The Tigger Movie

In 2000, Disney would release the first theatrical Winnie the Pooh film to not be a collection of shorts as well as not centered around the bear. The Tigger Movie was also the first Disney movie to feature music by the Sherman Brothers since Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Starring all the regular voice actors, the film did moderately well at the box office.

The film centers on Tigger who feels lonely about being “the only one” and decides to search for his family.

Simple concept for a film that centers on what previously was a side character. Usually, Tigger loves being the only one of his kind around. But when he doesn’t have anyone to bounce with, he realizes how alone he really is and wonders what happened to his kind. And most of the film just pushes him down more and more with misunderstandings. He thinks he’s “reading between the lines” with the letter that his “family” is coming, when they’re really not. And when the gang shows up pretending to be them, when he finds out, he won’t let them explain, so he goes off into a blizzard. It makes sense, he believes he’s seeing his family for the first time and is dejected that it wasn’t really them. It’s what makes the main theme of the movie so great when it comes around.

Tigger comes to realize that he may be the only Tigger, but he does have a family in the friends that have stuck by him through everything. And it may seem tacked on, until you realize that they didn’t like seeing Tigger so upset at not having a family, so they orchestrated a letter and then faked being his family. Then they went to go find him in a snowstorm. Everything they do shows how much they care for him.

There’s not much else to say about the film. The music is good and Christopher Robin shows up at the very end of the film, even though he had absolutely no business even being there.

#39, but does cross the Edge of Satisfaction