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Piglet's Big Movie is a 2003 American animated musical comedy-drama film released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 21, 2003. The film features the characters from the Winnie-the-Pooh books written by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, and is the third theatrically released Winnie the Pooh feature. In this film, Piglet is ashamed of being small and clumsy and wanders off into the Hundred Acre Wood, leading all of his friends to form a search party to find him. Piglet's Big Movie was produced by the Japanese office of Disneytoon Studios and the animation production was by Walt Disney Animation Japan, Inc. with additional animation provided by Gullwing Co., Ltd., additional background by Studio Fuga and digital ink and paint by T2 Studio.

Piglet's Big Movie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Francis Glebas
Screenplay by	Brian Hohlfeld A. A. Milne (Books)
Based on	Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner created by A. A. Milne (Books)
Produced by	Michelle Pappalardo-Robinson
Starring	John Fiedler Jim Cummings Nikita Hopkins Ken Sansom Peter Cullen Kath Soucie Andre Stojka Tom Wheatley
Edited by	Ivan Bilancio
Music by	Carl Johnson (score) Carly Simon (songs)
Production companies	DisneyToon Studios[1] Walt Disney Pictures[2][1]
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release dates	March 16, 2003 (2003-03-16) (Premiere) March 21, 2003 (2003-03-21) (United States) July 2, 2003 (2003-07-02) (Manila, Philippines)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States[2]
Language	English
Budget	$46 million[3]
Box office	$62.9 million[4]

Plot

Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger and Pooh are trying to get bees to move into a new hive so they can get the honey. Piglet arrives and is told that he is too small to help, but he manages to trap the bees in the new hive after the plan goes awry due to the bees not falling for their trick. The others take the credit and Piglet leaves dejectedly, his heroism being unnoticed. When the bees break free, Pooh, Rabbit, Tigger, and Eeyore escape to Piglet's house. Noticing Piglet's absence, they decide to find him using Piglet's scrapbook as a guide. The five tell the stories of the pictures therein, leading to several flashbacks that make up the majority of the film.

The first story is of Kanga and Roo's arrival in the Hundred Acre Wood. Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Rabbit are afraid of the newcomers, and Rabbit plans to use Piglet as a decoy to ransom Roo to force Kanga to leave. Kanga sees through the plan and plays along, pretending that Piglet is Roo, Piglet sees how nice she is while Roo and Rabbit get along well. Kanga and Roo are allowed to stay. Back at the present, Roo joins the group in their search for Piglet.

The second story is of the expedition to find the North Pole. Roo falls in the river and Piglet uses a long stick to flip him into the air. His heroism is overlooked when he gives the stick to Pooh to try to catch Roo, who is actually caught by Kanga, and Christopher Robin credits Pooh with finding the North Pole. Back in the present, the friends felt guilt and regret for not crediting Piglet for his part in the rescue.

The third story concerns building The House at Pooh Corner. Piglet has the idea to build Eeyore a house in a place that they call Pooh Corner, and is joined by Pooh and Tigger to build it. Piglet struggles to keep up as Tigger and Pooh try to build the house using some neatly stacked sticks. Their attempts fall apart. Tigger and Pooh leave Piglet behind and go to tell Eeyore the bad news, but Eeyore says he already built himself a house of sticks, revealing that the sticks Pooh and Tigger used had been his house. Piglet arrives and leads them back to Eeyore's newly completed house. Once again, Piglet's contribution is overlooked as the wind is given the credit for moving Eeyore's house.

Back in the present, an argument between Rabbit and Tigger ends with the scrapbook falling into a river. Without their guide, the friends return to Piglet's house and, after making drawings of Piglet's heroism to celebrate his bravery, they again resolve to find Piglet. They come across some scrapbook pages which have floated downstream, and find the book's bindings suspended on a hollow log looming over a waterfall. Trying to retrieve it, Pooh falls into a hole in the log. The others cannot reach to rescue him. Piglet arrives and helps but the log breaks in half. Eeyore, Rabbit, Roo and Tigger escape as the top half of the log falls down the waterfall, and grieve over the apparent loss of Piglet and Pooh. However, Piglet and Pooh had escaped into the bottom half of the log, and reunite with their friends. The friends apologies to Piglet for the loss of his scrapbook and their disregard of his good deeds, but he claims that its not that important.

Piglet's friends take him back to his house to show him their new drawings celebrating his befriending of Kanga and Roo, rescuing Roo with the North Pole, and building Eeyore's house at Pooh Corner. Pooh takes Piglet to Eeyore's house to show him he changed the sign to "Pooh and Piglet Corner". When everyone else arrives, Pooh says "it's the least [they] could do for a very small Piglet who has done such very big things." Piglet casts a very large shadow behind them.

Cast

• John Fiedler as Piglet
• Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh / Tigger
• Andre Stojka as Owl
• Kath Soucie as Kanga
• Nikita Hopkins as Roo
• Peter Cullen as Eeyore
• Ken Sansom as Rabbit
• Tom Wheatley as Christopher Robin

Production

Piglet's Big Movie was produced by Disneytoon Studios, Walt Disney Animation (Japan), Gullwing Co., Ltd, Studio Fuga, and T2 Studio.

Music

Piglet's Big Movie (Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by Carly Simon
Released	March 18, 2003
Recorded	2002–2003
Length	43:02
Label	Walt Disney Records
Producer	Matt Walker, Carly Simon, Rob Mathes, Michael Kosarin

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[5]

American singer-songwriter Carly Simon wrote seven new songs for the film, and performed six of them ("If I Wasn't So Small", "Mother's Intuition", "Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear", "With a Few Good Friends", "The More I Look Inside", and "Comforting to Know"), as well as recording her own version of the Sherman brothers' "Winnie the Pooh" theme song.[6]

"The More It Snows" 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" Simon was accompanied by the cast.[7]

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

Songs

Original songs performed in the film include:

Reception

Box office

Piglet's Big Movie was number seven on the box-office charts on its opening weekend, earning $6 million. The film domestically grossed $23 million,[4] half the amount of what The Tigger Movie earned,[8] and it grossed nearly $63 million worldwide.[4]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a "Certified Fresh" rating of 70% based on 77 reviews, and an average rating of 6.2/10. The site's critical consensus is "Wholesome and charming entertainment for young children."[9] On Metacritic the film has a score of 62/100 based on reviews from 23 critics.[10] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A, on a scale of A+ to F.[11]

Film critic Stephen Holden of New York Times called the film an "oasis of gentleness and wit."[12] 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."[13]

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipient	Result
Annie Awards[14]	Outstanding Effects Animation	Madoka Yasue	Nominated

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." [15] 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.[16]

Sources

The film's plot is based primarily on five A. A. Milne stories: "In which Piglet meets a Heffalump," "In which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath," and "In which Christopher Robin Leads an Expedition to the North Pole" (chapters 5, 7, and 8 of Winnie-the-Pooh); and "In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore" and "In which a search is organized and Piglet nearly meets the Heffalump again" (chapters 1 and 3 of The House at Pooh Corner).

Releases

The film is released on VHS and DVD on July 29, 2003.[17] Close captioned by the National Captioning Institute with the new Disney National Captioning Institute Close Captioning first used in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure.

References

External links

• Official website
• Piglet's Big Movie at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Piglet's Big Movie

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[ru] Большой фильм про Поросёнка

«Большой фильм про Поросёнка» (англ. Piglet’s Big Movie) — мультфильм компании DisneyToon Studios, премьера которого состоялась 21 марта 2003 года. Он рассказывает о трёх приключениях Хрюни (Пятачка).

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