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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving 10th Anniversary Edition
Score: 85%
Rating: Not Rated
Publisher: Walt Disney Home
                  Entertainment

Region: 1
Media: DVD/1
Running Time: 63 Mins.
Genre: Animated/Family/TV Series
Audio: English, French, Spanish (Dolby
           Digital Surround)

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Features:
  • Feature Presentation: "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving"
  • Episodes:
    • The Wishing Bear
    • Find Her, Keep Her
    • Magic Earmuffs
    • Groundpiglet Day
  • Bonus Features:
    • Decorate Your Own Christmas Tree
    • Coloring Fun with Piglet

This is quite a bucket of Winnie the Pooh fun! We have collected here the feature, "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving," which you might think is the entire package. But, there are also four episodes from "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" contained here, two more than when this was originally released 10 years ago. Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving 10th Anniversary Edition also features a neat pack-in stocking that your child will be excited to hang on the Christmas Tree come December. Hundred Acre magic from across several seasons is a nice treat, and parents that have worn out their old copies (probably VHS) of Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving will jump at the chance to grab this 10th Anniversary Edition.

The main event here is the Thanksgiving special, a lesson in the real meaning of the holiday. Rabbit takes his usual imperious tack when everyone gathers for their feast, lecturing the gang on how they need to find the proper items for the Thanksgiving table. This turns into a quest which, in the usual fashion, comes full circle and teaches that what's on the table isn't nearly as important as the people gathered around it. The four episodes drawn from Season 1 of "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" provide a look back at where the show began, 20 years ago. "Groundpiglet Day" and "The Magic Earmuffs" have plenty of humor, while "Find Her, Keep Her" and "The Wishing Bear" provide some nice sweetness to balance things out. Kids will wonder why some of the favorites like Heffalump aren't anywhere to be seen in the older episodes, and the overall quality of the animation appears rougher than anything produced in the last few years. Even so, the quality of the storytelling and the authenticity of each little parable is unmistakably Winnie the Pooh.

A few extras included on Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving 10th Anniversary Edition offer coloring fun for kids and the option to decorate a virtual Christmas Tree. The connection to Christmas is a bit odd, because there isn't a deep holiday or winter theme in this collection. Kids won't mind at all, and doling out episodes from "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" as bookends to other features or television specials is a smart way for Disney to stretch its release calendar. Pooh has made several evolutions over the years, and it's wonderful to see his roots.



-Fridtjof, GameVortex Communications
AKA Matt Paddock
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