Patty Vakovsky

If it hasn't already been proposed, I would like to plead the case for the next adage to be promoted to law and ensconced next to Murphy's, Godwin's, and Sturgeon's. Let's call it the Dickens Dictum, and it shall state, "If any show, series, or entertainment franchise is around long enough, it will inevitably do a homage to A Christmas Carol."

In Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo, Rabbit is the bitter old Scrooge who is declaring, "Bah, humbug!" when Easter comes around. In the film, the movie's narrator intrudes into the story and acts as the ghost of Easters past, present and future, revealing why Rabbit wants to replace the holiday with a day of chores -- Spring Cleaning Day.

The movie is a little weak and the songs don't really get your toes tapping or stick in your head afterward. The only thing I really remembered and cherished on today's rewatch was Tigger's little joke about onomatopoeia.

Unfortunately, this coloring book adaptation is weaker still, excising the narrator and distilling the Dickens homage down to one brief dream. Springtime with Roo doesn't seem to have gotten the barrage of adaptations and tie-ins that are given to the Pooh movies that get a theatrical release, so we'll have to settle for this and move on.

FOR REFERENCE:

The Disney direct-to-video animated feature, Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo, was directed by Elliot M. Bour and Saul Andrew Blinkoff from a screenplay written by Tom Rogers based on the characters created by A. A. Milne.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (altro)