The wonderful thing about Tiggers (Tiggers are wonderful things) are numerable. They range from Tiggers' tops being made out of rubber to their bottoms being made out of springs, from their being bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy to their being fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. Perhaps however, the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is that Tigger is the only one. Rabbit is certainly most pleased that Tigger is the only one (imagine what Rabbit would do if he had to deal with more than one Tigger), but as we learn in The Tigger Movie, Tigger is not always happy being the only one. There are times when Tigger most definitely desires a whole Tigger-ific family.
Much of the film finds Tigger lamenting his lack of Tigger relatives and the rest of the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood, led by Roo, doing their best to mak
e Tigger happy again. They proceed in typical fashion for the animals from the Wood and end up solely making things worse before everything eventually works itself out again by the end.
The overall construction of The Tigger Movie is very reminiscent – purposefully, no doubt – of the original The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The film starts out live action in a boy's room with a very similar voiceover by an omniscient narrator. Additionally, the film does occasionally break the fourth wall, and from time-to-time flips pages in the book the audience is supposedly being read to from.
Similarly, several moments in the plot itself play off of moments from Poohs past – Rabbit gets angry at Tigger for his bouncing ways, homes are destroyed, and Pooh goes up a tree to find honey to name a few. Nothing plays out exactly as it has done before, but there are several moment s in the film when one will get the sense of déjà vu.
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