Article: 'Piglet's Big Movie' pleases little ones

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\STLrave \STLadi Here's the bottom line on "Piglet's Big Movie," Disney's latest entry in the "Winnie the Pooh" series: There were lots of little kids at the screening I attended, and the movie kept them quiet very nicely. That's all parents will care about, and adults without kids are unlikely ever to see it.

I sat through it without wishing that I could get my time back, and that's more than I can say for many a grown-up movie. The film has some of the gentle, if sugary charm of the original books, and it has the winning Disney mix of music and cute creatures that, for reasons that totally escape me, the studio has been trying to get away from in its major animation ...

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