The Tigger Movie (2000)
Wow this one was utterly TERRIBLE. It’s currently tied for worst we’ve seen with The Black Cauldron. In fact, if I had to choose to watch one of them again I’d probably choose Black Cauldron. That’s how bad this movie was.
Now I know what you're thinking, you're clearly not the target audience for this movie’ and you’re right, but that didn't stop us being charmed by
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and on some level nearly every film to date. We didn’t have high expectations, we just didn’t expect to actually hate the thing.
We were in separate cities while we watched
The Tigger Movie and reading back over our WhatsApp convo to get ideas for the review it struck me that just copy-pasting the whole thing in here would be the best demonstration of how we felt about this film. Its also undeserving of a proper, considered review
.- so here it is, as a special Day 50 (Day 50! (actually, its been far more days than that timewise!) treat, for your amusement!
B: We can chat through it…starting now!
R: Ok go.
B: I realize the problem with this already…Tigger is always annoying.
R: Wow it’s long!
B: It's only been going for 2 minutes!
R: I know but check out how long it is…It’s like over an hour.
B: Tigger said ‘Ta Ta For now’
R: What's wrong with that?
B: Just feels wrong time period wise???
R: Haven’t people been saying that for decades?
B: Probably…oh he (
Tigger) sings! Arghhh!
R: I can’t sympathize with Tigger. There is a guy like Tigger in my office and I basically loathe him…. (I
n reference to the fact that Tigger over enthusiastic and always wants someone to bounce with) - Why can’t he bounce with the kangaroos? They’re pretty bouncy.
B: B/c he is a nine.
R: What? I’d say he was more like a 2 if we are rating Tigger on looks.
B: Wrong word, I meant he is a numpty.
R: Oh
B: He is def the sorest character in hundred acre wood.
R: Sorest? Use normal words.
B: Argh wrong word again…worst. He is the worst character!
R: This does not have the charm of
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
B: In that film Pooh is silly, but cute and so is his singing…I maintain even very small children would not like this movie.
R: Yeah Tigger’s singing in this is not good and does not fit. It feels like a movie made out of a picture book.
B: Yep
R: It's one of those repetitive picture books where the main character keeps going ‘will you be my friend’? or something to loads of characters one after another and it's all very charming but you are ready for it to be over in five minutes.
B: It’s no
Bye Bye Baby (
excellent children's book!).
R: Why are we now getting a bee subplot? (
Pooh attempts to get honey from some bees while singing a song. The whole thing is copy pasted from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) It has nothing to do with anything. Did they think we forgot that Pooh’s likes honey?
B: I have no idea.
R: It couldn’t be that they had a song left over from
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and just thought they would chuck it in because the movie wasn’t long enough, COULD IT???
B: They got chased by bees last time too! I call BS!
R: Another waste of John Hurt. What does Disney have against John Hurt that they keep sticking him in their worst movies?
B: Is Tigger older than Roo? Cos he certainly doesn't act it.
R: It's hard to say.
B: Argh Tigger as Marilyn Monroe during ‘the skirt moment’. This movie took a turn for the adult. Who is this for?
R: Not only do I hate this song but it completely takes you out of the Pooh literary/cinematic universe into an alternative 1950s.
B: With synchronized swimming!
R: And Marilyn Tigger. What is the message of this movie?
B: Never watch this movie again? We’ve left the renaissance far behind?
R: Not to mention the immortal prose of AA Milne. Who wrote these songs? How can there still be so much of this movie to go?
B: It’s tough - This is
Black Cauldron bad but in a totally different way. I could not say what would be worse to sit through again.
R: I think this…but that’s because I am sitting through it right now.
B: Wow Tigger is a ..(
term for not a nice gentleman)
R: I’m never watching either of them again…Now this movie is depressing too.
B: I feel for Roo….I maintain Tigger is a… (
term for a not nice gentleman)
R: Yeah, ingrate.Take a hint moron, Tiggers are not a thing.
B: Push him off a cliff! Push him off a cliff!…
R: Push him off a cliff!..Uh oh!
B: Oh haha the cliff took my advice (
in reference to an avalanche that fells Tigger and co)…That’s hilarious!
R: One of the most unlikeable characters we have encountered. The Hundred Acre Wood lot do not need this…And now they nearly all died and it’s Tigger’s fault. I. HATE. THIS. MOVIE. They also haven’t earned any of these emotional moments
B: AWFUL, AWFULLY AWFUL.
R: DREADFULLY DREADFUL…The Shermans wrote those awful song’s??!!