"Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore" is a 24-minute cartoon from over 30 years ago and the most known work by director Rob Reinert, if you don't count his minor contribution to "Mrs. Doubtfire". The Winnie Pooh cartoons got quite a bit of awards recognition, but this one here not really. And I think that's fine. The story is basically as follow: Eeyore has a clash with Tigger on his birthday and is even more depressed as usual. Pooh, Christopher Robin and the gang do their best to cheer him up and they have a birthday celebration. Tigger and Eeyore make up again. In terms of the story, this was maybe enough material for a third of the 24 minutes runtime. The rest was just filler stuff and neither memorable nor entertaining nor anything we have not seen in other Winnie the Pooh films already. As with these, it is again the case that the focus is on one of Pooh's friends. And, as in other WtP films, we hear the narrator interact with the characters at one point. I like Eeyore and it's a shame that he does not have a better movie dedicated to him. Not recommended.
