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Piglet's Big Movie (2003)

Reviewed by Scott Brown | Mar 19, 2003

Scott Brown

Scott Brown writes the Hit List for EW and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Release Date: Mar 21, 2003; Rated: G; Length: 75 Minutes; Genres: Animation, Kids & Family; With: Peter Cullen, James Cummings, John Fiedler and Ken Samson

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Image credit: Piglet's Big Movie: Walt Disney

PEEK-A-POOH Piglet and his friends are snow-bonded in ''Big Movie''

Piglet's Big Movie, like 1977's seminal ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,'' is a collection of shorts, here presented as flashbacks. All three derive from A.A. Milne's original tales, but retain only a smidgen of his droll, easy-chair wit. (Carly Simon's tunes are no substitute for a good narrator -- Sebastian Cabot, you are sorely missed.) The cause for all this reminiscing is a search for the wee porker (voiced by John Fiedler, hamming it up in this role for 35 years now), who has wandered off dejectedly to ponder his feelings of inadequacy. The drama culminates in a literal cliff-hanger, which (a) feels too typically cinematic for the tempest-in-a-honeypot scale of the Pooh-niverse, and (b) raises some puzzling topographical questions about the Hundred Acre Wood.

Originally posted Mar 19, 2003 Published in issue #702 Mar 28, 2003 Order article reprints

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