Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving

Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999) is a holiday-themed movie with our favorite characters from the Hundred Acre Woods and it was amazing.

Positives for Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999): These shorts captured the spirit and good nature of these holidays perfectly. Our characters get into more shenanigans that are hilarious. The animation looks great for something that was made for tv. And finally, they going through great characters arc that pay off by the end in satisfying ways.

Overall, Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999) is a wonderful holiday themed Winnie the Pooh movie that families can enjoy watching during the holiday seasons.

Another great christmas movie from 1999 just like Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas but this time is with Winnie The Pooh and his friends celebrating this season which is really cool and excellent.

Mixed review for this one - three holiday-theme stories (possibly from the TV show *The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh*) patched together. The stories are well-written and performed, but the animation isn't very good. What I really object to is the fluffy stuff that ties the three stories together. The music in these segments is awful--super-corny & schmaltzy (even for me!)--hard to sit through! There is also a different voice for Piglet in some segments that's a poor match for Piglet's usual voice. My 2-year old loves this video as much as his other Pooh videos, however--he calls this "the Kessie video," for Kessie, the little blue bird.

I am a big fan of Winnie the Pooh, love most of the movies, the specials and the TV series and of course the whimsical stories of AA Milne. Seasons of Giving is cute with strong messaging, but my feelings were mixed. The characters are still likable, who doesn't love Tigger, the writing is droll with many touches of charm and poignancy and the storytelling is simple, beautifully paced and still has the childhood innocence I associate Winnie the Pooh with. The highlight is the use of the episode "Find Her Keep Her", which was both heart-warming and touching. Conversely there were some things I didn't like. The animation had a scratchy look to it, with many backgrounds lacking finesse and the colouring very flat. I didn't think much of the songs either, the incidental music was decent but by the end my teeth were starting to hurt from the sugar and schmaltz that the songs exuded. Nor did I like Piglet's voice, too high in pitch and it wasn't sweet or timid enough. Thank goodness Jim Cummings and Paul Winchell fared much better, as well as Peter Cullen. In conclusion, I wasn't crazy about it but it wasn't terrible. 6/10 Bethany Cox