Pooh's Heffalump Movie

Pooh's Heffalump Movie

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Frank Nissen
Produced by Jessica Koplos-Miller
Written by Brian Hohlfeld
Evan Spiliotopoulos
Based on Characters created by A. A. Milne
Starring Jim Cummings
John Fiedler
Kath Soucie
Nikita Hopkins
Ken Sansom
Peter Cullen
Kyle Stanger
Brenda Blethyn
Music by Joel McNeely (score)
Carly Simon (songs)
Production
company
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release dates
  • February 11, 2005 (2005-02-11)
Running time
 68 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $20 million
Box office $52.9 million[1]

Pooh's Heffalump Movie is a 2005 animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, featuring characters from A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. This film features songs by Carly Simon.

Plot

Winnie the Pooh and his friends hear a strange noise and find a set of large, circular footprints in the Hundred Acre Wood. During the night, Tigger's house is damaged by what appears to be an earthquake. The friends believe that there is a heffalump in the woods. Rabbit organizes an expedition to go try to catch it. Roo wants to comes long, but the others tell him he is too young and small to go. Despite this, Roo slips out on his own in search of the heffalump. He finds one; a playful young creature named Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump IV - "Lumpy" for short. Roo is afraid of his captive at first, but the two quickly become friends and play.

After a while, Lumpy hears his mother calling for him to come home. Roo wants Lumpy to meet all of his friends first, and they head towards the Hundred Acre Wood. Lumpy hesitates, thinking that the "creatures" that live there are scary, but Roo reassures him. The Hundred Acre Wood is deserted, as everyone else is still out searching for the heffalump. Roo and Lumpy continue playing, making a mess of Pooh's house and Rabbit's garden. The two friends hear Lumpy's mother calling him again. They search for Lumpy's mother, but she is nowhere to be seen. Lumpy uses his trunk to call to her, but it doesn't work. After hours of searching, Lumpy assumes that they will never find her, and starts to cry. Roo consoles Lumpy with a song he learned from Kanga. Then, Roo gets an idea: they could go find his mother, and see if she can help Lumpy.

Meanwhile, the others return home to find Pooh's house and Rabbit's garden a mess. They conclude that the heffalump has invaded. When Lumpy and Roo are discovered, Rabbit thinks that Lumpy has captured Roo. He and the others chase Lumpy through the heffalump traps they set up earlier in the film. Lumpy evades the traps, but Roo gets caught in the last one as Lumpy escapes into the woods. Roo frees himself from the trap, and runs to find Lumpy stuck in a giant cage. Lumpy is upset and hurt, thinking Roo has lied to him about the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood being friendly. Roo tries to free Lumpy and apologizes for everything. Finally, Roo notices a rope at the top of the cage. He climbs up and unties it, freeing a very grateful Lumpy. Kanga, watching the two interact from behind a nearby tree, realizes that the heffalump is her son's friend.

Rabbit, Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet arrive and lasso Lumpy. Roo yells at them to stop. He and Kanga explain that Heffalumps aren't scary or mean. While Roo is explaining this, Lumpy stumbles and accidentally knocks Roo into a pile of giant, heavy logs.

Lumpy and Roo's other friends try to rescue Roo, but the logs are too heavy. Lumpy gets an idea, and tries call to his mother. After a few tries, he finally gets it right. Lumpy's mother comes and tosses the logs aside, freeing Roo. Lumpy's mother is very proud that he has learned how to call out to her. Roo's other friends realize that the "monster" they were all afraid of was just a mother looking for her baby. They apologize and befriend Lumpy and his mother. Roo and Lumpy get a little more time to play together before Lumpy has to go home.

Production

Heffalumps were first mentioned in the original Winnie-the-Pooh books. They appeared in a nightmare sequence - along with their fellow scary creatures, the woozles - in 1968's "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day." Though heffalumps and woozles have appeared in other Disney Pooh media, such as the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh TV show, this was the first theatrical film to feature a "real" heffalump. Lumpy's design is similar to the heffalumps seen in the 1968 featurette and the song "The Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps!" is in he same style as "Heffalumps and Woozles" from "Blustery Day."

This was the last theatrically released film to feature voice actor John Fiedler as Piglet. Fiedler died in 2005.

Cast

Songs

The Best of Pooh and Heffalumps, Too
Soundtrack album by Carly Simon
Released February 8, 2005
Length 33:34
Label Walt Disney Records
Producer Matt Walker, Carly Simon, Joel McNeely, Rob Mathes, Michael Kosarin
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

American singer-songwriter Carly Simon wrote five new songs exclusively for the film, and performed four of them.[3] "The Name Game" features Kyle Stanger and Nikita Hopkins, as Lumpy and Roo. On "The Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps!" Simon is accompanied by Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen, and Nikita Hopkins.[4]

Two songs from Simon's earlier soundtrack for Piglet's Big Movie are also included on the soundtrack, "Winnie the Pooh (Theme Song)" and "With A Few Good Friends", in which Simon is joined by her children Ben Taylor and Sally Taylor.[5]

The soundtrack also features one instrumental track entitled "The Promise" by Joel McNeely, as well as seven classic Winnie The Pooh songs written by The Sherman Brothers.

Track listing
  1. "Winnie the Pooh" - Carly Simon featuring Ben Taylor
  2. "The Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps!" - Carly Simon
  3. "Little Mr. Roo" - Carly Simon featuring Kath Soucie
  4. "The Name Game" - Kyle Stanger and Nikita Hopkins
  5. "Shoulder to Shoulder" - Carly Simon with The Heffalump Chorus
  6. "In the Name of the Hundred Acre Wood/What Do You Do?" - Carly Simon with The Heffalump Chorus
  7. "With a Few Good Friends " - Carly Simon featuring Ben Taylor and Sally Taylor
  8. "The Promise" - Joel McNeely
  9. "Heffalumps and Woozles" - Chorus
  10. "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" - Chorus
  11. "Up, Down, and Touch the Ground" - Chorus
  12. "Rumbly in My Tumbly" - Chorus
  13. "Little Black Rain Cloud" - Chorus
  14. "Luv-a-Bye" - Kira Small
  15. "Winnie the Pooh" - Chorus

Reception

The film made $5,805,559 in its opening weekend, a per theater average of $2,296 from 2,529 theaters, The film ended up with a final gross of $18,098,433 in North America. The film made $34,760,000 internationally, bringing the total worldwide gross to $52,858,433.[1] Reviews were generally positive, resulting in a "Certified Fresh" rating of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.[6]

Sequel

A sequel, Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie, was released direct-to-video on September 13, 2005.

References

  1. 1 2 "Pooh's Heffalump Movie". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  2. ↑ "AllMusic review". Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Carly Simon Official Website - Soundtracks". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database. "Pooh's Heffalump Movie". IMDb. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Piglet's Big Movie". Allmusic. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ Rotten Tomatoes. "Pooh's Heffalump Movie". Retrieved April 1, 2015.

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