Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!

Infobox Film
name = Winnie The Pooh & Tigger Too!


caption =
director = John Lounsbery
producer =
writer = A. A. Milne
Ralph Wright
narrator = Sebastian Cabot
starring = Sterling Holloway
John Fiedler
Paul Winchell
Junius Matthews
Dori Whitaker
music = Richard M. Sherman,
Robert B. Sherman
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Walt Disney Home Entertainment
released = December 20, 1974
runtime = 25 minutes
country = USA
language = English
imdb_id = 0072410

"Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!" is the third Winnie-the-Pooh short from Disney, released in theatres on December 20, 1974 accompanying "The Island at the Top of the World". It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to Closed Mondays. It was later added as a segment to "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" (1977). A soundtrack album was released simultaneously and featured such songs as "The Honey Tree" and "Birthday, Birthday." The film is based on the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne.

Plot

Tigger has been bouncing on anyone he comes across for fun, which gets on Rabbit's nerves. After holding a meeting with Pooh and Piglet, Rabbit decides to take everyone, including Tigger, out into the Hundred Acre Wood. But during the trip, Rabbit, Pooh, and Piglet purposefully ditch Tigger on the hopes he would get lost. The three hide in a log as Tigger searches for them. The three try to make it back home, but end up at a certain spot. Pooh offers a silly suggestion to search for that same spot, and Rabbit abandons them to try to prove Pooh wrong. Pooh and Piglet find their way out of the forest by themselves where they come across Tigger. Tigger reveals that Tiggers don't get lost easily. Tigger finds out that Rabbit is still in the forest so he goes off to find him. Rabbit is lost and as he's finding his way home, he's scared by various animal noises such as crickets, frogs, crows, and woodpeckers. The sounds get to him and he frantically tries to run away only to be tackled by Tigger. Tigger then takes Rabbit home.

It's now snowing and Roo wants to go play. Kanga can't be with him so she calls on Tigger to look after Roo which he gladly accepts. Along the way through the woods, Tigger and Roo see Rabbit skating on the ice. Tigger tries to teach Roo how to ice skate by doing it himself, but unfortunately, he loses his balance and collides with Rabbit and the result is Tigger sliding across the ice into a snowbank and Rabbit crashing into his house. Tigger then decides that he doesn't like ice skating. Later on, while bouncing around the woods with Roo on his back, Tigger accidentally jumps too high up a tree and is too scared to get down. He calls for help and Pooh and Piglet come to the scene. Roo successfully jumps down but Tigger refuses to follow suit. Soon Christopher Robin, Rabbit and Kanga arrive and try to convince Tigger to jump. Eventually, Rabbit decides that the group would just have to leave Tigger in the tree forever, on which Tigger promises never to bounce again if he ever was released from his predicament. Sebastian Cabot (narrator) chimes in for help. Tigger begs Cabot to "narrate [him] down from [the tree] ," and Cabot tilts the book, allowing Tigger to step onto the text of the page. Tigger starts to feel better that he made it this far and before he can do otherwise, Cabot tilts the book again causing Tigger to fall down into the snow. Happy, Tigger attempts to bounce but Rabbit stops him reminding Tigger of the promise he made. Devastated, Tigger slowly walks away and Rabbit feels better that there will be peace. But everyone else is sad to see Tigger like this and remind Rabbit of the joy Tigger brought when he was bouncing. Suddenly, Rabbit feels sorry for Tigger and takes back the promise he made and is given a friendly tackle by an overly-excited Tigger. Tigger invites everyone to bounce with him and even teaches Rabbit how to do it. For the first time, Rabbit is happy to be bouncing, as is everyone else and Tigger sings his trademark song for the last time.

Trivia

*Owl, Eeyore or Gopher do not appear in the film, although Owl and Eeyore showed up in the Winnie the Pooh Theme Song.
*Piglet still lives with Pooh in this film. However, in later films Piglet lives in a separate house and Owl lives in a house at the top of a tree. It is likely Piglet found a tree to live in and Owl built a house on top of what used to be Piglet's house.

Voice cast

*Sterling Holloway - Winnie-the-Pooh
*Paul Winchell - Tigger
*Junius Matthews - Rabbit
*John Fiedler - Piglet
*Dori Whitaker - Roo
*Sebastian Cabot - Narrator
*Timothy Turner - Christopher Robin
*Barbara Luddy - Kanga

External links

*imdb title|id=0072410|title=Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
* [http://www.cataroo.com/DBwinnie.html Detailed Info on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! including Don Bluth's involvement]