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This is the 22nd full-length animated feature film from Walt Disney that combines three cartoon shorts featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Christopher Robin - all characters based on novelist A.A. Milne's books about the fictional Winnie-the-Pooh and his real-life son, Christopher Robin Milne, whose stuffed animals dun the character names.

The movie opens with a look into the real-life room of Christopher Robin, with his stuffed animals laying on a shelf, instantly giving you the impression of a peaceful and innocent aspect of a child's life. It then takes you into the animated world of the Hundred Acre Wood, where Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends live, each being portrayed as having a unique and memorable personality including the depressed Eeyore, the annoyed and garden-loving Rabbit, the wise Owl, the gentle and concerned Piglet, the hilarious Gopher, the protective Kanga, the inquisitive Roo, and the hyperactive Tigger.

John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman directed a great movie, narrated through a storybook illustration, that is combined by the three cartoon-shorts Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. Each story is full of adventures, light-hearted humor, and songs you'll love to sing along to, and each story beautifully depicts messages of giving and friendship. The music is cheerful and catchy, especially the opening song "Winnie-the-Pooh." The atmosphere that surrounds the characters, settings and plot give an innocent, carefree, peaceful and happy-go-lucky mood, making you feel trouble-free (at least in the 74 minutes of this movie).

Overall, this is a beautiful piece of animated work with a heartwarming story and unforgettable characters that brings back fond childhood memories and is a must-see for adults and children.

Grade A

I know, I know, this title might sound dumb, but I just couldn't resist.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is indeed a WONDERFUL movie. The story(s) are entertaining, the animation is good, the characters are some of my favorite characters PERIOD, and the songs are classics and very easy on the ears. My favorite song ties between "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" for how catchy it is and "Heffalumps and Woozles" for it's incredible trippy imagery. This movie is basically three shorts tied together to make a film which isn't a bad idea since these stories take place in a book and each short is at least 24ish minutes so it just kind of works. Are these stories inconsistent? Yes, but when you're a kid, you won't care or probably even notice the inconsistency because you'll be enjoying the shenanigans these characters get into. Also, the message we get by the end of the movie about growing up and not being a kid always is truly sad and touching in my opinion. Now we get to my one negative about this film and that is the recycled animation. This movie came out during Disney's Dark Age so it's kind of expected since most of the films during that time had some recycled animation so I give this negative a teeny tiny pass but they do it so much in this film that it still gets a point taken off for it. But overall, this movie can only be described as 'insanely charming', and it still remains one of my favorite animated films/Disney films of all time.

Set over the course of a year, the film follows the adventures of characters in the 100 Acre Wood consisting of the friends and toys of young boy Christopher Robin (Bruce Reitherman, Jon Walmsley and Timothy Turner) including laidback and perpetually hungry Winnie the Pooh bear (Sterling Holloway), constantly nervous Piglet (John Fiedler), downbeat and unenthused Eeyore (Ralph Wright), bouncy boastful and carefree Tigger (Paul Winchell), and a host of other characters.

Released in 1977 on a double bill with Escape from the Dark (aka The Littlest Horse Thieves), The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is based off the Winnie the Pooh stories and writings by A. A. Milne inspired by the childhood of his son Christopher Robin Milne. Originally the rights were obtained by Disney with the intention of making a feature length film, but Disney eventually decided to make a series of featurettes that could be attached to live action features. The shorts proved popular enough with audiences, but critical reception was more mixed, particularly in the United Kingdom where the initial attempts at replacing Piglet with Disney created Gopher were met with such vitriol that Piglet was added prominently to subsequent shorts. The three shorts that originated from Milne's writings: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974) were eventually repackaged into a feature film under the title The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and while not a seamless stitch job, it does feel like a cohesive whole.

While the plot in Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh feels episodic (as it would with three shorts linked end to end), it does at least feel like a complete film thanks to a unifying theme and characters that give the film a greater sense of "wholeness" than something like Fun & Fancy Free or Melody Time where it was more random in the assortment of collected material. With Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh it feels like we're glimpsing at roughly a year of life in the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin interacting with his toys and animals having small lowkey adventures, and while the adventures are small scale, there's a sense of time and progression with little details in the character interactions and environments showing movement. But even taking out those details, the stories resonate so well because these characters have such memorable and describable personalities and mannerisms that stick with you. Winnie the Pooh with his gentle good-natured absent mindedness is just a delight in how infectiously happy he is and although a "bear with very little brain" as the film often reiterates, there is a logic to his simplemindedness that brings with it a level of charm such as a scene where he, Rabbit and Piglet are lost and end up at the same spot repeatedly while trying to get home so Pooh suggests if they look for the spot they keep ending up at then they'll get home instead, it's that kind of inverted thinking that just makes the character so irresistibly lovable.

The rest of the supporting characters are just as memorable as the titular bear. Piglet is panicky and nervous but also loyal and true, Rabbit is finnicky, particular, and tightly wound but also altruistic, Owl is prideful and longwinded, and Tigger is thoughtless and impulsive but also joyful and enthusiastic. All the characters are great and memorable and they play well against each other with Rabbit's interactions with Pooh and Tigger leading to humorous exchanges, Piglet and Pooh's friendship endearing, and so many other scenes and interactions that just work so well. Even the narration by Sebastian Cabot is a character often interacting and conversing with the characters in the story with some fourth wall breaks involving the book that are both humorous and clever without being overly distracting. These are best experienced firsthand, but my favorite involves Tigger stuck in a tree and how he is rescued. The film adds an additional epilogue based on the final chapter from the Milne book, The House at Pooh Corner, and it's the perfect note to go out on story wise carrying that bittersweet weight needed for finality that sticks with you and feels just right.

