History WesternAnimation / PoohsGrandAdventure

* {{Mondegreen}}: Pooh keeps mishearing Christopher Robin's advice due to having very little brain, and comes out as strange suggestions such as "Braver than a bee," "Longer than a tree," "Taller than a goose," "Bolder when you're not green," or "Smarter when you're pink." He only remembers it completely once trapped down in Skull Cave alone.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This film is a darker and edgier take on Pooh and friends, with some parts verging on downright scary as the characters leave the sanctuary of the Hundred-Acre-Wood and face perils of the outside world. The atmosphere is a lot heavier than any Pooh story to come before it, there's a lot of Paranoia Fuel, and the biggest threats to the characters turns out to be their own egos and vices. The film also sees the characters respond to what they believe is genuine death in a very mature way. Furthermore, it's an absolute TearJerker at some parts, even for a Disney film. Even the ''prologue'' is an ominous sign of things to come. We see a butterfly following a peaceful, meandering stream, only for the butterfly to react in shock when it sees the stream [[AStormIsComing flow into a darker, scarier part of the river]].

Christopher Robin spends the "last day of a golden summer" with his best friend, Winnie the Pooh, all the while keeping a secret from him. He leaves Pooh with some cryptic advice: "You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think... Even when we're apart, I'll always be with you."

->''"Once, upon the last day of a golden summer, there was a boy... and a bear. The boy, who we shall meet in a moment, was called Christopher Robin. The bear was called [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh]]. And together, they had many grand adventures in a remarkable place called the Hundred Acre Wood. But the grandest and most extraordinary of all those adventures was still to begin..."''

When Pooh wakes the next day (on the first day of autumn) he discovers a note from Christopher Robin attached to a pot of honey. Pooh collects [[TrueCompanions the gang]] and they all go to [[EccentricMentor Owl]] to decipher the message, which had been splattered with honey and rendered illegible. Owl informs them that Christopher Robin has been taken to a horrible place called ''the Skull'' by the monstrous Skullasaurus. Owl equips the gang with a map and they set off on a treacherous quest to save their friend. Thus, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Rabbit end up facing numerous horrors and perils in the outside world beyond the sanctuary of the Hundred Acre Wood - not just from around them, but even from within...

* BreakTheHaughty: Rabbit and Tigger are big victims of this as the story progresses. After Rabbit takes over Pooh as a leader to carry the map to find Christopher Robin after he grows frustrated at the former, his ego begins to inflate to a high level when they reach the mountainous regions when he sings the song, "If It Says So" which claims the map is the right answer to find the boy and it takes him a few minutes to deflate when he accidentally tears the map in half after it got snagged on the branch and blown away. Tigger, on the other hand, is boastful about his tail being powerful enough to help him bounce as he helps get the remaining part of the map which lands him on the log in the ravine as a bridge which he ends up breaking it making him realize his tail is weak and quickly breaks down as the log quickly shatters nearly killing him as he fells into the ravine.

* RealityEnsues:

** Tigger tears into some honey, but remembers from ''The Blustery Day'' that "Tiggers don't like hunny!"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The most obvious examples can be found in FatalFlaw above, but a more subtle one can be found while the troupe are traveling through [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Skull]]: at one point, they encounter a giant wall of crystals that distorts Pooh's image so much that they mistake it for the [[BigBad Skullasaurus]], hinting at the monster's true nature ([[spoiler:its [[HellIsThatNoise hellish]] call is actually Pooh's stomach growling]]) and that everything isn't quite as it seems.

* NothingIsScarier: None of the characters ever actually ''see'' the Skullasaurus ([[spoiler:because it doesn't exist]]), but that's part of what makes it so scary to them. In particular, the first encounter with the beast has the group look up in horror as the roars of the Skullasaurus' roars echo through the woods they just emerged from, initially completely devoid of score.
** There's one point where they ''do'' believe they've finally seen it, but it's actually a distortion of Pooh's reflection in the crystals within the Skull cave. [[spoiler: This turns out to be Foreshadowing, as the Skullasaurus' roars they'd been hearing the whole time was actually the sound of Pooh's stomach getting hungrier, so in a sense, Pooh ''was'' the Skullasaurus all along.]]

