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Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Pooh's Heffalump Movie | |
| Rated: | None |
| Director: | Frank Nissen |
| Cast: | Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Nikita Hopkins, Kath Soucie, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen, Kyle Stanger, Brenda Blethyn |
| Genre: | Musical, Animation, Children |
By Lee Gardner | Posted 2/9/2005
The Winnie the Pooh crew takes on the War on Terror as that willy-nilly silly ol’ bear and his pals find evidence of fearsome heffalumps (think elephants) in the Hundred Acre Wood and Rumsfield stand-in Rabbit (voiced by Ken Sansom) urges a pre-emptive invasion of heffalump territory. Really, seriously, this is not mere alt-weekly snark—this movie is all about irrational fear of The Other, at least on one level. Of course, baby Roo (Nikita Hopkins) stumbles across baby heffalump Lumpy (Kyle Stanger, milking the cute Cockney-accented baby talk for all it’s worth), and each discovers that the other isn’t so scary or different after all, abetted by the usual Pooh formula of gentle slapstick, drier-than-average kid-flick humor, a few genuinely heart-tugging moments, and a handful of unmemorable but pleasant songs courtesy Carly Simon, reprising her composer role from 2003’s Piglet’s Big Movie. City Paper’s one-tyke age-appropriate audience sample loved it.