Winnie The Pooh's recent film's incredibly short length

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Codjl1

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Only slightly under 70 minutes, the most recent Winnie The Pooh film is probably the shortest film to arrive in theatres in quite a long time

For people that have seen it in the UK, it's the main (and only) criticism of the film there. This would be acceptable in direct-to-DVD, but this doesn't seen right.

I'm aware most Disney animated films between the 1930's and 1990's had around the same
length, but times have changed and the shortest films around this time have at least been 10 to 15 minutes longer.
Any thoughts on this?
 
All I can say is that:

  1. This belongs in the Disney Forum
  2. I forgot what the rules are, but the length of the film is too short for it to qualify for Oscar nominations.
 
I think the rules that qualify for a feature length for the Academy Awards is 77 minutes, or that is what I remember reading in the newspapers and publications some years back.
 
I guess better to keep it short then to add 10 to 20 minutes of filler that bogs the film down. It would have been nice if they had an animated short to show before the movie started.
 
A whole lot of old movies have short (barely over and hour) runtimes and are great. That Marx Brother's Duck Soup in around 70 minutes and it's the best comedy film of all time!
 
They do! They'll show the new cartoon The Ballad of Nessie (I also heard about showing an episode of Jake and the Neverland Pirates, but I'm not positive).
 
An article confirming the latter

Wikipedia mentions that "some international screenings" have the latter one. I REALLY hope the U.S. release doesn't have it, because then that would make the entire theatrical release (the release, and not the movie itself) nothing more than a glorified commercial for The Disney Channel (specifically the Playhou...er, "Disney Junior" part of the channel) in its current form. Basically, this is telling the viewers "We'll be starting our feature presesntation in just a minute, but first...we would like to remind you to watch Jake and the Neverland Pirates on Disney Junior!". I'm sorry, but I don't want to go to theatrical release like that. For these reasons among other others, I was going to watch it on day one, but now I'm actually going to wait until it can be confirmed one way or the other whether or not JatNLP is part of the U.S. release. To be clear, I'm willing to watch The Ballad of Nessie, but not the JatNLP episode.

We're supposed to be moving past spur-of-the-moment things like this, and it makes me sad that Disney felt they had to resort to something like this in order to get people (age notwithstanding) interested (in other countries maybe, but still). What's worse is that this is in stark contrast to the movie itself: a return to the style of the original featurettes...
 
That rule was changed last year as it led films that were between 40 to 70 minutes to not fall into either Short, or Feature categories. Winnie is over the minimum 40 minute run-time, so it can be nominated for Best Animated Feature.
 
You shouldn't bother seeing the movie at all then, since one of its purpose is the get people interested in buying Pooh merchandise.

And I hope you didn't see Princess and the Frog or Tangled, since they're helping add to the evils of the Disney Princess toyline.
 
The reason I saw The Princess and the Frog was because Disney had finally "come back" (even though they never really went away); the same reason I hope to be able to watch this new Winnie-The-Pooh movie (I reiterate, my problem has nothing to do with the movie itself since I'm sure it will be a great one, it's this release of it that I'm worried about). I never would have seen the former movie if I thought it was just going to be a medium for advertising the Disney Princess line, which it clearly wasn't. As for Tangled, the reason I didn't watch it had nothing to do with said Disney Princess line. Going back to this movie, because it will be a return to the style of the original featurettes, it's clear to me--at least at this point--that this movie will hardly just be a medium for selling toys of any kind. Otherwise, I wouldn't even bother watching it anyway. I just don't like the possibility that this theatrical release may just be a medium for advertising a show from The Disney Channel's Disney Junior block that I don't agree with.

In any case, we'll find out soon enough what Disney plans to do with the U.S. release of this movie.
 
Basicly what your saying is don't even give these movies a chance based on their own marits or quality but ignore them completly for petty reasons?

Really pretty much every film could be ignored for one petty reason or another so you might as well avoid EVERYTHING while your at it. Wait that would be dumb.



Nothing but then again you have shown to resent things for no good reasons as well like the above quote from you. People don't need good reasons to hate things as you have proven with your "Evils of the Disney Princess" comments that made me laugh hysterically .
 
How do you think this will affect how many theaters it's carried in? On one hand, there's more showtimes; on the other, people wouldn't want to pay the same admission money they could spend on a 2 hour epic.
 
Found out that this movie is coming out the same day as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Deux. Disney really ain't that confident in this film.
 
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