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Animation looks spectacular. Winnie the Pooh, However, Is so frackin' boring! I remember dreading watching this as a kid on saturday mornings. I had to let my big sis get her 30 minutes in because I would be hogging the TV all morning. Winnie the Pooh is what she wanted the watch... As a kid 30 minutes felt like an eternity. I could never understand why Eeyore was so damn depressed, Why Rabbit was such a b****, and why Tigger was so bat **** crazy. I think the only one I really liked was Roo. I wish they would go back to this type of animation. The CG stuff doesn't have the same "soul" as the regular hand drawn animation.
i never appreciated Disney cartoons when I was younger. For real. I know. Hard to believe. eeyore was so damn emo.
Here's something interesting. When I was growing up, my folks only gave me and my brother Disney-style things to listen to. Actual bands were verboten, which was why my favorite first song was Rhinestone Cowboy. Still, I can still look or talk to my brother at any point and we can go through the entire dialogue of a Winnie the pooh album "excuse me a moment but there's something climbing up your table... A wadda wadda wadda..." Or a rescuers album, and even a Pete's Dragon album. We mock our parents now for being so lame, but they were just trying to help us grow. I know this sounds stupid, but I cherish having to listen to nothing but crap with my brother. We're more connected due to that isolation. (FYI, he's now a non-drinker, non-smoker, 3 houses, eight cars, and a boat, and yet we still talk like we were kids when we're together.)
With all the amazing things Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli has put out it's nice to see Disney going back to it's hand drawn stuff.
CGI is so cheap and easy to do, I doubt we'll ever see a return to the hand drawn stuff. Just flip through the Saturday morning (now) lineup. It's the kiddy equivalent of reality TV.
