Oh D-D-D-Dear. Winnie the Pooh and Piglet came and went from the movie theater to dvd faster than Pooh bear can eat a jar of honey. I must say, had I spent $8.25 to go see this movie in a theater, I'd be madder than a swarm of bees who have just had their honey stolen by a tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff.
Sadly, I'm going to estimate that the average mom spent well in excess of $8.25 for only 70 or 80 minutes of solitude while her children remained fixated on the inhabitants of the 100 Acre Wood. Figure, $8.25 for an adult ticket $6.25x2 for $12.50 for two children, and about $10 for sodas and popcorn, for a total of $30.25 extorted out of parents by Disney.

Piglet's Big Movie is:
NOT WORTH IT!
Not only is this movie way to short, one would think Piglet's Big Movie must be a story of Piglet, maybe he goes off on his own, accomplishes something good, has a lot of laughs on the way, overcomes adversity, but such is not the case.

Piglet's Big Movie can best be described as a longer episode of a regular Winnie The Pooh cartoon. There is little special going on here. You have a funny opening where Piglet saves the day, and then he is ignored, so off he wanders. Eventually the other characters begin to wonder where little Piglet has gone off to, is he in danger? We better find him!

This premise sets in motion what amounts to a series of flashbacks drawn from Piglet's book of memories, his scrap book. I had no idea Piglet was scrapbooking, but I do now, and also learned just how annoying Rabbit can be.
I doubt anyone outside of Disney would miss Rabbit if hunting season ever came to the 100 Acre Wood.

Rabbit simply annoys throughout the movie. He is condescending towards Piglet, always arguing with Tigger, acts like a bigot towards Kanga and Roo, and prettymuch ruins everything. It amazes me that I'd never seen Kanga as the minority single mom before, but Rabbit helped point that out to me in one of the flashback scenes where Rabbit wanted to drive Kanga from the forest because she was different. Of course, the rest of the half-wits went along with his plan, because after all, he's Rabbit,and if you don't go along with Rabbit, he just gets more annoying. I'm surprised he didn't want to burn a cross outside of Kanga's tree house. Then again, that would be a much simpler plan than the ridiculous plan he comes up with.

This movie just moves along in the characters' search for Piglet as they turn the pages of Piglet's Scrapbook. You see how Eeyore's house got to be where it is, how Kanga got accepted, how Piglet "saved" Roo, how Pooh discovered the North Pole, and little else.

Eventually Piglet is "found" and he saves the day. Everyone rejoices and sees Piglet for the important little creature he is. Of course, eventually they will forget, as they always do, and Piglet will be taken for granted.

It is hard to find fault with Winnie The Pooh and his buddies, but I seem to have disliked this film, because it seemed to have been advertised as Piglet's movie. Yet Piglet does little in it, it's closer to what you'd see on a lifetime achievement award compilation. We have no real idea what Piglet went off and was doing in the forest aside from talking to a squirrel and a bird. Piglet just sort of materializes when they need him at the end. Piglet's big movie sounds like Piglet should have had some big adventure, like the episode when Piglet wandered off into the woods, discovered a bunch of little piglets who began worshipping Piglet as a god. Now that was a good episode, and Piglet's Big Movie was nowhere near as good as that.

Christopher Robin is only one step away from Rabbit on the annoying scale. It seems there is no real purpose for him in the film, other than he has a stupid "adventure" for the little animals in a flashback scene. Pooh and his buddies would get along fine if Christopher Robin went and stepped in a bear trap, and died after chewing his leg off trying to crawl home. He really does absolutely nothing, other than upset the peace and tranquility of the bumbling adventures of Pooh. Somebody tell him to leave his stupid drum at home too, the woods doesn't need that nonsense.

A big deal was made of CARLY SIMON doing some music for this film. So what. She's about as relevant to Pooh fans as Vanilla Ice. Disney should have given an undiscovered talent the chance to sing the few songs in this movie, and taken the money they spent on Carly, and used it to write in a few more scenes.

Overall, this is a Pooh film, and as such, it cannot be a bad thing. It is just an incredible disappointment, and yet another example of Disney's never ending pursuit of milking every last dollar out of families and giving them as little as possible in return.

Recommended:
No

Viewing Format: DVD
Video Occasion: Good for a Rainy Day
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children up to Age 4