Piglet's Big Movie
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Directed by | Francis Glebas |
Written by | A.A. Milne Brian Hohlfeld |
Starring | John Fiedler as Piglet Jim Cummings as Winnie-the-Pooh/Tigger Ken Sansom as Rabbit Nikita Hopkins as Roo Kath Soucie as Kanga Peter Cullen as Eeyore Andre Stojka as Owl Tom Wheatley as Christopher Robin |
Music by | Carly Simon Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman |
Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
Release date | March 16, 2003 |
Running time | 75 mins |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Piglet's Big Movie is a 2003 animated feature produced by the DisneyToon Studios in Tokyo, Japan and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It is based upon the characters in the Winnie-the-Pooh books written by A. A. Milne. In this film, Piglet is ashamed of being small but he eventually learns that it's not so bad. Piglet's Big Movie continues to air on Playhouse Disney.
The three flashback sequences are the first adaptations of original A.A. Milne stories since The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. Edited to make Piglet the hero of the stories and to conform to the characters' idiosyncrasies as Disney has portrayed them, they nevertheless retain much of Milne's original plot. In this movie, Pooh changes the name of Pooh Corner to Pooh and Piglet Corner, something that he was originally going to do, but the name did not sound small and more like a corner, which it was. Besides the Carly Simon songs, Sherman Brothers music is also featured.
Voice actors and their characters
- John Fiedler — Piglet
- Jim Cummings — Winnie-the-Pooh/Tigger
- Ken Sansom — Rabbit
- Nikita Hopkins — Roo
- Peter Cullen — Eeyore
- Andre Stojka - Owl
- Tom Wheatly - Christopher Robin
Reception
Piglet's Big Movie opened #7 on its opening weekend, earning $6,097,758. The U.S. Box Office in total for the film was $23,103,423, about half the amount from The Tigger Movie released three years before this film. The film received another $39,767,123 overseas in total of $62,870,546, making it a moderate Box Office Success. The film also received generally positive reviews (77% on Rotten Tomatoes).