Pooh's Heffalump Movie
by Frank Nissen
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Actor: Brenda Blethyn, Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Kyle Stanger, Nikita HopkinsDirector: Frank Nissen
Brand: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
Editor: Anthony F. Rocco
Editor: Nancy Frazen
Producer: Clay Renfroe
Producer: Jessica Koplos-Miller
Writer: A.A. Milne
Writer: Brian Hohlfeld
Writer: Evan Spiliotopoulos
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: AC-3, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 68 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
Product features:
- Straight from the theaters, it's a grand scale animated feature that is as exciting as it is charming, where friendship, understanding, and adventure abound as Winnie the Pooh and his friends learn that things are not always as they appear. A quiet day in the Hundred Acre Wood quickly grows mysterious when a strange sound echoes through the trees -- a sound that can only be . . . a Heffalump!
DVD Reviews of Pooh's Heffalump Movie
DVD Review: Mixed Messages... and Not All That Fun
Summary: 2 Stars
We bought this movie for my toddler son (2 1/2 years old). He loved it at first... until he became old enough to recognize the facial expressions on the characters.
The fact is, your old pals Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Rabbit have NO FUN in this movie. They start off worried and progress through terrified to angry to contrite. Even Roo and the new friend Lumpy are pretty miserable for at least half the time. The "fun" of this movie comes from understanding how silly the "grown-ups" are acting... if your child is old enough to understand those jokes, then he or she is old enough for you to worry about these mixed messages:
--Miss Piglet and Ms. Rabbit? Piglet awakes in his frilly bedroom, wearing a ruffled, pink sleeping mask. Rabbit comes out of his hole in a pink sleeping robe with curlers in his ears. What's the message here? If you're small and timid, you're effeminate? If you're a worry-wart and a know-it-all, you're also effeminate? Or is it just "funny" to dress like a girl?
--Roo knows best. Roo disregards Rabbit's instructions to stay home and sneaks out without telling his mother where he's going. He's also the best at lassoing skills, and wiser in his attitude toward heffalumps. The other grown-up "males" (Kanga and Mrs. Heffalump are wise and helpful) are frightened, foolish, and inept.
--Roo, the worst kind of friend. When he meets up with Lumpy, Roo talks Lumpy into disobeying his mother - twice! First Roo convinces him to ignore her calls and come with Roo instead, and the other time he talks Lumpy into crossing over a fence to an area Lumpy's not allowed to be in. He also manipulates Lumpy into "meeting his friends", when he really just wants to show off his captured heffalump. And remember, Roo describes himself as a "grown-up" to Lumpy, so Lumpy is following dangerous instructions from a stranger.
--It's not the destruction, it's the clothes. Roo and Lumpy trash Rabbit's garden by playing a game, and what are they worried about? Their mothers won't like the mess... on their clothes. So they go wash up. They also run away from the mess they make in Pooh's house...which they enter when he's not home, where Lumpy starts eating honey without invitation or permission. Thank goodness Pooh's not too fond of honey or anything like that.
Are these messages subtle? Yes, for the most part. Would I care so much if more of the movie was happy and sweet? Probably not. But taken all together, the movie was definitely a disappointment. There are better movies to teach your children about accepting differences and conquering fears - this one wasn't worth it.
Description of Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Straight from the theaters, it's a grand scale animated feature that is as exciting as it is charming, where friendship, understanding, and adventure abound as Winnie the Pooh and his friends learn that things are not always as they appear. A quiet day in the Hundred Acre Wood quickly grows mysterious when a strange sound echoes through the trees -- a sound that can only be . . . a Heffalump! While the friends devise, Roo sets off into the Wood and discovers a Heffalump named Lumpy. To Roo's great surprise, Heffalumps are quite friendly and playful. After meeting Lumpy, Roo wonders why the others are so frightened and why Lumpy is so afraid of Roo's friends. Upon discovering their new friendship, Roo and Lumpy's loved ones realize that Heffalumps are nothing to fear at all. Filled with humor, heart, and Heffalumps, this warm and wonderful adventure is great fun for the entire family.Pooh's Heffalump Movie introduces a lovable new character to the Hundred Acre Wood. When mysterious noises spook Pooh, Piglet, and the others, Rabbit explains that everyone will have to band together to track down the dreaded Heffalump. Well, everyone, that is, except Roo, who's too small for the task. Not surprisingly, it's Roo who makes first contact, and he quickly finds out that first impressions aren't always true. You can see the Big Messages coming from a mile off (Xenophobia is bad! Don't underestimate little kids!), and one moment of mischief curiously passes without even requiring an apology. But kids will be charmed by the Heffalump and may even connect with the empowerment/maturity themes. Among the voice cast, Jim Cummings does knockout impressions of Sterling Holloway and Paul Winchell as the voices of Pooh and Tigger, respectively, and Carly Simon's songs are at their best when she sings them herself. --David Horiuchi
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