Steve Pulaski
The Tigger Movie is a first in the Winnie the Pooh franchise for being named after one character. Later we would get Piglet's Big Movie, but for now, Tigger takes the stage. What we get is an on-par children's film, but not enough fun, excitement, or laughs to be compared to the two previous Pooh films.Tigger has been curious about his family recently, and is now looking for his family tree (a real tree, he mistakes). He prances around with his buddy Roo in search of his family before he decides to write them a letter. Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, and Kanga worry about Tigger being letdown by his family's no-show when they see he has thrown a party for them. So they all dress up like Tiggers to make Tigger feel loved.The bouncy, stripped character sure has enough energy to carry a mere seventy-five minute film, but when compared to the gentleness of the previous two films, Tigger's antics grow tiresome after a little while and then the rest of the cast joins him giving a likable performance.The animation, events, and the cheery nature brought from the three short stories in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, lacks here greatly because Tigger is such a rambunctious and silly character that a lot of the joy and easy-flow that occupied the stories is kind of neglected here. But I'm in no way trying to put down the beast, he is quite an uppity character, that has some high points in this film.Children will enjoy this because their is always something on screen that is either fast-paced or musical. Parents might enjoy bits and pieces, while at other points may be annoyed by Tigger's antics. The Tigger Movie packs a wallop, and the wonderful thing is that it's a semi-wonderful thing.Voiced by: Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, John Fiedler, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen, Andre Stojka, Kath Soucie, and Tom Attenborough. Directed by: Jun Falkenstein.
Phillemos
The people who have been posting that this movie is too depressing are missing the point. You can't make a full-length movie about anything, even the mighty Tigger, and just have two hours of "life is wonderful" hoo-has without making it terminally boring. So, this movie decides to expand on one of the staple features of the great Tigger... He is the only Tigger alive, as far as he can tell. He wants to meet his long lost family. Since nobody in the Hundred Acre Wood knows where he came from, they all decide to dress up in Tigger costumes. Tigger figures it out, is hurt and upset, and vows to leave the Hundred Acre Wood, forever I might add, during a blinding nor'easter. When he's almost died of hypothermia, he gets rescued by the Hundre Acre folks and realizes that they are all the family He needs. First of all, this movie is no more depressing than "Bambi," "Lady and the Tramp" or any "Charlie Brown" movie, all of which are geared toward kids. If you cried when Tigger got upset and left in a snowstorm, then this movie did its job. Second, the movie is well done and keeps you enthralled throughout. I actually saw this with an ex-girlfriend and she said it was one of the best movies anyone had taken her to see. This gets a 9 out of 10.
Cinema_Fan
No one ages in the world that is Walt Disney's, not even in the 100-Acre Wood. The ever-youthful Christopher Robin, and his imaginary friends such as Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Roo, Kanga, Rabbit, Owl and yes, the infamous Tigger are all here, they never leave.The Winnie the Pooh brand name, had been produced once more by The Walt Disney Company, this was to become The Tigger Movie. Without, sadly, the original voice that was Paul Winchell (1922 – 2005), who for many years had given us all fun and frolics with his ever lovable, or annoying, what ever your perspective may be, character Tigger, via a voice of lovable believability and honesty. Here we have the new voice, for a new generation, Jim Cummings (b.1953), not entirely a new comer, as he had voiced Tigger during the 1988 shows The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. While listening to the new voice, I'm afraid, for me, it just does not make it; with the comparison to listening to an elderly gentleman who quite simply had forgotten to put his false teeth back in. While the Americanisation of the associating voices are just bearable, the only English voice here is the narration of John Hurt. The animation here is your same old same old character profiling, as expected with historical characters and their evolution into the modern technical age, but as with this movie in particular, it is clean, sharp, colourful, and ordinary. It isn't about the quality of the messenger, but the importance of the message that The Tigger Movie portrays.In typical Walt Disney fashion, we have the moral standings of family values and friendships that can overcome doubt and loneliness, wherever and whoever the sufferer may be; friends and family are always near to give the boost back to the land of smiles, happiness and championship, they never disappoint.This is really a movie that can be blessed by children from all around the world, with its Tigger silliness, the half a dozen or so songs that accompany any Disney production such as this, and the heart-warming all rounder of a story that will have them happy to have been part of the Tigger family movie.
Leonard Tulipan
So, yes this is a kids movie. But I like Tigger, so I saw this one. There is a bit of a story-line (although it lacks in comparison to some of the BIG Disney's) and there is singing.The German translation doesn't seem to be good (especially the singing) but I cannot compare this to the english original.If you have small kids (say up to 8 years) this might be good entertainment with a good moral at the end of the story. If you don't then you should go for some of the bigger Disney Movies which are better in both song and story.I gave it a entertaining 5/10
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