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

The short length is a blessing. You ever take a little kid to the movies? Lots of movies today are bloated and overlong, I'd rather have a film with great quality that keeps a child's interest than something that has them crying before the end.
 
Two Things you need to know:
1. Disney has confidents that Winnie the Pooh will do great in the Box Office (#2 in the box office for that weekend, #1 Do I need to tell you?).
2. With the Smurfs bad reviews, alot of people will see this movie (I think the Smurfs will do fare better between the 2).:cool:
 
For the record, Cars is two and a half hours long, and every little boy in America between the ages of two and eight seems to love it. I've spoken to parents who tell me their kids watch it two to three times a day. So evidently, length isn't always a factor. Maybe Winnie the Pooh will just feel longer as a result of being five stories compiled together.
 
A couple more things you need to know: with Harry Potter being PG-13, some parents may be concerned about having their younger kids watch the final film in that series and instead take their kids to see this film.
 
It gets worse. This is a quite form a review form the Daily Mirror:



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On the other hand, it's kind of funny how the most reent Transformers film is mostly criticzed for being too long, then this is mostly criticized for being too short.

Supposedly, by the way, the movie's budget is only reported to be $50 million, which is $55 million less than the budget for The Princess and the Frog.
 
^I've heard several different figures, mostly that the film is about an hour long with ten minutes more taken up by the opening and closing credits. Frankly, I'm not sure anyone had a stop watch in the theater, but that's the most common figure I've read.
 
So, has this been advertised? At all? There was that one great trailer in front of Tangled, but that seems to be it. A lot of people who've told me they want to see the movie didn't even know it was coming out until they saw some articles about it online recently. Seems strangely underpromoted for a Disney film.
 
Maybe they're banking on keeping the budget cheap by not having many advertising spots around, and letting word of mouth do it's job?

It seems like a film that would get a lot of word of mouth and end up having many adults who grew up with the original Winnie the Pooh movie to see it.
 
I've seen a few ads here and there. But I still thinks this movie isn't being heavily promoted.
You'd think they'd try harder to sell a movie giving how Winnie-the-Pooh is usually viewed as preschool fodder. Not to mention it's going up against the last Harry Potter movie.
 
Where exactly are you guys looking for the ads? They have them running after all the pre-school stuff on my Comcast on-demand, and I'm going to bet a nickel that there's a bunch of it during the Disney Jr. block. I don't really think Disney is trying to sell this to interested adults or to older kids. I'd expect to see the advertising on Nick Jr, Disney Jr, and Sprout.

I also suspect that Disney is going cheaper on the promotion for this one. My guess is that since they push enough Pooh merchandise without any advertising at all, they can push the movie out there and people will show up.
 
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