''Springtime with Roo'' (also known as ''Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo'') is a 2004 American animated

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produced for

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, and animated by Toon City Animation in

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. The film features the characters from

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's '' Winnie the Pooh'' franchise, based on the original characters from the books by

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and

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. The story is loosely based on

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' 1843 novella ''

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''. Unlike the previous ''Winnie the Pooh'' direct-to-video films ''

A Very Merry Pooh Year ''A Very Merry Pooh Year'' (also known as ''Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year'') is a 2002 American direct-to-video Christmas animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The film features the 1991 Christmas televisi ...

'' and '' Seasons of Giving'', ''Springtime with Roo'' does not reuse any episodes from ''

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ''The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Based on the ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' books by authors A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, ''The New Adventures'' was the ...

''.

Plot

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day in the

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, Roo and his friends Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and

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visit

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's house, where they expect to celebrate Easter. Upon arrival, the friends discover that Rabbit has replaced the Easter celebration with a " Spring Cleaning" Day. The group are tasked with cleaning Rabbit's house and while doing so, Pooh inhales dust and sneezes violently, with the impact knocking down a box containing all of Rabbit's Easter ornaments. Assuming that Rabbit had simply forgotten about Easter, the gang decide to surprise Rabbit by decorating his house with the ornaments, but once Rabbit discovers this, he angrily kicks everyone out of his home for disobeying his orders. Seeing Roo saddened over the events, Tigger returns to Rabbit's house to try reasoning with him. When Rabbit denies ever liking Easter, Tigger and the Narrator take Rabbit back through the book to last Easter's celebration, which was sometime after Kanga and Roo had moved to the Hundred Acre Wood. During that time, Rabbit insisted on having an organized Easter party, treating it more like a professional occasion rather than a fun holiday; this controlling behavior annoyed everyone to the point that Tigger led the group into sneaking away to celebrate Easter without Rabbit, leaving the latter feeling left out. Realizing how his actions upset Rabbit, Tigger tries to apologize for his unintentional negligence, but Rabbit, still upset about the past, refuses to forgive his friends. Back in the present, Tigger informs his friends of the reason for Rabbit's unhappiness, prompting them to think of a way to make it up to him. Meanwhile, Rabbit also returns to the present, but the Narrator purposefully stops on the wrong page, where Rabbit finds Kanga and Roo's house and overhears Roo stating his wish to cheer Rabbit up. When this fails to convince Rabbit, the Narrator (whom wakes him up with a spooky voice) transports him to the unwritten pages of the book (the future of the Hundred Acre Wood), where Rabbit discovers that while his Spring Cleaning Day celebration has been perfectly organized as planned, everyone in the wood has moved away due to his bossy behavior, much to his horror as he discovers his friends' houses are empty and abandon. Rabbit soon wakes up the next morning to realize that the events were just a dream and that he still has a chance to change the future. Meanwhile, Roo, unaware of Rabbit's change of heart, rallies Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore to surprise Rabbit with a new party, when Rabbit arrives at Roo's house to reveal that he has prepared a bigger and better Easter celebration, thrilling everyone as they all participate in the festivities.

Voice cast

* Jimmy Bennett as Roo *

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as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger *

John Fiedler John Donald Fiedler (February 3, 1925 – June 25, 2005) was an American actor. Recognizable for his high, flutey voice, Fiedler's career lasted more than 55 years in stage, film, television and radio. Fiedler was typecast beginning ear ...

as Piglet **

Jeff Bennett Jeff Bennett (born October 2, 1962) is an American voice actor. He voiced the titular character of ''Johnny Bravo'', Dexter and Dee Dee's Dad in ''Dexter's Laboratory'', List of The Powerpuff Girls characters#Ace, Ace, List of The Powerpuff Gi ...

as Piglet's singing voice *

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Ken Sansom Frank Kenneth Sansom (April 2, 1927 – October 8, 2012) was an American actor. Among his best known roles, Sansom voiced Rabbit (Winnie-the-Pooh)#Disney adaptations, Rabbit in animated television series, television specials, and films for Disney ...

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as Kanga *

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as The Narrator

Production

The film was produced by

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, and its animation was outsourced to

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Manila Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the Capital of the Philippines, capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City, with a population of 1,846,513 people in 2020. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on ...

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Home media

The film was released on direct-to-DVD and direct-to-VHS on March 9, 2004. It included the theatrical trailer for '' Pooh's Heffalump Movie'' and two episodes from ''

'' ("Honey for a Bunny" and "Trap as Trap Can"). The film was later released on Blu-ray on March 11, 2014 (for the 10th anniversary of the film) as the Hippity-Hoppity Roo edition. The film is a part of Disney Movies Anywhere program.

Songs

References

External links

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