While The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a package film and fits well within the Company's 70s era budget conscious mindset, it's such a well made package film that if you didn't know about the original featurette formats of the stories you'd probably think it was meant to be shown this way. While the film is definitely "simple" that shouldn't be confused for "lacking", the movie makes the simplicity part of its appeal and takes these simple stories/concepts and populates them with charming and engaging characters that help make the world of the 100 Acre Wood feel alive and welcoming and a world you're sad to say a bittersweet farewell to.

The last Walt Disney Animated Studios film to be worked on by Walt Disney himself. And as far as last films go, he could have done a lot worse. Made even more impressive by the fact that prior to this film, not a lot of people knew who Winnie the Pooh even was. Yes, there was a time when Winnie the Pooh was a nobody, a complete unknown. It sounds unbelievable, when looking at the children's toy aisles nowadays, but the fact remains.

Originally released as three short films, making this more of an anthology film, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh details the adventures of the folk of the Hundred Acre Wood. By now you all know these characters already, from melancholy Eeyore to lecturing Owl to harried Rabbit, but this is the film that put them on the map, and it does it magnificently. All the characters are introduced properly and all of them are immediately likable. Gopher, the new addition the franchise, is bit of a hit and miss with those that grew up with the original A. A. Milne stories, but personally I like him alright.

The various stories are enchantingly simple, yet immensely memorable. The last time I saw this film had been as a little child, yet I remembered it all. In perfect detail, to my great surprise. The animation style is also magnificent. This is the last of the so called scratchy Disney film, utilizing the Xerox copy paste method, but in this case it's a perfect fit, capturing the charm and essence of the original illustrations.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was one of my favourite films growing up, and its charm, innocence and simple goodness still hold up. It's a movie that captures the soul of childhood, being both simple and wondering yet surprisingly wise and caring at the same time. Definitely worth a watch, no matter your age.

I mean honestly, who doesn't love Winnie the Pooh and the whole crew? They are who you grew up with (at least kids in the 90s and before) and will never die in our hearts. They teach us important life lessons, play into our imaginations, and will always make the old feel young again. What can you possibly say about it that people don't already know? Whenever I have kids they will definitely be having this as apart of their childhood. Sometimes I still watch these shows for my Saturday morning cartoon fix. I refuse to let my inner child die and I have these cartoons to thank for helping with that. God bless Disney for bringing them to life for us (I'm not even religious!) and I hope animators find a way to bring this particular series back without ruining the originals. The other movies and things that have been made with them just aren't the same as this series. Thank you, Disney! Thank you for my beautiful childhood!

Pooh is my favorite Disney Character and I just don't know why. His ability to make every problem minuet to his lack of honey is one that makes me laugh every time.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a 1977 Disney cartoon which is composed of materials from three of Disney's previously released animated features, and all are based upon the Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne. The three animated features are Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974).

The Character Winnie the Pooh is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. Milne named the bear after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, whom you will come to know as the character Christopher Robin who is Pooh's best friend.

Milne also created characters from other Christopher's toys which were included in the story; notable though Owl and Gopher were added by Disney.

Winnie the Pooh (Christopher's teddy bear) got his name from a Canadian black bear which Christopher often saw at the London Zoo the name of the bear was "Winnie", and "Pooh", was a swan they had met while on holiday.

In the movie some additions were made, like Rabbit making Pooh part of his house décor was added by Disney himself and idea he got while reading the book. The movie also features the classic songs by the Sherman Brothers, "Winnie the Pooh" and "The Wonderful Things About Tiggers".

This movie was the last movie that Walt Disney himself had personal involvement in. Although he was not involved in the movie shooting or production, he was part of the production of one of the shorts (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree in 1966) and it was released during his lifetime and he was also involved in the production of Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which won the 1968 Academy Award for Animated Short Film, an award given to Walt Disney posthumously as he died two years before the film's release.

This 1977 classic is also rated has the same rated score in Rotten Tomatoes (the two have a 91% approval from critics making it a most watch) as its 2011 predecessor titled Winnie The Pooh.

Many would have seen this classic, and I believe there is no reason not to, if you have not already. It is a DVD to own and keep.

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This movie is my childhood. I watched the DVD millions of times over and over. It's just a series of Winnie the Pooh stories. I love the animation, visual style and songs. All the characters are memorable and timeless. I 100% recommend this filk to people of all ages.😁👍🏾

Classic Disney film pieces together the three previously released animated shorts: "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree," "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day," and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too." Extra material was added to link the stories and a fourth segment was added. This segment was about Christopher Robin having to leave the Hundred Acre Wood to start school. Growing up I was unaware of the previous shorts or even the books really. This film was my introduction to Winnie the Pooh and friends. This is a must for kids of all ages. A sweet, cute, innocent fun film. Beautifully animated with wonderful songs and lovable characters.