March 9, 2004
Springtime with Roo (also known as Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo) is a 2004 American animated direct-to-video Easter musical fantasy adventure comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and DisneyToon Studios, and animated by Toon City Animation in Manila, Philippines.
The film features characters from Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise, based on the original characters from the books by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. The story is loosely based on Charles Dickens' classic 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
Unlike the previous Winnie the Pooh direct-to-video films A Very Merry Pooh Year and Seasons of Giving, Springtime with Roo does not reuse any episodes from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Storyline[]
On Easter day in the Hundred Acre Wood, Roo and his friends Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore visit Rabbit'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.
Also See[]
- Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) (Trailers)
- Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) (DVD Promos)
Sound Effects Used[]
- Advantage Audio Fall Sound
- Advantage Audio Siren Whistles
- Advantage Audio Whip Crack
- H-B BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S LITTLE BOING
- H-B PLINK, CARTOON - HIGH PLINK
- H-B SLIDE, CARTOON - LOW SLIDE UP
- Hollywoodedge, Airy Bubbles Wwet Po CRT018601 (Pop only; high pitched)
- Hollywoodedge, Ascending Whistles CRT057901
- Hollywoodedge, Bird Sparrow Singing PE021801
- Hollywoodedge, Bird Vulture Two Very PE021901 (Heard in various pitches.)
- Hollywoodedge, Bounce Boing Drum CRT016901/Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - TIMP DOINK (edited)
- Hollywoodedge, Bounce Jews Harp CRT015802
- Hollywoodedge, Gusts Heavy Cold Wind PE031601/Hollywoodedge, Whistling Wind Stead PE033301
- Hollywoodedge, Jews Harp 9 Various Je AC020101
- Hollywoodedge, Quick Whistle Zip By CRT057501
- Hollywoodedge, Quick Whistle Zip By CRT057502
- Hollywoodedge, Short Bulb Horn Honk CRT020701 (high and normal pitches)
- Hollywoodedge, Various Swishes Imp CRT054301 (Swish only.)
- Hollywoodedge, Violin Gliss Double U AC050501
- Hollywoodedge, Wet Splats Various CRT052303
- Hollywoodedge, Whind Up Toy Click CRT036302
- Hollywoodedge, Whistle Wbulb Horn CRT020801
- Nickelodeon Siren Whistle
- Sound Ideas, BLINK, CARTOON - XYLO EYE BLINKS
- Sound Ideas, BUBBLES, MUD - HEAVY, THICK MUD POT BUBBLES, BOIL
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, BIRD - LIGHT TWITTERING OF BIRDS
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, SQUEAK - SEVERAL RUBBER SQUEAKS, STRETCH
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, SWISH - MANY WHIPPY SWISH BYS (2nd swish; heard in a high pitch.)
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, TEETH - RAPID TEETH CHATTERING
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, WHISTLE - LONG ZIP BY
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, WHISTLE - SLIDE WHISTLE: FAST SLIDE UP, ZIP 03
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, WHISTLE - SLIDE WHISTLE: QUICK ZIP UP
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - TONY'S BASS, DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION
- Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - SINGLE RICOCHET, BULLET 05/Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SLICK RICCO 02
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG HEAD HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - HOLLOW METALLIC HEAD KONK AND HORN
- Sound Ideas, PLUCK, CARTOON - VAROOP
- Sound Ideas, POP, CARTOON - SQUISH POP
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 01
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - BLOP GALLOP, LONG/SHORT
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - WIND WHISTLE SCAT (high pitched)
- Sound Ideas, TEETH, CARTOON - SCOOBY'S TEETH CHATTER, LONG/SHORT (high pitched)
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP OUT, HIGH (very high pitched)
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - SHARP WHISTLE ZIP
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - SHARP ZIP
- WB CARTOON, THUNK - SMALL THUNK (low pitched)