Aaron, I liked your
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh review...your thoughts on the movie reflected a lot of mine, actually (especially the opinion that the whimsical nature gets slightly tedious half-way through the last segment).
Is it me, or does anyone think that Disney may have changed the transfer slightly by having simply brightened/tweaked the colours for this release? The framing of the film looks exactly identical, which is something I do to see if a transfer is different or not (if you look closely at various transfers of one film on different releases, you'll notice that the aspect ratio and framing of the image is slightly different most times). I'd have to see it to make a clear judgment, yet the screencap comparison has got me thinking...
In an additional note that should be worth noting due to the inclusion of an episode of
My Friends Tigger and Pooh (or whatever its called), as a British person, I am (and I'm guessing many others are too) actually disappointed with Disney for its treatment of a classic of British literature and its characters. I'm obviously not claiming that Disney isn't allowed to use their interpretations of characters from literature in other ways, but stuff like this is downright disrespectful to Milne. It turns what were originally intended to be entertaining characters into horribly sugary and teachy Barney-esque characters, and making them do stuff that they shouldn't be doing in the world that Milne created and Disney originally adapted well (such as Tigger skateboarding). Next thing you know, we'll see Piglet as a gangster rapper...
