Pooh's Heffalump Movie

Infobox Film | name =Pooh's Heffalump Movie


caption = Promotional poster for "Pooh's Heffalump Movie"
director = Frank Nissen
producer = Jessica Koplos-Miller
writer = Brian Hohlfeld
Evan Spiliotopoulos
starring = Jim Cummings
John Fiedler
Kath Soucie
Peter Cullen
Brenda Blethyn
Kyle Stanger
music = Joel McNeely
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Walt Disney Pictures
Buena Vista Pictures
released = February 11, 2005
runtime = 68 minutes
language = English
country = United States
budget = $20 million
imdb_id = 0407121
preceded_by = "" (2004)
followed_by = "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie" (2005)

"Pooh's Heffalump Movie" is an animated Winnie the Pooh film, released by Walt Disney Pictures in 2005. This was the last theatrical feature-length film based on Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" franchise.

Plot

Winnie the Pooh and his friends hear a strange noise and find a set of large, perfectly circular footprints in the Hundred Acre Wood. They jump to the conclusion that the noise and prints are from a heffalump, and Rabbit organizes an expedition to go try to catch it; but Roo is told to stay behind, as everyone believes the expedition is too dangerous for one as young as he.

Roo slips out on his own in search of the heffalump, and soon finds it -- quite by accident. "It" is a playful young four-footed creature named Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump IV (nicknamed "Lumpy"), colored lavender and having a Southern English accent and a trunk like an elephant, but being not much larger than Roo. Roo is afraid at first but the two quickly make friends and play. Roo asks Lumpy to come home with him to meet all of Roo's friends; Lumpy is afraid because of what he thinks they might be like, but Roo reassures him and they return to the Hundred Acre Wood, which is deserted, as everyone else is still out searching for the heffalump.

The pair eventually meet up with the rest of Roo's friends, who are frightened and immediately try to "rescue" Roo and capture the Lumpy. Lumpy runs away; in running after him Roo ends up in a tight spot, and it's up to Lumpy's mother to save Roo and show everyone that heffalumps are nice and not to be feared.

Cast

Nikita Hopkins Roo
Kyle Stanger Lumpy
Jim Cummings Winnie the Pooh, Tigger
Peter Cullen Eeyore
John Fiedler Piglet
Ken Sansom Rabbit

Trivia

*More than 900 children, most of them actors, auditioned in the U.S. for the voice of Lumpy. Soon thereafter, auditions were held in the UK. That day, the team found their Lumpy in five-year-old Kyle Stanger, who had never acted before. Songwriter and recording artist Carly Simon helped come up with Lumpy's full name: Heffridge Trompler Brompet Heffalump, IV. Simon also sings on the soundtrack and wrote some new songs for the film. According to the team, she became 'very passionate' about the story during production.
*Tigger is red with black stripes and is catching heffalumps.
*Despite the popular "Heffalumps and Woozles" song from "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh", there are no woozles in this film.
*Owl and Gopher are absent in this movie.
*Christopher Robin appears during the end credits, and does not speak for the first time in this film.
*Although titled "Pooh's Heffalump Movie", Pooh does not play a large role in the movie, instead Roo plays the large role. This has been seen in many of the series' most recent theatrical releases, such as "The Tigger Movie" and "Piglet's Big Movie".
*This was the last film when Nikita Hopkins was the voice of Roo, who was once portrayed by Jimmy Bennett and is currently portrayed by former "" actor Max Burkholder.
*To date, despite the direct to video films, this is the shortest theatrical Winnie the Pooh film released.

External links

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*imdb title|id=0407121|title=Pooh's Heffalump Movie
* [http://www.movieweb.com/movies/film/48/2748/summary.php Pooh's Heffalump Movie at MovieWeb]