Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974)

Director:

John Lounsbery

Writers:

A.A. Milne (stories)
Ralph Wright (writer)

Release Date:

20 December 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Short | Musical

Tagline:

It's all new, it's all Pooh, and it's THE BOUNCIEST!

Plot:

Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he get's Pooh and Piglet together to come up with an idea to get the bounce out of Tigger...

Plot Keywords:

Footprint | Narration | Ice Skating | Mother Son Relationship | Surreal

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Sebastian Cabot	...	Narrator (voice)
Clint Howard	...	Roo (voice)
Dori Whitaker	...	Roo (voice)
Paul Winchell	...	Tigger (voice)
Sterling Holloway	...	Winnie the Pooh (voice)
John Fiedler	...	Piglet (voice)
Junius Matthews	...	Rabbit (voice)
Barbara Luddy	...	Kanga (voice)
Timothy Turner	...	Christopher Robin (voice)

Runtime:

25 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

South Korea:All | Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | Finland:S | USA:G

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Trivia:

This featurette accompanied the theatrical release of The Island at the Top of the World (1974).

Quotes:

Tigger: Say, who are you?
Narrator: I'm the narrator.
Tigger: Oh, well, please, for goodness' sakes, narrate me down from here.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Winnie the Pooh & Christmas Too (1991) (TV)

Soundtrack:

The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers

Tigger and his bounces

This one is the third short of Winnie the Pooh and his friends. In my opinion, it is the funniest of all and just as good as the earlier 2 shorts. This one isn't simply the funniest, it is also the bounciest. This is full of classic humor and great fun! Yes, our friend Tigger bounces a lot here. He's full of surprises and he bounces to his friends when they less expect. He bounces to Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and Rabbit. However, he scares Piglet and angers Rabbit.

Rabbit, of course, likes Tigger as much as the others, but he doesn't accept very well Tigger's bounces. After Tigger causing the destruction of Rabbit's garden with his bounces, Rabbit decides to reunite Pooh and Piglet because he has a plan to "unbounce" Tigger. The plan consists in taking Tigger to the forest and leave him alone in a far place, so that he gets lost and stops bouncing.

But the plan doesn't work as they were expecting. Ironically, Rabbit, Pooh and Piglet are the ones who get lost in the forest and Tigger ends up finding them and bounces them, one by one. However, Rabbit is the one who feels depressed and humiliated after Tigger saying that «Tiggers never get lost».

Later, Tigger decides to go out with Roo to teach him his bounces. Tigger gets too excited and bounces until the top of a tree and that's when something hilarious happens: Roo feels fine, but Tigger is too afraid of heights, so much that he doesn't have courage to try to get out of that sticky situation. He even promises not to bounce anymore (without really meaning it, of course).

When he gets out of that situation, Rabbit makes him promise to never bounce again. Tigger leaves sad, but even Rabbit admits that he liked the old bouncy Tigger better. Tigger returns and bounces happy again.

These Winnie the Pooh's old shorts are real classics. Timeless and very charming. They also give us that "nostalgia" feeling about childhood and classic Disney.