Is this a step forward or a step back? Or did these guys remain exactly at the same spot? I'd say the latter happened. The previous direct-to-video features were painfully boring, but even those had a more interesting story. The characters, therefore, do not receive the proper care. The characters are fillers and are not given a chance to develop, because this is being treated as a direct sequel to the previous film. By 2014, this film is already completely forgotten, whereas the previous installment of the 70s can be at least considered a classic, fairly. Unfortunately, it doesn't only fail as a continuation of the new 2D animation within the studio, but also fails as a Winnie the Pooh story. The musical numbers are still there, even if they sucked, and the typical animated sequence seemingly composed by the imagination of several LSD-driven animators like the ones we had in classic Disney gets a humble revival here. It has, nevertheless, some positive aspects worth a mention, such as the studio not giving up to the hope of traditional 2D animation, which surely looks great, the simplicity involved in the events and the comedy, and the verbal humor, a trick that I am particularly a fan of. The official big-screen return to the Hundred Acre Wood by Walt Disney Animation Studios is an uninspired exercise of nostalgia which shockingly short running length is a sign of the studio's potential decay and lack of creativity, if we also consider that it is the third feature ever to have a direct sequel after Fantasia (1940) and The Rescuers (1977) had their respective follow-ups.
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