Article: 'Piglet's Big Movie' plot pooh-poohed

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Piglet and Winnie the Pooh "think, think, think" about the best way to build Eeyore a new home in Walt Disney Pictures' "Piglet's Big Movie."(PHOTO - Color) (ASSOCIATED PRESS/WALT DISNEY PICTURES)

If this film had been called "Slappy's Big Movie" and featured a bunch of anonymous cartoon characters, I probably would have disliked it and dismissed it as a bit of mindless junk. However, the film is called "Piglet's Big Movie" and it features Piglet, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and all the other creations of author A.A. Milne and, as a lifelong fan, I have to register my outrage and anger at this monstrosity.

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