Not content with an easter egg at the end, although it has that, Winnie the Pooh has dozens of little bits of business all through the end credits. You can sit and watch the characters playing on and around the scrolling names and titles through the whole thing.
In the credits, you’ll see the names of all the babies that were born to the crew/team during the making of the movie. That’s certainly a change from credits when I was young.
The new movie doesn’t strictly follow the style of the old ones. The pace is slightly faster. The music has more of a beat. The characters are slightly more cartoony. The script is slightly less endearing on one hand, but definitely funnier on the other. It was worth the trip and the roomies and I didn’t even try to find a child to bring along as an excuse.
We had been warned to stay for the credits, so I saw them sitting down instead of standing up in the aisle. The credits are worth staying for.
I’ve seen “Production Babies” listed in movie credits (especially Disney and animated films) for well over a decade.
I agree that Disney often puts some pretty neat stuff in its closing credits. I admit to being a closing-credit watcher. Sometimes they stick an extra scene in at the end, as with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Slight hijack: I love watching end credits on US-made movies in particular because the people’s names are so fantastically diverse. Makes me feel proud for some unexplained reason.
Game with self or friends: Just before the credits start rolling, arbitrarily pick one or more ethnic/linguistic categories for last names and see how many of them you can fill from the credits list.
E.g., “Dutch, Greek, Korean, Scots, French, go!”… “Sam Papakoulos!”… “Helen Yoong Kim!”… “Peter Vanderpol!”… and so on.
It’s astonishing how hard it is to come up with a general regional-names category that you can’t find an example of in the ending credits of the average Hollywood movie, particularly animated/CGI ones that list lots and lots of special-effects contributors.
The only categories we routinely come up short on are sub-Saharan African (South African musicians in soundtracks have saved my bacon more than once!), Finnish, and a couple others I can’t think of now. If we made the non-EuroAmerican name categories more regionally specific, of course, I’m sure the game would get harder.
Kimstu, that reminds me of a game two of my kids used to play with credits. They were sort of competative, and they both have very common first names. So they’d each count everyone with a matching first names and see who got the highest number.
Not nearly as high-minded, but hey, they were kids.
High minded? How about absolute DORKs? Talk about your average NERD… Come On! Were talking GEEKs here…
Take it from me, you can call a dork a dork and a nerd a nerd… We geeks do not care if were called geeks… Because were smarter than you and we know it… Anyway… High-minded? Really now? Thats a first