Piglets Big Movie

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Piglet's Big Movie is a 2003 American animated musical comedy-drama adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and animated by Walt Disney Animation (Japan). It was released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 21, 2003. The film is based upon the characters in the Winnie-the-Pooh books written by A. A. Milne. It is the second in a recent series of theatrically released Winnie the Pooh films, preceded by The Tigger Movie (2000) and followed by Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005). In the film, Piglet is ashamed of being small and wanders off into the Hundred Acre Woods, leading his friends to form a search party to find him.

The movie scene of Piglet's Big Movie 2003, in a snowy season has wooden fence with snow pile on top of it and tree branches, from left, Piglet is serious, sitting on the fence while holding on Winnie’s green scarf, has round pointy pink ears, wearing a blue long sleeve, at the right, Winnie the Pooh is serious, sitting down on the fence, looking down, with left eye closed, right hand under his left arm, left arm on top of his head, has round ears and yellow skin, wearing a red shirt and a green scarf.

The three flashback sequences are the first based on the original A.A. Milne stories since The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. The stories are modified to make Piglet the hero, to include Tigger and to conform to Disney versions of the characters, but retain much of Milne's original plot. Besides the Carly Simon songs, Sherman Brothers music is also featured.

The movie scene of Piglet's Big Movie 2003, In a room with green curtains around a large window on the left has bottles, cups with brushes and a table with a book on top, at the back is Tiger hiding his head in a bush and his body in a trunk with his tail showing, has orange skin and black pattern, in front, Piglet is smiling, sitting on a wooden chair, painting with his right hand, has round pointy pink ears and pink body.

Plot

The movie scene of Piglet's Big Movie 2003, In a land with grass and trunk at the back with a red ladybug, from left, Piglet is sitting, leaning back to the trunk, right hand on his knee, left hand reaching the nut from Squirrel, has round Pointy ears, and pink body, in the middle, a Squirrel is happy, holding a acorn nut, has brown skin with whiskers and large tail, at the right, A bird is smiling, standing at the tail of Squirrel has orange and yellow body.

Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger, and Pooh are working on a plan to get honey from a beehive. Piglet wants to help, but his friends tell him he is too small. When the plan goes awry, Piglet saves the day by trapping the bees in a decoy hive; but nobody notices what Piglet has done. Feeling ignored and unappreciated, Piglet sadly wanders away.

The movie scene of Piglet's Big Movie 2003, In a wooden room, Tigger is happy, standing showing a drawing of him where he and piglet are dancing wearing a green green grass skirt, with a blue note at the top, with his both hands, has round ears, orange skin with black pattern.

Piglet's friends realize he is missing, so they search for him by using a scrapbook Piglet has made of their past adventures as a guide. On the way to Kanga's house, they reminisce about when Kanga and Roo arrived in the Hundred Acre Wood. Everyone is afraid of the newcomers and Rabbit concocts a plan to use Piglet as a decoy so they could kidnap Roo. Kanga pretends to believe Piglet is Roo and gives him a dose of fish oil and a bath. She gives him a cookie afterwards and Piglet realizes she is actually very nice. Roo and Rabbit have become friends and everyone agrees Kanga and Roo should stay.

The movie scene of Piglet's Big Movie 2003 In a forest with grass land, trees, bushes and a trunk at the left, from left Squirrel is standing holding a acorn nut, has brown skin wearing a brown hat, 2nd from left, Piglet is smiling, walking, has round pointy pink ears, and pink body, 3rd from left is a Bird Flying has brown and yellow body.

Back in the present, Roo joins the search party and they head to the next destination in the scrapbook: the North Pole. They remember the story of the expedition to find the Pole. Partway through the expedition, Roo falls into the river. Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore try to save him but to no avail. Piglet uses a very long stick to catapult Roo out of the river and hands it off to Pooh as he runs to try and catch Roo. Christopher Robin arrives on the scene, sees Pooh holding the stick, and declares Pooh has discovered the North Pole; Piglet's role in both Roo's rescue and the Pole's discovery went unacknowledged.

The movie scene of Piglet's Big Movie 2003, In a forest with grass land, trees and bushes, from left Winnie the Pooh is smiling, walking, holding a cookie with his right arm has round ears yellow and skin wearing a red shirt, 2nd from left, Roo is smiling, sitting at the back of Eeyore, holding a brown book, has large ears and tail wearing a blue long sleeve, 3rd from left, Eeyore is serious, has long gray ears, black hair and gray body, at the right, Rabbit is serious, walking, has long ears, yellow skin and brown nose.

Back in the present, Piglet's friends express their regrets for not celebrating Piglet's heroism. They become increasingly worried as a storm rolls in; to reassure Roo, Eeyore and Pooh tell him about the time Piglet built a house for Eeyore. Piglet has pointed out to Pooh Eeyore did not have a house to keep him warm. Pooh decides they should build Eeyore a house on that very spot, which he names "Pooh Corner." Pooh briefly considers calling it "Pooh and Piglet Corner" before deciding "Pooh Corner" sounds nicer. Tigger joins Pooh in trying to build the house while Piglet struggles to keep up; eventually, Pooh and Tigger give up. Then they learn Eeyore has already built himself a house out of sticks, though it has gone missing. Pooh and Tigger realize they are using Eeyore's old house to build Eeyore's new house. As they struggle to explain, Piglet arrives and leads them back to Eeyore's newly completed house. Once again, Piglet's contributions are overlooked as the wind gets the credit for moving Eeyore's house.

