The Tigger Movie

The Tigger Movie was the second theatrically released Winnie-the-Pooh feature film. It was originally released on February 11, 2000 in the United States. The movie is centered around Tigger, who for the first time in his life realizes how boring it is to be the only one of his kind and excitedly decides to search for his family.

Cast[]

Tigger and Winnie the Pooh - Jim Cummings
Piglet - John Fiedler
Eeyore - Peter Cullen
Kanga - Kath Soucie
Roo - Nikita Hopkins
Rabbit - Ken Sansom
Owl - Andre Stojka
Christopher Robin - Tom Attenborough
The Frogs and the Bees - Frank Welker
Mr. Narrator - John Hurt

Plot[]

Tigger interrupts the start of the story, fed up with most of the stories being about Pooh. After rearranging the title page to spell out the movie's title, the story resumes. In the 100 Acre Wood, Tigger searches for someone to bounce with him, but all of his friends are too busy preparing for the upcoming winter. Tigger's closest friend Roo wants to play with him but arrives too late to do so. While he searches for a playmate, Tigger inadvertently destroys Eeyore's house with a boulder. Rabbit gathers Pooh, Piglet, Kanga and Roo and they build a mechanical pulley system to remove the boulder, with a failure. Tigger arrives and helps out, but his actions wreck the machine and send everyone into a muddy lake (except Roo, who lands in a tree and Eeyore, who lands in a thorn bush). Very upset, Rabbit and the rest of Tigger's friends feel bad for him for his troublesome rambunctious nature while saying that they are not like him, hurting his feelings. Roo, seeing Tigger's sadness and alienation, asks him if he has got any family members of his own. Tigger is fascinated by the concept and decides to search for his family, hoping to finally be within a similar company. Misunderstanding advice from Owl, Tigger begins searching for his family tree, believing it to be a centuries-old tree covered in stripes and with many Tiggers upon it. After his search fails, they return to Tigger's house. After finding a golden, heart-shaped locket, they believe that a picture of Tigger's family is inside it. However, the locket is empty. Roo suggests that he writes a letter to his family and he does so. He lets the wind carry it away with hopes that it will reach his family, but receives no response after days of waiting and begins to lose hope. Tigger's sympathetic friends decide to write him a letter; everyone contributes a bit of friendly advice and signs it "your family". Tigger misinterprets the content of the letter and comes to believe that his family exists and is intending to visit him, with the others unable to tell him the truth. He organizes a large and absurd party in preparation for a family reunion. Roo, wishing to uphold Tigger's spirits, encourages his friends to disguise themselves as Tiggers and attend his party. Rabbit refuses to join in and instead berates the others for not preparing for the harsh conditions ahead before leaving, but Roo convinces everyone to continue with the plan. After a great effort in disguising themselves and learning to behave like Tiggers, Tigger's friends arrive at his party. He completely falls for the disguises until Roo's mask falls off after an attempt to imitate a complex bounce that Tigger had taught him earlier. In light of his friends's deception, the upset and betrayed Tigger facepalms and sets out into a blizzard in search of his real family, taking his letter and locket with him. After falling down a cliff in an attempt to recover his locket, he finds an immense tree that the snow has whitened with the stripes, convincing him that it is the family tree he had sought, but is saddened when he finds no one waiting for him there. Pooh, Roo, Piglet, Eeyore and Rabbit set out on an expedition in search of him, but Rabbit accidentally enrages Tigger by telling him to forget about his family tree. Their raging argument, in which Tigger angrily lashes out at Rabbit, causes an avalanche, which drives Tigger to rescue his friends by carrying them up into the tree branches. When Tigger has swept away himself, Roo successfully performs Tigger's bounce and saves him. The 2 perform the bounce together to escape the avalanche and land back on the tree. When the avalanche subsides, Owl and Kanga find them. Christopher Robin also arrives and after finding out what happened, tells Tigger he never needed to go looking for his family. Tigger protests, saying he got a letter from his family. He tries to show it to them but discovers it was lost in the avalanche (it was actually lost before the avalanche happened). Tigger's friends reveal their authorship of the letter by reciting its pieces from memory. Tigger finally realizes that his friends are his true family and he throws a new party in honor of them while handing out presents for them: a new home for Eeyore (made from the family room meant for Tigger's non-existent family), a toy plane for Christopher Robin, a yo-yo for Owl, a hat for Kanga, a large amount of honey for Pooh, lots of firewood for Piglet, a promise to Rabbit that he will watch where he's bouncing from now on (as well as a hug), and the locket for Roo (whom he finally accepts as a brother figure). Christopher Robin then takes a picture of everyone to put inside the locket. The film ends with the newly taken photo shown inside the locket while the camera backs away as it closes up.

Songs[]

Reception[]

The Tigger Movie wasn’t as well received as the original. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 71% and said "The Tigger Movie may lack the technological flash and underlying adult sophistication of other recent animated movies, but it’s fun and charming." and MetaCritic gave it 63 out of 100.

It was also a success in the box office, grossing $90 million, 3 times as much as it's budget.

The film was nominated for 3 Annie Awards, including Director (Jun Falkenstein), Music (Robert and Richard Sherman) and Voice Acting: Male (Nikita Hopkins as Roo).

Release[]

The Tigger Movie was released on Disney VHS and DVD on August 22, 2000.

Trivia[]

This movie implies Tigger never met his family or another one of his species. This is somewhat contradicted in the The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "The Piglet Who Would Be King" where Tigger mentions his mother.
Paul Winchell, the original voice of Tigger, was supposed to reprise the role for the film, but his voice got too scratchy due to his age and the role was given to Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh. Cummings had previously voiced Tigger in the 3rd and the 4th seasons of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and did the singing voice in several specials where Winchell did the voice. Following this, Winchell retired and Jim Cummings took over the role of Tigger full time. This also resulted in John Fiedler becoming the last active member of the original Winnie the Pooh cast from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
This is the first Winnie the Pooh feature film to feature Nikita Hopkins as Roo, who took over the role starting with Winnie the Pooh: The Seasons of Giving.
This was Jim Cummings's favorite Winnie the Pooh film.
This is the only piece of Winnie the Pooh media to feature Tom Attenborough and John Hurt as Christopher Robin and the Narrator respectively.
The Winnie the Pooh theme song was replaced with The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers.
This is the first Winnie the Pooh film to use in a digital ink.
In Round My Family Tree, there is a Tigger resembling Marilyn Monroe.
Gopher is the only animal character absent in the film.
When Owl asks Tigger, "Where did it say that, exactly?", he is voiced by Jim Cummings.

Trailers[]

102 Dalmatians
The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea
Fantasia 2000
Toy Story 2
Winnie the Pooh: Storybook Classics (VHS only)
Discover Spot (VHS only)
Disney's Halloween Favorites (VHS only)
Playhouse Disney Promo (VHS only)
Tigger's Honey Hunt/Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood Video Games Promo
Buzz Lightyear of the Star Command: The Adventure Begins (DVD only)

Transcript[]

The Tigger Movie/Transcript

External links[]

The Tigger Movie on Wikipedia
The Tigger Movie on Disney+