The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Family · Animation · Music · 1968
Winnie the Pooh and his friends experience high winds, heavy rains, and a flood in Hundred Acre Wood.
Movie details
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
“Hip hip Poohray!”
1968 Family · Animation · Music 25m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
7.3 / 10
Community rating
Winnie the Pooh and his friends experience high winds, heavy rains, and a flood in Hundred Acre Wood.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Wolfgang Reitherman
Written by
Larry Clemmons · Vance Gerry · Julius Svendsen · Ralph Wright
Sterling Holloway
Winnie the Pooh (voice)
John Fiedler
Piglet (voice)
Paul Winchell
Tigger (voice)
Hal Smith
Owl (voice)
Jon Walmsley
Chistopher Robin (voice)
R
Ralph Wright
Eeyore (voice)
Sebastian Cabot
Narrator (voice)
Court is in session
Put Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.