Metacritic Film

Tigger Movie, The

Starring Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Ken Sansom, and John Fiedler

MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences

Walt Disney Pictures
Family/Kids
77 minutes | Color
USA / Japan
Released In Theaters February 11, 2000

Tigger decides that being the one and only can be kind of lonely. He begins thinking that there must be other tiggers somewhere out there begins an amazing journey through the Hundred Acre Wood in search of the "biggest and most gigantical" family tree around. (Walt Disney Pictures)

WRITTEN BY
Jun Falkenstein
Eddie Guzelian (story)
A.A. Milne (characters)

DIRECTED BY
Jun Falkenstein

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

53 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 New York Daily News
That there was no squirming among the kids at my screening may be the best recommendation of all.
75 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Both sophisticated and elemental enough for all ages to grasp the message.
75 Chicago Tribune Monica Eng
Disney has reinvigorated the Milne series while staying true both to his and illustrator E.H. Shepherd's original artistic visions.
75 San Francisco Examiner Mia Addiego
Sad but still bouncy.
75 Christian Science Monitor
Manages to seem fresh, funny, and original from start to finish.
75 San Francisco Chronicle
Fans have cause to cheer.
70 LA Weekly Nicole Campos
A gas, full of just enough whiz-bang animation, but not too much to ruin what has always made Pooh and friends -- adventures work in the past.
67 Austin Chronicle
A warm, comfortable, thoroughly inoffensive kidfilm.
63 Philadelphia Inquirer
A yawning affair that would be a perfectly fine video rental but doesn't really require the big screen.
63 Miami Herald Christine Dolen
Simple, endearing entertainment for the little ones.
63 Baltimore Sun Milton Kent
A plot that seems stretched for the big screen.
63 New York Post
The kind of sentimental, upbeat and inoffensive children's entertainment parents always hope their kids will like.
56 Mr. Showbiz
A pale imitation of the original Winnie the Pooh Disney shorts of the '60s, but a vast improvement on the current Pooh TV series and straight-to-tape specials.
50 USA Today
The story isn't a grabber.
50 TV Guide
Without question the breeziest viewing experience now available at a multiplex near you.
50 The New York Times
An adequate piece of children's entertainment, though it seems better suited for home viewing...than for the big screen.
50 Entertainment Weekly
A conflicted entertainment, compromised by trying too hard to impress the restless, self-referential adults in the audience.
50 Boston Globe Joan Anderman
If a long, chilly afternoon needs to be filled, The Tigger Movie won't hurt. But neither will it enchant.
40 Film.com
Exemplifies the subpar state of movies today.
40 Washington Post
Feels more like an overblown TV special than a grand theatrical release.
40 Chicago Reader
Somewhat depressive anecdote drawn out to feature length.
40 Variety
By far the least ambitious, and certainly the least interesting, animated feature to come out of Disney in quite some time.
40 Los Angeles Times Charles Solomon
Parents and older siblings...may grow impatient with the uneven execution that weakens the genuine charm the film sporadically exhibits.

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