Brief Comments: The Tigger Movie -- ** (out of ****)
Film Criticism By Zachary McGhee Rated G, 77 minutes, 2000. Walt Disney. Directed by Jim Falkenstein.
I feel kind of bad so casually dismissing kindhearted kids' fare like "The Tigger Movie", in which Tigger goes on a search for his "real" family after being rejected by Pooh Bear and Co. when he requests that they go bouncing with him and demands that, eventually, they all discover that they are his family, but too much of this film had me thinking that AA Milne would be rotating like a rotisserie in his grave over this literary sacrilege. The movie's themeâ€'accepting different kinds of families, particularly adoptiveâ€'is nice enough, but the metaphor isn't disguised too well. The presence of "Toy Story 2" in the same multiplex had me drawing a mental Venn diagram of their positive aspects, and ultimately finding the similarities column thin, and the "Toy Story 2" column about ten times longer than Falkenstein’s obvious potboiler. Meanwhile, the movie rushes with the narrative, but somehow seems prolonged as a whole, even though it clocks in at a mercifully short 77 minutes. Nice try, but something about "The Tigger Movie" just screams "Direct-to-Video".
-Copyright 2000 Zachary McGhee
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