The movie scene of Piglet's Big Movie 2003, In a forest with grass land, trees and bushes, from left, Eeyore is serious, looking at the book, has long gray body and black hair, 2nd from left, Winnie the Pooh is smiling, standing, looking at the book, has round ears and orange yellow skin, wearing a red shirt, 3rd from left, Rabbit is confused, looking up standing while holding the brown book, has long ears and yellow skin, at the right, Tiger is smiling, standing while looking at the book and holding it with his left hand, has round ears and orange body with black pattern.

As the rain begins to fall, Tigger wants to skip to the end of the book to find where Piglet is, but Rabbit insists they go through it in order; they begin fighting over the book, which falls in the river. The friends sadly return to Piglet's house to keep Roo from catching a cold. They draw new pictures of Piglet, then set out to look for him again. They find the scrapbook bindings, suspended on a hollow log, overhanging a raging waterfall; Pooh goes to retrieve it, but falls into a hole in the log.

The movie scene of Piglet's Big Movie 2003, In a wooden room with a drawing on the wall and a couch at the right and a drawing of Piglets at the ground, from left, Piglet is smiling, standing, holding the hands of Winnie the pooh, has round pointy ear and pink skin, at the right, Winnie The Pooh is smiling, standing holding with his left hand with Piglet, right hand up open, has round ears and yellow skin, wearing a red shirt.

Pooh's friends form themselves into a rescue rope, but it is not quite long enough and Pooh is stuck hanging precariously over the waterfall. Piglet appears and pulls Pooh to safety, but the log begins to break, which knocks Piglet's scrapbook into the river below. Rabbit, Eeyore, Tigger, and Roo all make it to solid ground, just in time to see half of the log plummet to the water below. Tigger, Rabbit, Roo and Eeyore begin to mourn for their apparent loss and almost fail to notice Pooh and Piglet emerging from inside of the other half of the log. Piglet's friends take him home and show him the drawings they have made of him, demonstrating their appreciation for everything Piglet has done. They have a party and Pooh shows Piglet the new sign for the renamed "Pooh and Piglet Corner."

Cast

John Fiedler as Piglet

Jim Cummings as Pooh and Tigger

Ken Sansom as Rabbit

Nikita Hopkins as Roo

Kath Soucie as Kanga and Christopher Robin (singing voice)

Peter Cullen as Eeyore

Andre Stojka as Owl

Tom Wheatley as Christopher Robin

Roy Dotrice as the Narrator

Songs

American singer-songwriter Carly Simon wrote seven new songs exclusively for the film, and performed six of them, as well as recording her own version of the classic Winnie The Pooh theme song.

"The More It Snows (Tiddely-Pom)" features Jim Cummings and John Fiedler, as Pooh and Piglet. Simon was accompanied by her children Ben Taylor and Sally Taylor on many of the songs. Renée Fleming accompanied Simon on the song "Comforting to Know". On "Sing Ho, for the Life of a Bear (Expotition March)" Simon was accompanied by Kath Soucie and Jim Cummings.

The soundtrack also features five tracks of the film's score by Carl Johnson, as well as five of Simon's original demos.

Track listing

"Winnie the Pooh" - Carly Simon featuring Ben Taylor
"If I Wasn't So Small (The Piglet Song)" - Carly Simon
"Mother's Intuition" - Carly Simon
"Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear (Expotition March)" - Carly Simon featuring Kath Soucie and Jim Cummings
"The More It Snows (Tiddely-Pom)" - Jim Cummings and John Fiedler
"With a Few Good Friends " - Carly Simon featuring Ben Taylor and Sally Taylor
"The More I Look Inside" - Carly Simon
"Comforting to Know" - Carly Simon featuring Renee Fleming
"Scrapbook Pages" - Carl Johnson
"River Roo" - Carl Johnson
"Roo Joins the Quest" - Carl Johnson
"Losing the Scrapbook" - Carl Johnson
"Pooh and Piglet Corner" - Carl Johnson
"Winnie the Pooh (Demo)" - Carly Simon
"If I Wasn't So Small (Demo)" - Carly Simon
"Mother's Intuition (Demo)" - Carly Simon
"The More It Snows (Demo)" - Carly Simon
"The More I Look Inside (Demo)" - Carly Simon

Box office

Piglet's Big Movie was #7 on its opening weekend, earning $6 million. The film domestically grossed $23 million—half the amount of what The Tigger Movie earned.—and $63 million worldwide.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the film received a "Certified Fresh" rating of 71% based on 76 reviews. The site's critical consensus is "Wholesome and charming entertainment for young children." Film critic Stephen Holden of New York Times called the film an "oasis of gentleness and wit." Nancy Churnin of The Dallas Morning News stated that Piglet's Big Movie was "one of the nifty pleasures in the process", despite her belief that "Disney may be milking its classics."

Games

In 2003 Disney released Piglet's Big Game for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance as well as a CD-ROM game which was also entitled Piglet's Big Game. The latter is developed by Doki Denki Studio and involves helping Piglet assist in the preparation for a "Very Large Soup Party." In their review, Edutaining Kids praised various features including the adventure/exploration aspect (the game is linear instead of using a main screen) and many of the activities (such as the color mixing, which they said offers an incredible variety of hues), but noted that it is much too brief and that Kanga and Roo are absent.

References

Piglet's Big Movie Wikipedia

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