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Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
DVD cover
Directed by
Written byTom Rogers
Based onWinnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
E. H. Shepard
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Produced byJohn A. Smith
Starring
Narrated byDavid Ogden Stiers
Edited byRobert S. Birchard
Music byMark Watters
Production
company
Distributed byWalt Disney Home Entertainment
Release date
  • March 9, 2004 (2004-03-09)
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Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Springtime with Roo (also known as Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo) is a 2004 American animated musical film produced for Walt Disney Pictures by Disneytoon Studios, and animated by Toon City Animation in Manila, Philippines.

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

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On 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. In Rabbit's absence, the group discover that all of their Easter ornaments had been hidden in Rabbit's closet. 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. Still upset with his friends, Rabbit insists that Easter will never be celebrated in the Hundred Acre Wood again. Confused as to why Rabbit no longer likes Easter, Tigger and the story's 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. On that day, Rabbit had insisted on an organized Easter party, but his strict behavior annoyed everyone to the point that Tigger led the group into sneaking away to celebrate Easter without Rabbit, leaving him feeling left out. Embittered by the past, Rabbit continues to disallow Easter.

Tigger returns to the present and informs his friends of the reason behind Rabbit's banning of Easter, causing Roo to sympathize with Rabbit. Meanwhile, Rabbit also returns to the present, 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, though this fails to change Rabbit's mind. Frustrated with Rabbit's stubbornness, the Narrator transports him to the future, where Rabbit's Spring Cleaning Day celebration has been organized just as he wanted. However, Rabbit is horrified to learn that all of his friends have left the Hundred Acre Wood, causing him to realize the consequences of his selfishness.

Rabbit 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 decides to cheer Rabbit up by repairing his Easter hat, which the latter had damaged yesterday in his frustration. While Roo and his friends work on their surprise, 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

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Production

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The film was produced by DisneyToon Studios, and its animation was outsourced to Toon City in Manila, Philippines.

Home media

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The 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

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All tracks are written by Mark Watters.

No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
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

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References

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  1. ^ "Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo DVD Review". www.ultimatedisney.com. Retrieved February 4, 2009.
  2. ^ "Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo - WDSHE". Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved April 7, 2007. retrieved 4 February 2009
  3. ^ "Winnie The Pooh: Springtime With Roo: David Ogden Stiers, Jim Cummings, Jimmy Bennett, John Fielder: Amazon Digital Services LLC". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  1. ^ Animation outsourced to Toon City Animation.
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