The Tigger Movie (2000)
John Hurt: Narrator
Quotes
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[first lines]
[various shots of a live-action bedroom with the characters portrayed as stuffed animals]
Narrator : [narrating] Now this might be the room of any small boy. But it just so happens to belong to a boy named Christopher Robin. Like most small boys, Christopher Robin had toy animals to play with; and together, they had many remarkable adventures in an enchanted place called the Hundred Acre Wood.
[crossfade to a windowsill as the camera zooms toward it with Pooh as a stuffed animal sits next to a red hardcover book with "WINNIE THE POOH' inscribed on the front cover]
Narrator : [as the "Winnie the Pooh" book opens] But of all his animal friends, Christopher Robin's very best friend was a bear called Winnie the Pooh.
[Tigger in his animated form appears]
Tigger : [to the narrator; dismayed] WINNIE THE POOH?
Tigger : [closes the book] Wait half a darn minute! It seems to me that most of these stories are about that silly old bear!
[the narrator proceeds to "open" the book again; moving Tigger out of the way]
Narrator : Well then, Tigger. Who *should* this story be about?
Tigger : Well, I happen to know someone who's extremely fascinatin', not to mention handsome and debonair-y.
Narrator : But the title already says "Winnie the Pooh".
Tigger : Oh, that's easy to fix!
[the book falls over with Tigger still in it, but he props it back up again and uses various parts of the title page and the tree to create the film's title, "The Tigger Movie"]
Tigger : [Tigger notices that "Tigger" in the title isn't colored, so he nudges the book and "Tigger" becomes orange]
Tigger : [about the title of the movie] There, now that's a wonderful title! And speaking of wonderful things... woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
[Tigger does the Whoop-de-Dooper, Loop-de-Looper, Ali-Ooper Bounce into the book]
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Narrator : [Final passage of narration] But as it so happened, none of his friends had the heart to tell Tigger very much of anything anyway.
