extremely high in the set version. There were ads on the original tape, too, but you simply went through them once and then had essentially 3 tapes of uninterrupted watchable video. This set is clever packaging that makes it look like you're getting a lot at a good price, when in fact you're essentially getting one movie over multiple tapes and 4 times the amount of ads that you would normally see.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Children and adults of all ages will love this video., February 7, 1999

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James F. Bowden (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree [VHS] (VHS Tape)

There are two stories on this video. The first deals with Pooh trying to find a way to reach the honey in a tall tree without the bees discovering what he is up to. He enlists the help of Christopher Robin who lends him his balloon. After his failed attempt at the honey tree, the second story unfolds as Pooh visits rabbit for lunch. There, he eats so much that he can't get out of rabbits front door. He must wait until he loses weight so that Christopher Robin and friends can pull him out. My 15 month old baby loves this video so much that she will sit through the entire 30 minutes of this video and interact with the characters. Any video that can capture the attention of a 1 year old must be good!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 2 Classics, 2 Not So Classics., January 28, 2001

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Alexandra Uribe Coughlan (Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winnie the Pooh Storybook Classics Collection [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Of the four movies, two, "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" and "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree", are real winners. If your child (like mine) loves music, get ready to watch these over and over. During all of "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore" and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too", my daughter kept waiting for the characters to sing. Other than "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", there is not a song in either of them and, be warned that the voice of Pooh in "...Day for Eeyore" is different from the one in the other videos (which you might have to explain). Despite the lack of musical numbers, the movies are still good, especially the one in which Pooh and friends put themselves out to try to make Eeyore's birthday cheerful.