Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo

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Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004)
Directed by	Elliot M. Bour Saul Andrew Blinkoff
Written by	Tom Rogers
Starring	Jim Cummings Peter Cullen Ken Sansom David Ogden Stiers John Fiedler Jimmy Bennett Kath Soucie
Music by	Mark Watters
Distributed by	Walt Disney Home Video
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	65 minutes (USA)
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Piglet's Big Movie (2003)
Followed by	Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
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Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo is a direct-to-video animated film, featuring characters from Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh franchise.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Trivia 4 External Links

[edit] Plot

An adaptation of the Charles Dickens's classic, A Christmas Carol. An overexcited Roo, along with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore, pay Rabbit a visit to celebrate Easter. But instead of finding an Easter party they find a Spring Cleaning Day celebration.While the gang clean up Rabbit's house, Roo finds all their Easter eggs and decorations stored away in Rabbit's closet, and throws a surprise Easter party for Rabbit. Unfortunately, he is furious at them for not doing his "Spring Cleaning Day", and sends them out. Roo is sad that Rabbit is unhappy, and Tigger wants Roo to have a happy Easter, so Tigger tries to talk to Rabbit while Roo and the others try to make an Easter celebration of their own in their hopes of cheering up Rabbit. In order to convince Rabbit that he still misses Easter, Tigger takes Rabbit out of the storybook and back in time [a few chapters of the book] to last year's Easter celebration. Rabbit, as the Easter Bunny, tried to make everything as organized, orderly, and perfect as possible, treating Easter like a strict, working business. Tigger and the others wanted to have fun and unqiue with making and hunting the eggs, but Rabbit wouldn't let anyone have Easter the way they wanted, claiming, "It isn't fun; it's Easter!" So Tigger and the others swiped all the Easter eggs behind Rabbit's back, and he found them hunting the eggs and celebrating Easter without him. Everyone is more happy with Tigger being the "Easter Bunny" instead of Rabbit. Feeling left out of the fun and disappointed that he isn't the one getting this kind of honor from his friends, it was then he decided to stop the Hundred Acre Wood from having another Easter celebration again. The present Tigger sadly returns to tell Roo and the others that Easter is still cancelled while Rabbit returns home in the book. Although Tigger feels that he had let Roo down, the only thing Roo wants is for Rabbit to be happy again, so he and the others try to come up with a plan to do so. Meanwhile, the narrator purposely takes Rabbit to Roo's house instead of his own to show him how much Roo and the others still care about him, but Rabbit remains stubborn and unconvinced. So late that night, the narrator takes Rabbit into the "pages that not have yet been written", or into the future of the Hundred Acre Wood. It is Spring Cleaning Day, and all the supplies and chores are organized exactly as Rabbit wanted. Rabbit is happy about this at first, but he later learns that all his friends had moved away because of his selfishness. Rabbit finally realizes that he was wrong to dictate his friends and mistreat them so badly, and decides to change the future by changing his attitude to everyone else. The next morning, Roo and the others come up with another idea to cheer Rabbit up, and while they are busy working, Rabbit, feeling as "giddy as a jackrabbit", brings out all the Easter decorations and starts happily preparing a big surprise for his friends. Later that same morning, he returns to Roo and the others as if he was still angry about Easter, only to give them all their favorite Easter belongings, and decorate the Hundred Acre Wood for them to have the best Easter egg hunt ever. In turn, Roo and the others give Rabbit his Easter surprise; his old Easter Bunny hat fixed like new. Everyone in the Hundred Acre Wood has the best Easter ever, knowing that the best part of Easter is "the way we show our pals that we care".

[edit] Cast

• Jim Cummings Winnie-the-Pooh,Tigger
• Peter Cullen Eeyore
• Ken Sansom Rabbit
• David Ogden Stiers Narrator
• Jimmy Bennett Roo
• Kath Soucie Kanga

[edit] Trivia

• Christopher Robin, Owl and Gopher are absent in this film.
• The story's climax resolves in a direct homage to A Christmas Carol, with the Narrator speaking to Rabbit about his poor behavior and showing him a dark future in which Rabbit lives alone in the Hundred Acre Wood. The similarity is noted by Tigger in when he asks Rabbit, "What the Dickens-and I do mean 'Dickens'-is going on here?", during which he turns and winks at the audience.

[edit] External Links

• Winnie The Pooh: Springtime With Roo at the Big Cartoon DataBase

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