Piglet's Big Movie

DisneyToon Studios produced another Winnie the Pooh theatrical film in early 2003. Centering on Piglet, Piglet’s Big Movie starred John Fiedler, Jim Cummings Nikita Hopkins, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen, Kath Soucie, and Tom Wheatley. Also with more music by Carly Simon. It made $6.2 million.

Adapting three more A. A. Milne stories to make Piglet (Fielder) the hero of them, the characters in the Hundred Acre Wood search for Piglet. In the meantime, they reminisce about all the things Piglet has done. They remember when Kanga (Soucie) moved into the area, an expedition to the North Pole, and the building of the House at Pooh Corner.

This might actually be a good example of a frame story done well. It’s got entirely original sequences with a frame that actually makes a bit of sense.

All the individual stories fit well and are fun to watch. They also contain some amount of character development. At least the first one does. Rabbit reacts to Kanga and Roo moving in as you would expect a white neighborhood to react to a black family moving in during the mid-50s. But it’s after Rabbit spends time with Roo that he takes everything back.

The music is also good, especially with the original works sung by Simon, the only problem is at the very end. When she gets a music video during the first part of the end credits. It takes you out of the film and doesn’t really serve any purpose other than to fill time or look cool. It does, it just seems unnecessary.

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