San Antonio Busy Kids

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. ~ Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner

Oh, dear. It’s so hard to wake up in the morning. And then your tummy rumbles…and what’s a bear to do when all the honey jars are empty?

And so begins the newest tale of Winnie the Pooh — an hour and ten minutes of pure enchantment, complete with falling letters, scary monsters, bouncy Tiggers and even a honey hallucination.

The storyline, animation, colors, voices stay true to what you expect – no computer-generated, modern-day surprises here.  Just a sweet tale of friendship, teamwork, bravery and creativity.

It starts with Eeyore who’s gone and lost his tail. All his friends come up with colorful solutions – none of which work really well. But then the story takes a dark and scary turn when Owl reads a note left by Christopher Robin and proclaims the little boy has been kidnapped by a monster named “Bak-son.”

Now the real fun begins as the stuffed animals of Hundred Acre Woods go on a covert mission to rescue their friend.  It. Is. Awesome. Especially the part where Eeyore ends up with a spring on his butt. I’ll just let you wonder about that part.

I think it should be mandatory for everyone to wake up and read a chapter of Winnie the Pooh every morning. How can you have a bad day that starts off with something as whimsical, happy and kindhearted as the characters that reside in that wonderful, magical forest? But more importantly, I am struck again by just how plain and simple the message is: be a good friend. Help each other. Be brave. And above all – be kind.

It just doesn’t get any better than that.