3/10
A Slowly Acquired Taste
28 May 2013
Warning: Spoilers
A Day For Eeyore features only the original voices of Piglet and Tigger, replacing not only the familiar voices of Roo, Rabbit, Kanga, and Christopher Robin, but also the famous Sterling Holloway, the ORIGINAL and renowned voice of Winnie the Pooh. This short centers around the normally gloomy Eeyore, who's birthday has been forgotten by his peers. The storyline lends its attention to more mundane details in what seems to be a forced attempt to capture some of the original wonder and magic found in the first three short films. The animation is significantly inferior to that of the previous in the Winnie the Pooh classic collection and the dialogue is not the pithy banter I've come to recognize in the Winnie the Pooh franchise.

The fourth storybook classic lacks direction and clarity, but is watchable for those who are simply looking for something to entertain the young ones. It should also be noted that the other characters (apart from Eeyore, who is naturally depressed) no longer possess the optimistic and confident qualities of the previous three films.

Overall, I found this movie disappointing, pedantic, and patronizing. However, the bitterness of the aftertaste decreased minutely after each viewing.
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