Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) 7.8
Christopher Robin's bear attempts to raid a beehive in a tall tree. Director:Wolfgang Reitherman |
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) 7.8
Christopher Robin's bear attempts to raid a beehive in a tall tree. Director:Wolfgang Reitherman |
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| Sterling Holloway | ... |
Winnie the Pooh
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Junius Matthews | ... |
Rabbit
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| Hal Smith | ... |
Owl
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| Howard Morris | ... |
Gopher
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| Sebastian Cabot | ... |
Narrator
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| Clint Howard | ... |
Roo
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Barbara Luddy | ... |
Kanga
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Bruce Reitherman | ... |
Christopher Robin
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Ralph Wright | ... |
Eeyore
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Winnie the Pooh, the honey loving silly old bear attempts to get honey from a bee tree, so after climbing the tree didn't work, he borrows Christopher Robin's balloon, dunks himself in mud and floats to the top of the honey tree incognito as a little black rain cloud. After escaping the angry bees, Pooh decides to get honey the old fashion way: getting some from Rabbit, so after stuffing his face with all of Rabbit's honey, Pooh attempts to climb out Rabbit's front door, but becomes stuck! No matter how hard everyone tries, they can't get him out, so they wait for Pooh to lose weight before they can get him out. Then along comes Gopher who agrees to help get Pooh out and almost feeds him more honey! But then one morning, Pooh is finally freed from the doorway and ends up in another sticky situation-quite literally! Written by Dylan Self <robocoptng986127@aol.com>
The "Winnie the Pooh" cartoons from Disney are classics. This is the quality program that you would want your children to see. And it makes you glad you have children so that you have an excuse to see it too.
They did a wonderful job of adapting the A. A. Milne stories to the screen. It's good clean fun with no "undesirable" elements such as violence or bathroom humor. All the characters are brought to life faithfully and their casting of the voices is perfect. Sterling Holloway IS Winnie.
The story line of this cartoon revolves around Winnie, the honey-loving bear trying various schemes to get his golden delight. He is so funny, stopping at nothing to get some honey, regardless of the practicality of the effort. He uses a toy balloon to float to the bees' nest high up in a tree, but is foiled by the bees.
Each different character has a unique trait. Eeyore shows the depressed side of human nature, always finding the down side of anything. The other characters succeed in cheering him up. Owl is the "educated" one who loves to hear himself talk. Tigger, happy-go-lucky tiger bounces around exuberantly on his coil-spring tail, greeting everyone, and sometimes accidentally knocking them over. The cartoons say a lot about friendship -- friends helping friends.
Very enjoyable -- worth seeing, whether you're a child of 3 or 93.