The Tigger Movie

Reviewer: Alyice Edrich

The Cartoon

The Plot

Convinced he’s the only one in the Hundred Acre Wood without a family, Tigger sets out to find the rest of his clan—if they exist at all.

Starring

John Hurt, Ken Sansom, Kath Soucie, John Fiedler, Andre Stojka, and more.

The Review

As with its predecessor, The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh, The Tigger Movie is low-key when it comes to action and animation. Yet, it is quite a delightful film.

The Tigger Movie strays from the original storyline, in which Tigger is usually a happy-go-lucky, hyperactive character with no cares in the world to someone who, for a brief moment in time, loses sight of himself and begins to question everything about his existence. All the while wondering, “Where are the rest of the tiggers? Am I all there is left in the world? Where is my family?”

Concerned about Tigger’s change in mood, the gang: Owl, Rabbit, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore decide to write Tigger a letter “from his family”. The effort, while misguided, was truly from the heart. But when Tigger gets the letter, he assumes his “family” is coming to the Hundred Acre Wood to see him. Not wanting to disappoint Tigger, the gang opts to disillusion him by dressing up as other Tiggers. But Tigger, being smart, sees through their act and sets out to find his “real” family.

As winter progresses, however, a storm hits causing the gang to leave their warm, cozy homes in search of their lost family member. And that’s when Tigger discovers who his real family is and that’s when the loneliness he felt over being a unique, one-and-only Tigger is replaced with warm, fuzzy feelings of being loved and wanted. It is then that Tigger discovers family isn’t always about biology.

Family, according to the gang, is about the bonds you create with those who are willing to love you unconditionally, go out of their way to make you feel better, aren’t afraid of to put themselves in danger to keep you safe, and who simply have a way of brightening your day just by being a part of your life.

Your Task

Watch The Tigger Movie with your kids then take them out for ice cream. As you’re sitting at the parlor table, enjoying your ice cream, casually ask them how they felt when Tigger felt lonely and when he realized that he already had family. Then ask them to share one nice thing about each member of their family.