When the group determines Christopher Robin to have been the source of the initial gift pot, they decide to give him something special, staging a living Valentine directed by Rabbit and featuring Piglet as Cupid. This starts a cycle of Valentine gift-giving which soon has everyone breaking Rabbit's order and stuffing cards into Pooh's mailbox disguise. Believing it to be a gift from his best friend, Pooh sets out to thank Piglet with a present of his own. Then, Pooh receives an anonymous pot of honey. Since Pooh went overboard with Valentine cards last year, Rabbit gets everyone to agree not to observe Valentine's Day this year. Forgettable and forced, they are greatly distanced from the Sherman Brothers' exemplary contributions to the classic Pooh tales.įar more charming is 'Un-Valentine's Day' (21:28). But if that establishes a link to Pooh's past at Disney, Michael and Patty Silversher's weak three original songs sever it. The program opens in a live-action bedroom of Christopher Robin, a now-routine device that as far as I can tell hadn't been used in over 15 years at the time. The characters don't do much to feel like themselves, rendering this special short on the warmth that is central to A.A. The plot is threadbare and efforts to give it meaning only underscore the disconnect between Valentine's Day's loverly themes and Pooh's innocent universe. This is a far cry from Disney's best Winnie the Pooh stories. a lightning bug) and let it bite Christopher Robin to undo the first bite and restore the boy to his usual self. They decide the only thing they can do is catch a love bug (i.e. Owl's explanation, that Christopher Robin has been 'bitten by a Smitten', does little to ease the gang's fears. On the eve of Valentine's Day, they look for him and find him working on a Valentine for a girl named Winifred. Winnie the Pooh and his fellow Hundred Acre Wood residents are concerned they haven't seen much of Christopher Robin lately. Like much of Disney's Pooh canon (especially the lazier and more recent works), A Valentine For You (22:07) hedges on a misunderstanding. The other major component, 1989's 'Un-Valentine's Day', is simply the first Season 2 episode of 'The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the Daytime Emmy-winning Saturday morning fixture. The title attraction, A Valentine For You, debuted on ABC as a special in 1999. As Christmas trees stand decorated and stockings still hang, your gut reaction to the timing may be one of puzzlement, but early January is actually the studios' usual window for introducing Valentine's fare as retailers swiftly transition from one year's last and biggest holiday to the next's first and typically third largest.įound here are two half-hour cartoons, which were billed as a 'double feature' on their previous DVD, issued January 2004. With next week's new Special Edition DVD release of Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You. Single-sided, single-layered disc (DVD-5) / White Keepcase with Embossed Cardboard SlipcoverĮfforts to refamiliarize the public with Disney's traditionally-animated Winnie the Pooh continue Special Debut: Febru/ Episode Airdates: September 9-30, 1989ĭVD Release Date: Janu/ Suggested Retail Price: $29.99 Subtitles: English for Hearing Impaired, French, Spanish Closed Captionedīonus Episode Captioned, Subtitled in English and Dubbed in French, Spanish Songs: 'Winnie the Pooh', 'Girls are Like Boys', 'When the Love Bug Bites', 'Places in the Heart'ġ.33:1 Fullscreen (Original Aspect Ratio), Dolby Stereo 2.0 (English, French, Spanish) Voice Cast: Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh), Paul Winchell (Tigger), John Fiedler (Piglet), Ken Sansom (Rabbit), Brady Bluhm (Christopher Robin), Peter Cullen (Eeyore), Michael Gough (Gopher), André Stojka (Owl), David Warner (Narrator), Hal Smith (Owl), Patty Parris (Kanga), Tim Hoskins (Christopher Robin), Nicholas Melody (Roo), Steven Schatzberg (Piglet - singing), Frankie J. Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You / Un-Valentine's Dayĭirectors: Keith Ingham, Terence Harrison / Producers: Keith Ingham, Ken Kessel, Ed Ghertner / Writers: Carter Crocker, Mark Zaslove, Stephen Sustaric, Jymn Magon A.A.

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