Winnie the Pooh (film)

Winnie the Pooh is a 2011 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 51st Disney animated feature film, the film was inspired by A. A. Milne's stories of the same name and is part of Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise, the fifth theatrical Winnie the Pooh film released and the second theatrical Winnie the Pooh feature after the 1977 film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It is also, to date, Disney's last animated film using traditional animation. Jim Cummings and Travis Oates reprise their character voice roles as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger and Piglet, while newcomers Tom Kenny, Craig Ferguson, Bud Luckey and Kristen Anderson-Lopez provide the voices of Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore and Kanga, respectively. In the film, the aforementioned residents of the Hundred Acre Wood embark on a quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit while Pooh deals with a hunger for honey. The film is directed by Stephen Anderson and Don Hall, adapted from Milne's books by a story team led by Burny Mattinson, produced by Peter Del Vecho, Clark Spencer, John Lasseter and Craig Sost, and narrated by John Cleese.

The film was released on April 14, 2011 in Germany, on April 15, 2011 in the United Kingdom and on July 15, 2011 in the United States. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics but was not commercially successful, having grossed $50.1 million worldwide on a $30 million budget. Production for the film began in September 2009 with John Lasseter announcing that they wanted to create a film that would "transcend generations." The film features six songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, as well as a rendition of the Sherman Brothers' "Winnie the Pooh" theme song by actress/musician Zooey Deschanel.

The film is dedicated to Dan Read, who had worked on Disney animated films including The Emperor's New Groove and Chicken Little (film), and died on May 25, 2010. This was also the first and only Disney film role of Huell Howser, who voices the Backson in the epilogue.