The Tigger Movie . Tucson Weekly . 02-21-00

The Tigger Movie

DIRECTED BY: Jun Falkenstein

REVIEWED: 02-21-00

Disney's latest addition puts the silly old bear in the back seat without compromising the storybook language and illustration we've come to know and love. Herein, self-centered but well-meaning Tigger bounces one forest critter too many, leading to a befuddled Pooh, cross Rabbit, homeless Eeyore, frightened Piglet and grief-stricken Roo. If Benjamin Hoff based a book on it, it might be called The Existentialism of Tigger. Part bedtime story and part action movie, it delivers Disney's trademark brand of computer-aided fireworks in just under 90 minutes. But Tigger's supple effects (leaves blowing across a still frame, rippling grass, transparent rays of sunlight) and watercolored images of the 100 Acre Wood reveal foreign influences unmistakably inspired by Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (whose Princess Mononoke debuted in America a couple of months ago). In fact, much of Tigger's production work was completed in Japan, by Japanese animators. Those who avoid the Disney franchise for its jingoistic tendencies have nothing to fear in, and may yet enjoy, this latest adventure.

--Mari Wadsworth

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