DVD Review: The Tigger Movie: John Hurt, Ken Sansom, Kath Soucie, John Fiedler, Andre Stojka, Peter Cullen, Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Tom Attenborough, Jun Falkenstein: Movies & TV

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DVD Review: The Tigger Movie: John Hurt, Ken Sansom, Kath Soucie, John Fiedler, Andre Stojka, Peter Cullen, Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Tom Attenborough, Jun Falkenstein: Movies & TV

Posted by admin | on 4 August, 04:06 AM

Product Description
Experience a fun-filled celebration of friendship in the beloved Pooh tradition with this special 10th anniversary edition of The Tigger Movie. Share the excitement with all your friends from the Hundred Acre Wood as Tigger sets off on an amazing adventure. He s hoping to find fellow tiggers to play with, and along the way, he ll discover something even more remarkable: the true meaning of family. Featuring original songs by the award-winning Sherman Brothers (Mary Poppins), plus two new-to-DVD Tigger stories, this timeless Pooh classic will bounce its way straight into your heart.

The best Pooh sequel,

By Julie Neal “The Complete Walt Disney World” (Sanibel Island, Fla.) -
(TOP 50 REVIEWER)

“Mostly I’m happy… but now all at once I feel so lonely,” sings a uncharacteristically melancholy Tigger in this year-2000 theatrical film, after his Hundred Acre Wood pals finally reject his manic bouncing behavior. Determined to track down “someone like me,” the irrepressible stuffed tiger has several adventures. He eventually learns that family members come in all shapes and sizes, and not necessarily from the same family tree.

Compared to most Disney sequels “The Tigger Movie” has a lot to offer. It’s sweet, with absolutely no hostility, and no more violence than a few bee stings. The animation is surprisingly good — a hallucinatory revue of history’s greatest Tiggers in references to The Brady Bunch, the “Jackson 5ive” Saturday morning cartoon series, Jerry Springer, The Seven Year Itch, even 1930s Gold Diggers films — while backgrounds often retain the soft watercolor look of the classic Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. For the most part Tigger’s sunny enthusiasm is on full display, as are his absoposilutely twisted takes on the English language. All the other classic Pooh characters appear too, including Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, Roo, even Christopher Robin.

The voice talent is good, though the only voice from the original film is John Fiedler as Piglet. Both Tigger (originally Paul Winchell) and Pooh (originally Sterling Holloway) are voiced by Jim Cummings, recognizable to Playhouse Disney fans as the voice of Pete on the series “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.” The narrator (originally Sebastian Cabot) is voiced here by John Hurt, who portrays Mr. Ollivander in the Harry Potter films as well as Professor Oxley in 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

In short, “The Tigger Movie” is the best of Disney’s Pooh sequels. Preschoolers will especially love it, and though the oddball story line has some obvious plot holes (stuffed animals have birth parents?), parents can sit through at least one viewing with relative ease.

P.S. Want another good Pooh sequel? Check out Pooh’s Heffalump Movie.

P.P.S. Fans of Walt Disney World will want to watch that Tigger revue closely. The band playing at the family reunion is a Tiggerfied version of the Five Bear Rugs, the stars of the Country Bear Jamboree.
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