The movie is loosely based on ''In which Rabbit has a busy day,and we learn what Christopher Robin does in the mornings'' story from [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the original book]], which was also partly adapted for '' [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011 Winnie the Pooh]]''. Some of its settings, as well as the movie's main theme, would later be adapted into ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.

* InsufferableGenius: Subverted; Rabbit is the smartest guy in Pooh's group but isn't aware of it, his "insufferable" part is when he takes over Pooh as the leader earning him Owl's deciphered map to read which he constantly tells everyone to follow it better than his own mind which will bite him psychologically later on but eventually learns from his mistake that even the map is useless and proclaims to use his brain to help everyone work together to 'save' Christopher Robin.

* NoSenseOfDirection: Played for laughs and straight; After Pooh's trusted with the map deciphered by Owl. He and his friends set off to search for Christopher Robin and as they heard the 'Skullasaurus' roar after they passed the woods. Pooh tries to ease the situation when everyone immediately panics by reading the map and pointing in every direction to run away from it together but it's clear that Pooh is illiterate which is his main flaw in being a leader and Rabbit begins to be aware of it, angrily loses patience with him and assumes his unofficial leadership by snatching the map from Pooh.

''Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search For Christopher Robin'', in some countries titled ''Winnie-the-Pooh's Most Grand Adventure'', is a 1997 direct-to-video film in the ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' franchise about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pooh and company searching for Christopher Robin]].

When Pooh wakes the next day (on the first day of autumn) he discovers a note from Christopher Robin attached to a pot of honey. Pooh collects [[TrueCompanions the gang]] and they all go to [[EccentricMentor Owl]] to decipher the message, which had been splattered with honey and rendered illegible. Owl informs them that Christopher Robin has been taken to a horrible place called ''the Skull'' by the monstrous Skullasaurus. Owl equips the gang with a map and they set off on a treacherous quest to save their friend. The gang ends up facing numerous horrors and perils in the outside world beyond the sanctuary of the Hundred Acre Wood - not just from around them, but even from within...

''Pooh's Grand Adventure'' is considerably DarkerAndEdgier than past stories in the franchise. Though most previous ''Pooh'' stories would feature moments of drama, this is more drama than most standard ''Pooh'' fare [[note]]Death is even touched on here, even if it's just a DisneyDeath[[/note]]. It's also the first BigDamnMovie of the franchise.

The movie is loosely based on ''In which Rabbit has a busy day,and we learn what Christopher Robin does in the mornings'' story from [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the original book]], which was also partly adapted for WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011. Some of its settings, as well as the movie's main theme, would later be adapted into ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.

* RememberedTooLate: Subverted in that Pooh doesn't remember the lessons he was supposed to tell Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit and that these heroes manage to discover their bravery, strength and wit on their own. Pooh also remembers the lesson that Christopher Robin will always be with him at the climax of the film, even if took a while.

* MonsterDelay: Played with and averted. The cast continuously runs from the monster before it could appear, and when it appears that the Skullasaurus has the heroes cornered it's averted as the suspected shadow of the monster is revealed to be Christopher Robin.

* BatScare: Played straight with Tigger who runs from some bats he finds in Skull while searching for Christopher Robin.
* BewareTheSkullBase: The heroes believe that Christopher Robin has been kidnapped by the fearsome monster called the [[BigBad the Skullasaurus]] and that they have to reach the "Eye of the Skull" in order to succeed, which they interpret to mean that they must journey to the Skull, a skull-shaped rock in a land of grey crags where the Skullasaurus lives and has imprisoned Christopher Robin. In truth, [[spoiler:they just rather drastically misread a letter when he was telling them he had to go to ''school'']].

* EldritchAbomination: Some of the imagery in Owl's song is pretty dark for a Winnie the Pooh movie.
* EldritchLocation: Toned down but noticeable with the world outside the Hundred Acre Wood which gradually becomes sinister and colorless. Played straight with Skull which is an even scarier place especially for characters who haven't experienced anything like this before. It even has spooky vapors that almost appear to have moaning faces in them.