Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)

When Roo sets off on his own into the Hundred Acre Wood, he discovers a friendly and playful Heffalump named Lumpy.

Director:

Frank Nissen

Writers:

Brian Hohlfeld (screenplay), Evan Spiliotopoulos (screenplay)

Stars:

Jim Cummings, Brenda Blethyn, Kyle Stanger

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Jim Cummings	...	Winnie the Pooh / Tigger (voice)
John Fiedler	...	Piglet (voice)
Nikita Hopkins	...	Roo (voice)
Kath Soucie	...	Kanga (voice)
Ken Sansom	...	Rabbit (voice)
Peter Cullen	...	Eeyore (voice)
Brenda Blethyn	...	Mama Heffalump (voice)
Kyle Stanger	...	Lumpy (voice)

Storyline

A Heffalump is heard trumpeting in the hundred acre woods. Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet are scared and rush to Rabbit's house for advice. Roo joins them and they all agree that Heffalumps are nearby after finding a huge footprint. They decide to set out on an expedition to catch the Heffalump. Roo is not allowed to come along because he is too little.

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Plot Keywords:

winnie the pooh character | animal character name in title | tigger character | kanga character | piglet character | 

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Taglines:

Heffa nice day.

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Mystery

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Certificate:

G

Did You Know?

Trivia

Of the latter-day Winnie the Pooh features, this performed the worst at the US box office (thus prompting the follow-up Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) to go straight to DVD). The film did considerably better in international markets.

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Goofs

Early in the movie, Tigger complains that his family portrait is ruined. The portrait appears to show two "adult" Tiggers each side of Tigger himself. However, in The Tigger Movie it was firmly established that Tigger has no family.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Winnie the Pooh: [narrating] This is one of my favorite once-upon-a-times, although I'm not quite sure which time it was once upon. But it had been so nice and summery in the Hundred Acre Wood and the sunshine was as warm as a blanket. And the streams were gurgling happily. As - as happily as a tumbly full of honey, hoo, which is very happy. But all that changed when... the stranger came.
[sound of heffalump trumpeting]

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Crazy Credits

The 1985-2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo fades into a cloud which resembles a castle.

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Connections

Follows Piglet's Big Movie (2003)

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Soundtracks

The Name Game
Music by Carly Simon
Lyrics by Carly Simon and Brian Hohlfeld
Performed by Kyle Stanger (as Lumpy) and Nikita Hopkins (as Roo)
Arranged by David Slonaker

User Reviews

100 Acre Wood gets a heavy handed lesson in judging books by their covers.

All in all, this is a movie for kids. We saw it tonight and my child loved it. At one point my kid's excitement was so great that sitting was impossible. However, I am a great fan of A.A. Milne's books which are very subtle and hide a wry intelligence behind the childlike quality of its leading characters. This film was not subtle. It seems a shame that Disney cannot see the benefit of making movies from more of the stories contained in those pages, although perhaps, it doesn't have the permission to use them. I found myself wishing the theater was replaying "Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger too", instead. The characters voices were very good. I was only really bothered by Kanga. The music, however, was twice as loud in parts than the dialog, and incongruous to the film.

As for the story, it was a bit preachy and militant in tone. Overall, I was disappointed, but I would go again just to see the same excitement on my child's face.

I liked Lumpy's laugh....

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 February 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Heffalump Movie

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$5,805,559, 13 February 2005

Gross USA:

$18,098,433

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$52,858,433

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures, Disneytoon Studios

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

DTS (Digital DTS Sound) Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1