…Walt Disney Pictures has temporarily allowed “Pooh’s Grand Adventure” out of the Disney vault for your purchasing enjoyment.
There are very few latter-day sequels to Disney classics that I’m willing to put my stamp of approval on, but this is one of them…and that’s mostly because it features two of the original “Pooh” voices: John Fiedler as Piglet, and Paul Winchell as Tigger. (If you didn’t hear, the actors both died in 2005…within a day of each other, eerily enough.) Also, however, this was at least a theatrical release, instead of one of those crappy straight-to-video pieces of crap like, say, “Bambi 2002.” The big thing about this DVD that will suck in “Pooh” purists even if they don’t want to embrace the film itself is that, as a special feature, Disney has included the Academy Award winning short, “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.”
Be sure to grab “Pooh’s Grand Adventure” quickly if it’s the kind of thing that tickles your fancy at all. It won’t be long before it’s put back in its slot in the Disney vault…right next to that original version of “Song of the South” that Walt used to play at parties.
