History WesternAnimation / PoohsGrandAdventure

* SoundtrackDissonance: Even with the film's darker, more mature tone and scope, the credits version of "Wherever You Are" wouldn't sound out of place at the end of a drama like fellow 90's film ''Film/Ghost1990''.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Pooh, though Rabbit is TheLeader. Pooh is the one who provides the original reason for the quest and it's the most personal for him due to being Christopher Robin's "best best" friend.
** TheLancer: Tigger, who is a foil to Rabbit.
** TheBigGuy: Eeyore, and Tigger in the climax. Tigger's physical strength is what the group needs in the climax, and Eeyore himself is the largest and heaviest of the group, and at least can carry them around due to being the only quadruped.
** TheSmartGuy: Rabbit, who in a unique example of this trope is also TheLeader of the group thanks to his brains.
** TheHeart: Piglet, the group's emotional core.

* TheTeam:
** TheHero: Pooh, though Rabbit is TheLeader. Pooh is the one who provides the original reason for the quest and it's the most personal for him due to being Christopher Robin's "best best" friend.
** TheLancer: Tigger, who is a foil to Rabbit.
** TheBigGuy: Eeyore, and Tigger in the climax. Tigger's physical strength is what the group needs in the climax, and Eeyore himself is the largest and heaviest of the group, and at least can carry them around due to being the only quadruped.
** TheSmartGuy: Rabbit, who in a unique example of this trope is also TheLeader of the group thanks to his brains.
** TheHeart: Piglet.

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/TheHouseAtPoohCorner'', 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''.

* SkeletonMotif: After the gang deciphers Christopher Robin's letter, they become convinced that he's been kidnapped by a monstrous "Skullosaurus" and taken away to a place known as "the Skull". This is represented by a giant skull symbol on Owl's map, and turns out to be a cave bearing a suspicious resemblance to a cranium once the gang actually gets there. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that they had just misread a message saying Christopher Robin was off to ''school'', and their fear made the cave appear a lot more monstrous than it really was.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Apparently when school starts, autumn immediately begins, and the leaves instantly change color and start to drop. In many real-life cases, public schools usually start anywhere from mid-August to mid-September, when it's still technically summer and the leaves are still green (for the most part.) Zigzagged with Great Britain (the country of origin for the original book series), where the autumn term typically begins in September, quite some time after midsummer has passed and when trees may just be starting to turn to their autumn colours.

** Basically how the whole point of the film is set up. Owl believes Christopher Robin has gone to "Skull" when really the audience knows he's clearly spelling "School".

** Pooh's honey pot is a physical representation of his initial belief that he is apart from Christopher Robin completely when they are not physically together. He clings to it throughout the movie, and even sadly looks into his reflection in the honey inside during "Wherever You Are". When he finally realizes that Christopher is always with him, he takes one last look into the pot to realize the truth, and ultimately abandons the pot forever when Christopher Robin rescues him from the pit.

* GenreBlind: The main gang, as illustrated by this quotation:
--> '''Pooh''': Perhaps we should... [[LetsSplitUpGang split up?]]\\
'''Rabbit''': [[GenreBlind Why Pooh Bear! I believe that's a very smart idea!]]

* ManEatngPlant: While fleeing the Skullasaurus, the party gets lost in a maze of thorny vines bearing large, toothy maws. After finding Christopher Robin, [[spoiler:it's shown that [[OnceMoreWithClarity this was merely a large cluster of brambles]], which the gang had mistaken for monstrous plants in their fear and confusion]].

* [[Irony/WesternAnimation Situational Irony:]]
** While also a case of foreshadowing, Rabbit and the gang thinking that they see the Skullasaurus at one point has an ironic nature to it since [[spoiler: even though it is actually Pooh's reflection, who's rumbling stomach is what they are actually afraid of, this actually scares Pooh who thinks there actually is a Skullasaurus.]]

** TheHero: Pooh, though Rabbit is TheLeader.

** TheBigGuy: Eeyore, and Tigger in the climax.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Happens pretty much whenever a character hears [[BigBad the Skullasaurus.]]

** The cover for the VHS and DVD, showing Pooh and friends happily setting off on their adventure, doesn't convey that this is a DarkerAndEdgier film. The back covers, on the other hand, feature artwork that's considerably more solemn (see the page image for the VHS back cover) and foreboding (the gang of friends looking into the distance for the 2006 DVD), more appropriate to the film's tone.

* 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]]. Fortunately, it all gets better once Christopher Robin arrives.

->"''You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.''"

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true."'']]

* TheHedgeOfThorns: Rabbit leads the party through a maze of thorns while trying to flee from the Skullasaurus.

* MetaGuy: Owl knows all about the various perils of an epic fantasy quest, and thus is the one who sends the gang out on their journey. [[spoiler: Once the gang overcomes their fears, they find that all the things he dreamt up as part of their quest were all false, and they dissolve alongside the conflict of the film.]]

* ThisIsReality:
** The grand adventure [[spoiler: doesn't stop Christopher Robin from having to go to school and not see them as much anymore]].
** Rabbit nails it on the head when the gang hesitates to enter Skull, citing that they don't know what they'll find.
-->(''after hearing the Skullasaurus roar again'')
-->'''Eeyore''': But we know what's gonna find us!

->''"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…"''
-->-- '''Opening Narration'''

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''.

* ManualMisprint: The VHS version uses the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection logo.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Even with the film's darker, more mature tone and scope, the credits version of "Wherever You Are" wouldn't sound out of place at the end of a drama like fellow 90's film ''Film/{{Ghost}}''.

* AbsenteeActor: Kanga, Roo, and Gopher are nowhere to be seen in this film.

** Some fans at the least consider the film to be the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', given the fact it had the same animation and story crew (and therefore the same animation and art style), the same voice cast (except for Owl and Christopher Robin), and that it was the first ''Disney'' Winnie the Pooh adaptation made since said show ended.

** A more visual example: When Pooh first sees Skull Cave in the distance and they go to sleep there, the inside of the cave is normal and generic, but becomes more scary and dangerous once the gang realizes they spent the night there the following day. This is a clue to that [[YourMindMakesItReal the cave is not as scary as it appears to be.]]

** The Blu-Ray cover falls guilty of this by boasting a barely-modified version of a poster for ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011''[[note]]the same poster shown on that page, albeit with Christopher Robin and the raft pasted underneath the bridge[[/note]], complete with the otherwise-absent Kanga and Roo.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: After the scene where everyone, minus Pooh, runs away from the distorted gigantic image of him, Pooh back up in fear towards a long, long slippery rockslide, screaming all the way down, ending in him getting stuck in a wall of crystal until almost the end of the film.